Honey Extractor Uncapping Needle Roller for Beekeeping tool

This gets the cells that are uneven and hard to use the hot knife on. In a Langstrof system. Minimal honey loss (the honey that flows down the frame) compared to the hot knife.You do have to roll the cells a few times, so it's not as fast as the hot knife.

This product is easy to use. Saves lots of the wax so bees can be gathering for honey instead of rebuilding the wax. Great for small hobby producers.

Just extracted a medium super, used this tool for most of the frames. The advantage over slicing off cappings is that all of the honey stays in the frame and gets extracted in the extractor, if you cut off cappings you're cutting off honey as well and you have to separate that honey from the cappings, which adds work and you lose honey. Also, you leave all of the cells in the frame at full height so it's less work for the bees to repair and rebuild. The cappings that I strained from 2 1/2 gallons of honey was about 1 cup. Not good if you're trying to collect wax, but very good if you want max honey yield. This is a tool for small volume/ hobby beekeepers.This efficiently punctures the cappings, but some honey and cappings get stuck to the tines and it's difficult to remove it. After 6 of 10 frames, I started to use a standard dining fork to scape the cappings off/ open, which was a little slower but did not collect cappings. 30 seconds per side, 1 minute per frame, not a lot of time. Extracted 100% of the honey with minimum wax to strain out. If you have only a few supers to extract, I recommend that you use a fork or capping scratcher. This roller is more trouble than it's worth relative to other methods.

I had never harvested honey before, and bought this on a whim because it seemed like a better idea than using a knife to cut the caps off of the cells.Used it for the first time on virgin honeycomb, and it worked extremely well. Since I have not tried the ‘traditional’ method of de-capping I cannot comment on whether the centrifuging time was impacted, or if I missed honey. Very little pressure required - just like painting with a roller. A child could do it. In fact, a child DID do it.I can say for sure though that this was very tidy. I did not have to deal with the ‘cut’ wax caps, plus handling the frames where the caps had been roll-punctured was easy (they did not drip at all, easy to transfer into the centrifuge).Seemed less impact on the honeycomb, but I will not know for sure until I open the hive again to see how the bees are doing with the repairs.

I've tried several types of uncapping tools. A serrated knife was always my fall back but it can wreck comb and slice deeper than I mean to. Not to mention cutting myself. I also switch to permacomb frames for my top box and those are entirely made of plastic, so going deep or gouging into the comb isn't an option. Anyway, this thing worked really well, did minimal damage to the comb and I extracted just as much honey as any other tool I've used. Would definitely recommend and would buy another if I lost this one. But it seems very sturdy and unlikely to break.Thanks.

I recommend going old school and just use the fork. This helped uncap mostly but after extracting there was still lots of honey stuck and the frames just became messy.

Save's me alot of time

The media could not be loaded.  This was our first time extracting honey and when I saw this tool I just had to try it!The tines perforate the wax cap and keep the integrity of the cell. We didn’t want to danage the cell or end up with a bunch of wax at the end and this tool was perfect for that!*inexpensive*easy to use*almost no wax waste (about 1/8 cup after rolling 18 frames)*cleaned it with boiling water after we were doneDon’t hesitate to try it!