Honey Harvest

Frank's backyard beehive.

Two boxes of honey

Bee excluder - lets them out and not back in.

Mesh used for propolis collection - bees fill up gaps in a hive.

Boxes of honey in the honey plant.

Frank at work - honey extractor in background.

The honey extractor - Australian made.

Feeding the frames from the boxes into the capper.

Steam heated knives cut the wax cappings off the comb.

Capping knives remove the wax that seals the honey in.

Out the frames come ready for spinning.

Loading up the centrifuge.

The centrifuge takes 60 frames a load.

Runny honey comes out of the unti, is warmed up and filtered.

The honey filtering into the barrel

Thousands of dollars worth of manuka honey.