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What equipment would be best for an operation that has 500 production hives ?
I looked at the Cowen line of extractors and setups, they are nice. 28 frame manual Cowen seems reasonable, except that is uses the 2 Jr spinners that I have heard so much bad about taking up too much time.
I don't want to heat the honey above hive temperature.
Anyone in the same boat as I am ? If so what did you decide and did it work out for you ?
Right now I only have a Maxant 1400 10/20 framer and the Maxant 600-3 Bottling tank. We will have over 200 colonies by the end of this summer and I intend on increasing 40-50% each year until I get my numbers to 500. There is high demand for blueberry pollination and I would like to have at least 300-400 for rentals and the other 100-200 for honey and nuc sales.
I looked at the Cowen line of extractors and setups, they are nice. 28 frame manual Cowen seems reasonable, except that is uses the 2 Jr spinners that I have heard so much bad about taking up too much time.
I don't want to heat the honey above hive temperature.
Anyone in the same boat as I am ? If so what did you decide and did it work out for you ?
Right now I only have a Maxant 1400 10/20 framer and the Maxant 600-3 Bottling tank. We will have over 200 colonies by the end of this summer and I intend on increasing 40-50% each year until I get my numbers to 500. There is high demand for blueberry pollination and I would like to have at least 300-400 for rentals and the other 100-200 for honey and nuc sales.