Subject: How A Wax Honey Press Works

Honey Wax Press Hot List!

Are you getting ready for honey harvest and processing

with Kenyan To Bar or Horizontal Bee Hives?

Hi Friend,

I have hand picked some our best honey harvesting and processing equipment for you!! These are all tuned to making your harvesting and processing simpler and more efficient when it comes to saving you time and producing more honey especially when beekeeping with Kenyan Top bar hives and horizontal hives and log hives!

A honey wax press is suited for crushing up to 10kg of honeycomb at a time using a vice system as you turn and twist the handle round it pushes the cork down and the plates then crush the honeycomb to allow it to escape from the bottom rim and run into your container or bucket below.

Once you have completed a load of beeswax and it is crushed, take the beeswax out and this can be cleaned further with a conical strainer overnight inside 2x food grade buckets - the bottom one having a hole cut in the lid to allow for the end of conical strainer to hang inside from the top bucket and allow the leftover 15% of the honey that remains to drip out...

Next, strain the honey using a stainless steel strainer or clean unused pantyhose. Then get it ready for bottling.

For bulk processing of Kenyan Top Bar style honeycomb, we also have an industrial wax press extractor which handles 50kg of honeycomb an hour. As shown at the bottom of this newsletter! Stocks are limited of this item**

HOW YOU HARVEST AND PROCESS YOUR HONEY EFFECTS PRODUCTION!

By ENSURING That You Harvest Well And Extract Honey Like this...

Avoid tainting your honey for your consumers by not over-smoking when you go to harvest the honeycomb from the Kenyan Top Bar, Horizontal hive or Log hive.

Use food grade buckets to collect and store the cut comb from the top bar frame while processing each of your hives in the apiary.

Test the moisture content of your honey before you extract it for bottling with a refractometer which should be set between 16-18.6% water.

A honey wax press or honey conical strainer is perfect as your method to extract your honey from the comb in order to filter it and bottle it as hygienically as possible and so that you customer has a fantastic end product!

Plus, make sure you recycle the beeswax comb once you have separated the honey from the comb which is now wet beeswax...

You have some options regarding how you can recycle or

reuse the beeswax after the process:

give it back to the bees - they will reuse it in the hive

make beeswax candles using cotton wick to sell

make swarm lure for attracting more colonies

The Honey Press Hot List!

Double Honey Strainer

Stainless steel double strainer for effective honey filtering and straining.

Expandable

ZAR 285.00

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Honey Gate - Plastic

Honeygate Tap

Plastic honeygate taps are used to help bottle honey from a bucket or other type of container. Our honeygates are yellow and made from plastic. They include the typical scissor action to help prevent leaks when pouring honey. Cut a hole in the bucket and place one half inside the bucket near the bottom. Place the other half outside the bucket or container. Screw them together and make it tight. Test it with honey or water. Make sure the seal is closed tight and the hole you cut out is at the lowest part of the bucket or container. Do not cut the hole bigger or larger than the diameter of the tap itself. The diameter of the honeygate tap is 40mm wide.

ZAR 224.00

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Manual Wax Press

Honeycomb wax press is a manual wax press machine for processing honeycomb and cappings from honey harvests not using frames. It is a manual wax press that requires corkscrew type manual twisting to make the vice move lower and higher to squeeze the comb so the honey can escape by way of crushing the comb and cappings. The honey then escapes down the sides and out the funnel at the front end. This leaves the beeswax behind and is about 85% clean of honey. Not all residue is removed using this process however it is effective. The beeswax forms a round shaped cake for further handling and processing. Run the honey through a double strainer which is a macro filter made from stainless steel into buckets and or settling tanks.

ZAR 3,010.00

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Nylon Conical Honey Strainer

Nylon Strainer Honey Filter

Mesh Nylon strainer honey filter with wire rim inlay that fits large buckets for filtering crushed honey comb. Looks a lot like a white witch's hat made from nylon and is great for straining honey when crushing the honey and not using an extractor. Nylon conical strainers are the perfect tool for when you are crushing the honeycomb and not using a spinner to harvest the honey. The Nylon Conical strainer or honey strainer filter works like a big tea bag keeping the beeswax inside and letting the honey drip through.

ZAR 145.00

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$Refractometers$

Refractometers

Refractometers

Moisture content is vital in determining the ripeness of honey as too much moisture leads to fermentation and degradation of the honey.

Where moisture is 16-18% the content is considered mature and the honey is ripe.

This unit is a mobile unit that can be used anywhere.

Refractometers are used to measure moisture content in honey for grading purposes.

ZAR 1,144.00

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Beeswax Extractor for Comb honey

Beeswax Extractor for Comb Honey

Beeswax Capping extruder - 50 kg/h

The beeswax extractor is designed to separate honey and wax by compressing the cappings. The rotating auger shaped shaft squeezes cappings against the perforated cylinder walls and causes the remaining honey to escape through the perforation and drain onto a tray below. Compressed wax is pushed out at the end of the device. Specifications:

Capacity up to 50 kg / h
Power supply 230V
Power 0,55 kW
Adjustable speed: max 14 RPM
Height: 98 cm
Width: 41 cm
Length: 105cm