4-Frame Honey Extractor with Integrated Uncapping Table LEGROC - 110 W Motor

The combined unit that eliminates the back-and-forth — uncap, pass the frame to the extractor, honey comes out the same gate.

🔧 Two stations, one unit, one day of work

The uncapping area (≈ 73 × 46 cm) has a central crossbar where you rest the frame to cut cappings with a knife or fork, and a grid to let the frame drain between passes. Honey drains by gravity into the shared tank; cappings stay on top to be separated later (melt them in a solar or steam melter —it's clean, first-grade wax). To the right, the 4-frame extractor (≈ 45 × 45.5 cm) with electric motor handles the rest. For 10-50 hive operations, you process a set of frames without changing station, stacking half-processed frames or chasing drips: one day, half the fatigue.

⚙️ Tangential system — why it protects the comb

The basket is tangential with a round-grid design, not radial. The mechanical difference matters: in tangential systems, each frame rests completely against the grid and is extracted one face at a time. This prevents comb tearing even with dense honeys like heather, eucalyptus or chestnut, which resist centrifugation. In a small radial extractor (same 4 frames), the comb suffers more because frames work without support and the centrifugal load is more aggressive. Tangential = frames that go back to the hive almost intact, ready for a second harvest without needing new foundation.

📐 Compatibility with frames up to 290 mm

The basket takes 4 frames up to 290 mm tall. That covers the common European formats: Dadant brood frames (27 cm), Langstroth (20 cm), Dadant supers (13 cm) and Langstroth supers, plus UK National and Commercial. Layens frames (35 × 30 cm) don't fit because they exceed the height limit. If you work with Dadant and supers —the most common Spanish and French migratory combination— both fit in the same basket without adapters: a single extractor for the full yearly cycle.

🍯 Veteran's tip — progressive speed with heavy honeys

With fluid honeys (spring multi-flower, sunflower, oil seed rape, orange blossom) you can go straight to medium-high speed. But with dense or high-moisture honeys (heather above all, chestnut, mature eucalyptus), the golden rule is progressive start-up: begin at 30-50 % of max for 2-3 min, rise to 70-80 % for 3-4 min, finish at max for 2 min. Two reasons: freshly worked comb is hot and fragile —a sudden start can tear it, especially on the first frame of the day— and dense honey needs time to come out in layers. Rule of thumb: if you hear vibration or see the basket wobble, drop speed. The extractor is well balanced but can't work miracles with uneven loads.

🧹 Food-grade stainless and lifespan — built to last

The whole body is food-grade stainless steel, safe for direct contact with honey, resistant to organic acids (formic, lactic) and residual propolis. Cleaning after the day: warm water and cloth, never pressure jets aimed at the motor or control panel. The plexiglass covers come off for separate washing. At the end of the season, disassemble the gate for deep cleaning and the legs to store the unit without hogging the honey house. With basic maintenance, working life easily exceeds 10 campaigns.