WET S1000 Automatic Honey Extraction Line

01 · UNDER 10 % BETWEEN THE THREE

Which is why all three sheets are worth reading

With a single-digit percentage between models, comparing on price leads nowhere. What you compare is the real throughput and how each one fits your honey house.

This is the largest of the three. Its core is a horizontal centrifuge with pneumatic loading and unloading: while one batch spins, the next is being loaded. The cycle is 12 ± 2 minutes plus about 2 to fill, so the uncapper has to hold that rate or the bottleneck simply moves.

02 · SEND A SAMPLE OF YOUR FRAMES

It is the first step of manufacture, not a formality

It is not bought off the shelf: it is built to the measure of your frames. Before anything, you send the maker a real sample of your frame and your super, and with it they set the bar spacing, the chain pitch and the height of the uncapper.

That means lead times start when the sample arrives there, not when the order is signed. And it means later changes of format are not free: the machine ends up calibrated to what you sent.

03 · SUPER OR BROOD: IT COSTS RHYTHM

The honest explanation the sheet already carried

It takes 136 frames of 25 mm — standard half super — or 112 of 35 mm, the brood-chamber pitch. It can be set up for both, with one physical consequence: spacing the chain bars out to accept the taller frame leaves fewer support points and the advance has to be slower.

That is not a fault, it is arithmetic. If your priority is volume in three weeks, configure it for supers only. If you are going to renew brood comb or work dark honeys, the versatility pays. What you cannot do is decide afterwards.

04 · TWO MODULES CAN COME OUT

And that brings the final price down

The impeller pump with level sensor — which fills the settling tanks by itself — is optional: if you already have pumping, it comes out and is deducted. The same goes for the cappings melter: if you already handle cappings with a press or a spinner, it leaves the line and the budget.

They are the two modules most likely to duplicate what a growing honey house already owns. The core does not come out: pneumatic frame extractor, uncapper taking 12 frames at once, and centrifuge.

05 · AND ASSEMBLY IS €2,200 MORE

Along with the rest of the small print

The line can ship assembled or for assembly. If you want the maker to come and put it together, that is about €2,200 plus VAT on top of the machine.

The rest: 8 kW without the melter, 3 × 400 V with 24 V control, IP 54 and a working temperature of 2 to 35 °C. It occupies 700 × 240 cm and weighs 1,600 kg: measure the honey house and the access first.

06 · BEFORE YOU BUY

A frame sample, €2,200 of assembly and seven metres of honey house.