LCBA's Loaner Honey Extractor

LCBA has a 4-frame manual (hand crank) extractor that any member can borrow for one week. Contact a director at either board@lewiscountybeekeepers.org or secretary1@gmail.com to arrange a pickup time. The extractor is kept at the club apiary at 765 North Fork Road in Chehalis. This extractor has no legs, you need to place it on a sturdy table or bench that is high enough for you to place your collection container under the extractor’s honey gate.

Tools you will need: an uncapping knife or other uncapping tool; a food grade bucket or container (ideally something with a honey gate) to place under the extractor’s honey gate for extracted honey to flow into; a food grade container to collect cappings (honey will be extracted from the cappings so food grade container is needed); a strainer to strain wax and debris out of honey. This can be a strainer designed to fit over a collection bucket, or a strainer bag such as a paint strainer bag. If you plan to only strain one time, a 400 micron strainer or bag is ideal.

There is an electric extractor available for check out through Lewis County’s tool library. 

Go to www.mrctoolbucketlibrary.org for information. The tool library also has a honey harvesting tool kit you can check out that has a metal strainer, a honey gate, and uncapping fork and a capping strainer bag.