Finally we got around to extracting our honey. First you have to uncap the honeycomb here I am having a go with an airgun to melt the wax but on balance I think slicing it off with a bread knife was more effective. Suzanne (my beekeeping partner in crime) Greg (her son who is doing beekeeping for his Duke of Edinburgh award) and my son Sam are operating the extractor. You can see how the frames fit into the extractor in the next picture and finally empting the honey out of the extractor into our honey ripener (plastic bucket). It was a very sticky business and we had lots of wasps for company. I think the boys enjoyed the wasps getting zapped by the insect machine more than extracting the honey. We had a great and productive morning.
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