El Camexican
08-08-2016, 07:02 PM
I told Joe I’d post these up.
My Grandfather build this 4 frame honey extractor sometime in the late 30’s or early 40’s. The barrel was commercially made, as well as a few of the nuts and bolts, but most of it was hammered out of hot steel and shaped with hand tools as they had no power tools on the farm.
My Dad saw it sitting at a private dump on his old neighbors farm while deer hunting a few years ago and brought it home. When my Dad stopped keeping bees a few years ago he donated it to a local museum where I went to take the photos on the weekend.
I think the coolest thing about it other than the quality of the galvanized barrel and old style chicken wire (which still looks like new) is that he transitioned a ¾” square bar down to about a 5/8” round bar with a hammer to make a shaft that would spin in that flat-bar hole (which was pierced by hand) and be threaded to take a ½” nut he must have taken from some other machine.
The wood seems to have held up well too.
No running to Home Depot for parts back then. :lol:
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My Grandfather build this 4 frame honey extractor sometime in the late 30’s or early 40’s. The barrel was commercially made, as well as a few of the nuts and bolts, but most of it was hammered out of hot steel and shaped with hand tools as they had no power tools on the farm.
My Dad saw it sitting at a private dump on his old neighbors farm while deer hunting a few years ago and brought it home. When my Dad stopped keeping bees a few years ago he donated it to a local museum where I went to take the photos on the weekend.
I think the coolest thing about it other than the quality of the galvanized barrel and old style chicken wire (which still looks like new) is that he transitioned a ¾” square bar down to about a 5/8” round bar with a hammer to make a shaft that would spin in that flat-bar hole (which was pierced by hand) and be threaded to take a ½” nut he must have taken from some other machine.
The wood seems to have held up well too.
No running to Home Depot for parts back then. :lol:
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