Extracting Resolutions

[Andrew Dewey]

When I extract next year some things are going to be different:

- I won't leave the extractor on the front porch where it can be knocked over and get dented.

- I'll find a way to wash/sanitize all my processing equipment ahead of time.

- I'll make sure my two teenagers are available for honey duty.

- I won't get all geared up to extract for a single super of nine frames.

- I won't extract in my home kitchen.

- I'll have everything ready for letting the bees clean up the cappings.

- I'll start extracting before eight o'clock at night.

Anyone care to add to the list...

[ August 04, 2006, 06:17 AM: Message edited by: Andrew Dewey ]

[power napper]

I won't drop the decapping fork onto my bare foot!
etc,etc.

[BillS]

Andrew,
It is just amazing how two beekeepers seperated by hundreds of miles can come to the same conclusions! Great minds work alike.

Bill Schaefer

[iddee]

I'll believe it when I see it. After extracting 1 super next year, and you remember this post, repost it and say "I am really going to go by it next year, I just forgot it this year." :D

[spacemoose]

i'll make sure it's not 100 degrees, i'll check the weather forcast a week ahead so it isn't raining when i get ready to take supers off i'll make sure i have enough jars on hand to bottle and i'll make sure i have the next day off from work !!

[margot]

I'll try not to get honey on EVERY doorknob in the house. I'll try not to spill so much honey on the floor that my shoes stick with every step.

[guatebee]

I´ll make sure I do everything I can at the right time to ensure the largest drop ever.
I´ll review my honey / pollen label designs and redo them to make better impact on customers.
I´ll make sure I have plenty of drawn comb so most nectar turns into stored honey.

[Michael Bush]

>I won't extract in my home kitchen

Where will you extract then? I've been doing it there for 32 years...

>i'll make sure it's not 100 degrees

Why? That's the perfect weather for extracting. The honey runs like water at 100 degrees. It doesn't move so well at 50 and moves only marginally well at 70 or 80F.

>I'll try not to get honey on EVERY doorknob in the house

How?

>I'll try not to spill so much honey on the floor that my shoes stick with every step

How?

[Andrew Dewey]

Michael - did you really mean to crush all our dreams? <vbg> Why, I can see the new honey house now, let me tell you about it...

Andrew

[ August 05, 2006, 01:07 PM: Message edited by: Andrew Dewey ]

[Michael Bush]

If I had a honey house I'd be in a totally different legal category...

[Grant]

I keep a stack of newspapers on hand. When I drip or drizzle some honey on the floor, rather than try and wipe it up, I cover it with a sheet of newspaper. The newspaper is not overly absorbant, but sufficient enough to cover the mess and keep me from tracking honey all over until I clean up the entire room.

Secondly, I prefer to pull supers during the afternoon, then extract after dark. The supers are still retaining the day-time heat and extract real easy, plus the evening hours are cooler and have fewer bees lurking around for a robbing episode.

Grant
Jackson, MO

[buz]

Michael--I still live in my honeyhouse. Everyone asks what will I do with it when I finish the big house. Is there a benefit from the health dept./tax folks to processing in the kitchen vs a stand alone facility?

[Michael Bush]

>Is there a benefit from the health dept./tax folks to processing in the kitchen vs a stand alone facility?

That depends on your state. There is with the FDA.

[John Cunningham]

I put broken/flattened cardboard boxes on the floor. They really soak up the drips. when I am done I have a big fire. The carpet shampooer finishes the clean up, works fine on concrete floor.