More pics of the Honey Barn

Yeah, the temp has already dropped 25 + degrees...It is working.



I am adding some more pictures of the honey barn. Which shows more pics of the equipment that we use. Also in the last couple of weeks when the heat was almost unbearable, the honey house temp was out of control. Temperatures were reaching 106-112 degrees. Uhggg! So we talked to a couple of local heating and cooling people in Huntington. We went with a Bryant heating and cooling system. Which is supposed to pull bacteria from the air and help with the high humidity. With the humidity being so high we were concerned about moisture in the honey. Wet honey is not good, we check the moisture content on all our honey coming in the door, similar to the farmer who checks his soy beans, wheat, corn and etc. So now $$$$ later and the humidity being controlled we have more comfortable employees and dry honey. So hopefully we chose the right system. We sure did appreciate the speed at which Huntington Heating and Cooling worked. We had several estimates from several local places on Thursday and 2 days later on Saturday our system was installed....AMAZING...I will keep anyone who is interested, posted on its efficiency, pros and cons. We had LP Gas heating our old honey room.

Going from left to right, the frames of honey are loaded onto the conveyor and then through the uncapper, and they are then placed in the holding area or put into the extractor to the far right which then spins the honey filled frames at a very high speed(centrifugal force)causing the honey to be pulled from the combs. Once it has been pulled from the combs it then drains to the white tube that you see in the bottom center of the extractor. It then goes into the tank where the wax particles will float on the top and the honey left on the bottom will then be pumped into the big holding tank that is shown in picture above. Then the honey is ready to be put in barrels as shown to the right.

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