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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS => Topic started by: adamant on August 12, 2012, 12:32:46 am

Title: new addition to my honey house
Post by: adamant on August 12, 2012, 12:32:46 am

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Title: Re: new addition to my honey house
Post by: bernsad on August 12, 2012, 05:32:49 am

You can't post that here!
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Now I'm envious. :oops:

Title: Re: new addition to my honey house
Post by: hardwood on August 12, 2012, 09:07:34 am

Sweet! JP has an old chain uncapper that he bought off understudy two years ago at Bud3 (or was it Bud2??). I've been wondering how well they work. Keep us posted!

Scott

Title: Re: new addition to my honey house
Post by: AllenF on August 12, 2012, 08:03:55 pm

Sweet.   You have to run through a lot of frames with that now.   Video it for us.   :-D

Title: Re: new addition to my honey house
Post by: VolunteerK9 on August 12, 2012, 11:22:10 pm

Well hell...now I feel like I need one

May just have to settle for a maxant hive tool now

Title: Re: new addition to my honey house
Post by: danno on August 13, 2012, 08:58:38 am

I take it you load the frame and drop it through the chains with the handle.  Does it drop out the bottom at that point or do you bring it back up with the handle?  The thing I like about flail chain decappers is the knock off the burr and propolis and make all frames uniform

Title: Re: new addition to my honey house
Post by: adamant on August 13, 2012, 08:02:48 pm

Chain uncapper in action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3CWGhOT2jY#)

Title: Re: new addition to my honey house
Post by: danno on August 14, 2012, 09:20:53 am

Nice!!   These produce alot of wax so be ready for it.  You will also need away to let the cappings drip.   I wish I could convert my Cook and Beal decapper from drum knives to chains.  Every once in a while mine will eat a frame