Sometimes a person just has to do things themselves. Getting bees this year ment a lot of new equipment and using a horizontal hive design ment that most equipment in the market place just didn't fit why non standard frame design. An extractor being one of the biggest investments a beekeeper can make, it just didn't make sense to drop a grand on a special extractor my frame size. So I designed and built one myself. I used fusion360 to create the design, my cnc router to machine out some parts. A little cutting, grinding and welding along with a few parts from Amazon got me an extractor that should fit my small apiary needs for under $200.

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