Everyone knows that pumping is done in a honey separator. Modern beekeepers have long gone from manual honey separators, because it is very time-consuming and much longer in time.
Modern honey separators are equipped with an electric drive. They do all the most difficult work for the beekeeper. We just have to load the honey frames, press the start button, and wait for the honey extractor to do all the work herself.
The electric drive program is so arranged that it gains speed to the desired rotation speed, and the time timer turns it off in time. Then the rotation begins in the opposite direction and the honey frames are completely evacuated. After the beekeeper takes out the evacuated frames and loads a new batch.
There are hundreds of species of honey extracts, however All of them are divided into two main ones.it
- hordial
- radial.
From the name it is already clear that during the pumping out of honey in the first type of honey extractors, the frames are located along the chord, and in the second, along the radius.
It would be wrong to say that one type of honey extract is better than the other, both have their pros and cons.
- If the beekeeper supports families on the large Dadanovskaya frame 475/300, pumping it out in a radial honey separator is not possible. Honey is a heavy product and during pumping, the frame may break.
- And vice versa, if the beekeeper’s system provides a half frame 475/145 or a root frame 475/230, then it would be preferable to pump them out on a radial honey separator, since the capacity of the frames in it is greater.
During the acquisition of the honey extract, it is important to pay attention to such a factor as a frame space. After all, if it is small, well, say 25-30 liters, then during pumping, you often have to be distracted by draining honey, that is, do two operations at the same time.
In my honey extractor, a subframe of 200 liters. I can pump honey all day, and drain it only in the evening at the end of work. This is convenient as you don’t need to be distracted during the day.
Material used to make honey separators, also different.
- There is a cheap segment - the honey extractor drum is made of galvanized steel;
- Medium priced with aluminum sheet drum;
- The most expensive, of course, stainless steel.
I strongly recommend that beekeepers not save on this. Any metal that comes in contact with honey, be it knives for cutting timber, a table and a settling tank for printing, and finally the honey extractor itself, must be made exclusively of stainless steel.
And it doesn’t matter that you have only 10 hives. Beekeeping is addictive and you will definitely decide to expand, so do not save, but immediately get a good inventory.
