Just looking at the plans which are available in the "plans area" I can't figure out where the frames go and how do they fasten into it. Maybe once it's made, it becomes evident, but has anyone made this extractor?
Just looking at the plans which are available in the "plans area" I can't figure out where the frames go and how do they fasten into it. Maybe once it's made, it becomes evident, but has anyone made this extractor?
I haven't made it nor seen it, but my guess is that it is a tangetial extractor and you put the frames flat against the ouside of the drum and then flip them to do the other side.
I cannot see any point in making any more tangential extractors. The radials start at 9 frames now for supers (in these deeps must still be handled tangentially) and it does not appear to be any more difficult to make a radial than a tangential.
The radials are so much more convenient than the tangential extractors that I would never go back. I would give up all my deeps and go all-mediums before I would go back to using a tangential extractor.
Ox
Home-made extractors are a waste of time
and money that would be better spent
on buying a real one.
Home-made extractors have a failure rate approaching what one would expect with origami condoms, and are the most pointless
waste of hardware since someone bolted two
wheels to a pogo stick and called it a Segway. ^.^
Well some of us just don't have the same deep pockets as you. It takes a little bit of time to get to the point where your beekeeping equipment needs can be bought by honey sales alone.
I have seen many home made extractors that are on par with any one you could every buy.
I built the twenty frame extractor as seen on this site and I used it extensively for several years without a single failure.
Some years I was extracting 75 to 100 supers.
I know I could clean it up and it would work just as fine as ever. IIRC, it would be about 8 years old.
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