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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 5293" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>Honey shed layout is one of those things one never quite gets right .....but with time the Feng Shui works itself out and the flow of goods eases, making for a seemless day where boxes move from hot room to uncapper to extractor and out to storage in an easy rythmm.</p><p></p><p>It is also good to have heaps of space for slaves to move around the machines and pallets of boxes coming and going. </p><p>Our extraction plant has sort of got there, but could still be a bit bigger.</p><p></p><p>Boxes arrive from the field and are trolley jacked into the hot room through a sliding door. They exit through another sliding door straight to the uncapper and extractors.</p><p>Combs come out of extractors onto a sorting table and are replaced into either brood or honey boxes and stacked on pallets - 36 boxes to a pallet. They then exit the extracting room through another sliding door to box storage.</p><p></p><p>The hot room is heated by a large electric heater that blows hot air directly to the ground. At the other end of the room is a fan in large pipe that moves the hot air from the top of the room to the bottom. A thermostat halfway up the wall regulates the temp at 35c.</p><p>It is always an issue trying to heat the very bottom boxes on the harvest pallets, and in retrospect, some form of under floor heating would have been nice ...... water pipe from a boiler heated by an overshot wheel in the creek beside the shed ......</p><p>I always had a thought to make the whole operation hydro powered ..... </p><p>Next time !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 5293, member: 212"] Honey shed layout is one of those things one never quite gets right .....but with time the Feng Shui works itself out and the flow of goods eases, making for a seemless day where boxes move from hot room to uncapper to extractor and out to storage in an easy rythmm. It is also good to have heaps of space for slaves to move around the machines and pallets of boxes coming and going. Our extraction plant has sort of got there, but could still be a bit bigger. Boxes arrive from the field and are trolley jacked into the hot room through a sliding door. They exit through another sliding door straight to the uncapper and extractors. Combs come out of extractors onto a sorting table and are replaced into either brood or honey boxes and stacked on pallets - 36 boxes to a pallet. They then exit the extracting room through another sliding door to box storage. The hot room is heated by a large electric heater that blows hot air directly to the ground. At the other end of the room is a fan in large pipe that moves the hot air from the top of the room to the bottom. A thermostat halfway up the wall regulates the temp at 35c. It is always an issue trying to heat the very bottom boxes on the harvest pallets, and in retrospect, some form of under floor heating would have been nice ...... water pipe from a boiler heated by an overshot wheel in the creek beside the shed ...... I always had a thought to make the whole operation hydro powered ..... Next time ! [/QUOTE]
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