Innovative Honey Extraction Gear in NZ

Using this alongside the Box Cracker™ Tool, you have the ability to put bee escapes on your hive without even taking your honey supers off!

Takes up to 40mm thick Bee Escapes

Check out the video below which shows it in use.

Made inhouse from top quality materials and protected with a durable powder coating.
This tool is built to last and will save you or your team hours of back breaking work.

We all know how hard bees make it to get supers apart! Their propolis and wax sticks everything together like its glue. Getting supers apart can prove a challenging task. but not anymore with Beequip's latest release - The Box Cracker™!

After many Beekeepers requesting a tool to help with harvesting honey, we have developed the Box Cracker™. This is a tool that will make breaking honey boxes apart so much easier, and not only that, we made a Escape Tool to match it so you can put a bee escape on without even lifting the honey supers off.

It can be quickly adjusted to suit 6 different lift heights

Go to the Box Cracker™ Escape Tool Here

Check out the action video below!

Made in house from top quality materials and protected by a durable power coating.
This tool is built to last and will save you or your team hours of back breaking work.

This 6 Frame Reversible Extractor is a powerhouse of extraction with a programmable three-phase inverter motor for total control, enabled by a simple speed controller and digital readout. Its 304-grade stainless steel and clear lids are solidly constructed, and it has over 100 settings for flexible operation. An ideal choice for speedy extraction with reliable, consistent results.

A simple speed controller with a digital readout of revolutions and with forward/reverse buttons, gives you accurate control on the extraction and keeps it consistent. Read outs on the voltage, amps and hertz are also available.

The inverter motor is three phase with the the control unit converting the single phase input to three phase in order to have full control of the motor. With over 100 settings, the controller is very flexible if needed otherwise it operates as a simple straight forward extractor.

Check out the Instruction Manual Here 

The machine is made from 304 grade stainless steel and has clear lids.

Approx dim when assembled: W780x880Lx1150H

The distance from honey gate to floor when the legs are fitted is 310mm.

Requires a std single phase 240v power supply.

1. View video here. 
2. Ensure honey in the frames is warm enough. Straight off the hive is usually okay if the weather is not too cold and the bees have been brushed or blown off the frames. Otherwise, leave in a small warm room at around 28 degrees C for 48 hours.
3. Clean equipment before use.
4. Uncap frames as shown in video.
5. Use frames of similar weight on opposite sides to reduce vibrations.
6. Run extractor at about half speed to get half the honey out of the first side. If the frames have wax foundation and you go too fast, the weight of the honey on opposite side will damage the comb.
7. Turn frames around and spin honey from other side. Depending on honey type and temperature, one pass may be enough on second side or it may need to be done with 2 passes. 2nd pass can be faster than the first.
8. Shift frames back to first side and extract remaining honey with a slightly faster speed.
9. Let the honey flow out of the extractor through a stainless steel double strainer and into food grade honey pails with honey gates at the bottom.
10. Leave the honey pail in warm place for 2 days to allow any wax residues and air bubbles to go to the top.
11. Then you can decant beautiful pure honey out of the honey gate at the bottom into polyjars, or similar.
12. The wax cappings can be left to drain over a grid like a stainless steel queen excluder. (Leave in a warm place to allow maximum honey to drain from the wax.)
13. The drained honey can be poured through a honey strainer. (Repeat steps 9 – 11.)

Introducing our top-of-the-line honey tank, designed with the beekeeper in mind. With a capacity of either 50kg or 100kg, this tank is perfect for honey extraction and processing, no matter the size of your harvest.

Crafted from durable stainless steel, our honey tank is built to last and is easy to clean. It comes with a lid to keep your honey clean and free from contaminants during storage and transportation. Additionally, the honey gate included with the tank allows for easy and mess-free dispensing into jars or other containers.

But what sets our honey tank apart are the two full size large filters included with each purchase. One filter is coarse and the other is fine, providing maximum filtration to ensure that your honey is free from impurities and debris. This ensures that your honey is of the highest quality and purity, making it perfect for consumption or sale.

This honey tank is the ultimate solution for efficient and hassle-free honey extraction and processing. With its sturdy construction, lid, honey gate, and two full size large filters (one coarse and one fine), it is the perfect tool for beekeepers who demand the best for their honey.

Top strainer is about 940 Micron
Lower strainer is about 500 Micron

Dimensions:

50kg Approx. 390mm wide x 530mm high (including handle approx 35mm high)

100kg Approx. 390mm wide x 780mm high (including handle approx 35mm high)

201 Grade Stainless

This large 304 grade stainless steel heated tank makes it nice and easy to liquify crystallized honey, or wax or anything that requires gentle heat!

The tank has an outer jacket which is filled with water or oil. The electric element heats the liquid in the outer jacket directly to provide a very safe and even heat to the contents inside the tank.

There are two size options to choose from: 
- 80 Litre
- 100 Litre

The tank can be heated close to 90 degrees. The tank has an outlet at the bottom. A ball valve comes as standard. You can also fit a honey gate, sold separately here.

The unit has an accurate and easy-to-use thermostatic controller. Adjustable from 30°C to 90°C where you set upper and lower limits. Simply set your upper and lower limit and the element will maintain the temperature between that setting. Once the jacket has heated to the desired temperature, the thermostat only supplies power to the heating element as it is needed to maintain the correct temperature.

Dimensions:- Both tanks are 510mm diameter plus any of the fittings on the side.  Height to the top of the tank:
80 Litre - 630mm.
100 Litre - 700mm

230 volt, 2000 watt.