Learn the Basics of BeeKeeping

BeeKeeping is like any other Profession, you get out of it what you put into it.

A typical Summers day, during the Harvest season, for a Beekeeper will start as follow: 

Honey in most BeeKeeping operatons is extracted from its combs in the morning. The taking of honey from the actual bee hives is done in the afternoon because that process requires warmer temperatures.

Every Beehive usually has 1,2 or 3 Boxes on top of it where bees will put honey that the Beekeeper will collect from. Each Box usually contains 8 frames of comb in which the honey is stored.

When the Comb in the Frames is full of ripe honey the Bees will cap it over with a layer of wax, its thier way of storing it for later use. These Cappings over the Comb must be removed before the Honey can be extracted out, and that is the job of a machine called an UnCapper(above). The Capped frames enter the machine on the left where they pass through cutters which trim a thin layer of comb off along with the Capped portion. The cutoff wax and cappings along with a little honey fall into a holding tank directly below the UnCapper. The Frames emerge on the right with the Cappings removed ready to be placed into the Extractors.(below)

The Frames full with uncapped honey cells are placed into the Extractor, as seen above. 84 Frames fit into this Extractor. The Extractor is then turned on where it gradually spins faster and faster forcing the Honey out, due to Centrifical force. The Honey then flows out the bottom into the same holding tank that the cappings from the UnCapper fell into.