| This is the uncapping tub that catches the wax cappings when you slice them off with the uncapping knife. It is two parts -- the top catches the wax and and has holes in it to allow the honey that came with it to drain into the bottom. |
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| Close-up of the caps. Later this week I'll need to build a solar melter to melt all the wax into a single ball for later use. |
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| And here's the first pour. The honey bucket holds 5 gallons and in bee-speak it is called a "sixty". One gallon of honey weighs 12 pounds (water = 8 pounds) and thus 'sixty pounds'. The honey you see here is being held back temporarily by a 600 micron filter and then underneatht that filter there's another one at 200 microns. This is done to catch the little bits of wax that come off the frames during the spinning in the extractor. |
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| I figured, what better way to clean up the excess honey on all the equipment than to put it out for the bees to clean. I put the straining filters out last night. When I left to go to the store, there were about 50 bees all sucking up the excess. Since that plan was working I thought I'd put the bottling bucket and the honey super out as well before I went to the store. I came back to this scene. |
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| The bottling bucket is completely clean now. Elapsed time: 37 minutes. |
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