Now we come to the real point of beekeeping - when you reap the rewards of the girls hard work.
Hive World carries a range of equipment to make this job simpler and less messy.
For the Hobbyist:
- Our useful uncapping tray holds the frame at an easy angle to allow the honey to drain into the large capacity tank.
- Slice the cappings off with either our electric or serrated uncapping knife.
- Otherwise you can prick the comb with our uncapping roller (the best way with manuka) or use a capping scratcher. This handy tool is also useful for checking brood health.
- The latest aid is the turbo-pro uncapper. This nifty tool tidily removes the cappings with the minimum of waste but the maximum of efficiency.
For the small Commercial Operator:
- 20 frame uncapping tank with an optional vertical electric uncapper
We have several different options in stock to take the effort out of extracting:
- Electric Extractor - 4-frame tangential and 8-frame cassette (self-turning)
- 4-Frame Electric extractor complete with uncapping tank
- Manual Extractors - a 2-frame and a 4-frame model
After extracting:
- A strainer is essential for removing bee bits and wax from your honey.
- The nylon cappings strainer is useful for purifying the wax when melted as well as getting the dregs of honey out of your wax cappings. It is easy to hook this useful aid into your extractor and give it a whirl to speed the process up.
- 20L Pails with lid and honey gate are perfect for storing honey.
- Stainless Steel Honey Storage (settling) tanks with strainer and stainless steel honey gate from 50kg to 225kg manufactured by Civan in Turkey.
- We stock nylon and stainless steel Honey Gates as well as the Original Robinet Perfection honey gate from Thomas Apiculture in France which gives a very clean cut off with no drips.
20 litre pail with optional honey gate
$18.26 – $24.78
Hive World’s 20 litre food grade poly pail comes with sealable lid and the option of a honey gate. Easy to hold handle with plastic bail for good grip.
Great to store your honey in till you are ready to process it. The honey gate makes it easy to empty the full pail without unnecessary lifting.
See our pail perch for a nifty way of emptying your pail completely.
These food-grade plastic pails are made in New Zealand.
70L Heated Honey Tank
$639.13
Hive World’s 70 litre Honey Tank with heater is a great way to warm your honey gently ready for bottling. This tank is also useful for separating wax cappings from honey. Also can be used for soap making.
Thermostatically controlled water jacket ensures your honey is not overheated.
This tank can be turned into a creamer/mixer by adding the mixer kit https://www.hiveworld.co.nz/product/honey-mixer-creamer-adjustable-to-suit-a-range-of-tank-sizes/
Cappings spin dryer
Spin dryers are the preferred alternative to the cappings screw press.
Cappings are the only product not to go through the normal extraction process so using a Cappings Spin Dryer will ensure you extract the maximum amount of honey possible from your cappings: 100kg of extracted honey should only leave 2 kg of dry cappings. Very easy to use, you simply put it next to your uncapping tank or machine, open the lid and tip the honey loaded cappings into the basket, shut the lid, turn it on (the machine self-stabilises) and turn it off when the honey flow stops.
After a day of extraction, the honey house is clean and the wax is available to melt down later.
With the spin dryer the wax is not broken up into micro pieces saving you from needing extra filtration.
This model is the ideal machine for enterprises of up to 100 hives. It can take up to 10 kg of cappings.Please Note: Larger models are available.
Contact us for more details.
Delivery will be 4-6 weeks ex France. POA
Honey Creamer/mixer
This universal honey creamer/mixer will fit a large range of honey tanks to help you process your honey. It has adjustable brackets to take tanks with diameters of 350 mm to 550 mm and we manufacture the paddle to suit your tank size. 24RPM and with a 0.37 Kw motor.
Talk to us about your requirements. Pricing will depend on your tank mixer size.
All Stainless steel construction. Tank shown also available as a separate item
Honey gate valve
$7.80 – $8.70
Hive World now stocks two sizes of plastic honey gate:
The HCM-HG-1 honey gate has an outside diameter of 44 mm and an inside diameter of 37mm while the Italian style HCM-HG-2 has a 48mm outside diameter with a 40mm inner.
You can turn any container into a honey container with one of these easy to install economical additions.
