4F Manual honey extractor IBIZA Swing Cage

01 · REVERSIBLE: NO HANDLING

And over a day that is a lot of sticky hands

The cage swings on its own when you reverse the spin, so the frames go in once and come out extracted on both faces. Over an afternoon of four supers that is forty handling operations you do not do, without dripping honey across the floor.

That is the practical difference from the fixed tangential machines in our range, which cost between 300 and 500 euros. The premium here buys time and comfort, not capacity: it is still four frames.

02 · ONE FACE AT A TIME, IN ORDER

Because emptying one side fully blows the comb out

The order matters and is almost never explained. If you extract one face completely while the other is still full, the weight of the remaining honey has nothing holding it and the comb breaks against the cage, above all on wax drawn out this same season.

The rule is: spin gently and take only part of the first face, reverse and extract the second fully, then reverse again to finish the first. And always build speed gradually: starting hard is how frames get broken.

03 · TANGENTIAL OR RADIAL: CHOOSE

Because for less money there are radials of twelve and twenty

It is worth knowing before you buy: our range has manual radial extractors of 12 and even 20 frames for less than this one costs. A radial extracts both faces at once and needs no reversing at all.

The trade-off is that a radial is gentler and works best with well-drawn super frames. A tangential presses harder on the face it is extracting, which is why it is still the choice for dense honeys and irregular comb. Tell us what frame and what honey you handle.

04 · 40 MM TAP, THE HOUSE LINE

And cages of 248 by 415 millimetres

The tap is 40 mm plastic, the inch-and-a-half calibre usual in small installations: it connects to filters and maturers of that line without adapters.

The four cages measure 248 × 40 × 415 mm each and take Langstroth or half-super frames. Measure your frame before ordering, because 415 mm of length is tight for a Langstroth. It comes with clear plastic lids and removable legs.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Four frames and a hand crank.