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When the harvest comes in all at once and you have supers of different formats waiting their turn, the bottleneck is almost always the uncapping. This 125 cm bench is built for exactly that moment: a wide stainless-steel trough where you uncap frames in an orderly way, recover every last drop of honey from the cappings and — above all — work Langstroth, Dadant and Layens frames the same day without changing equipment.
Most uncapping benches are tied to a single frame format. This one has a repositionable cross bar that sets the support span to each hive: it leaves 48 cm as standard for Langstroth and Dadant US (American); slide it in to shorten it to 47 cm for the Dadant Blatt (European) and to around 36 cm for the shorter Layens frame. You switch sizes in seconds and without tools, so a single bench covers your whole apiary even if you run several formats at once.
The base has a filter grid where the cappings fall: the honey drains off by gravity and the sloped bottom guides it to the honey gate, ready to collect straight into a honey tank. You make the most of the honey clinging to the cappings —a lot at the height of the harvest— and save yourself a later straining, collecting it cold straight from the bench.
It comes with a support cradle to hold the frame still while you scrape with a knife or fork, and a spike bar to pin the frame and turn it one-handed while you uncap with the other. Two techniques on the same bench: use whichever suits the capping and your working pace.
The honey-contact surfaces are AISI 304 stainless steel (table and lid of 0.8 mm), with the frame and legs in 2 mm stainless: it stands up to warm honey, propolis and daily washing with hot water without corroding season after season. The parts come apart, so cleaning it at the end of the day takes minutes.
The wheeled legs let you move it around the honey house as you need, and the adjustable height fits it to your stature so you don't end up with a sore back after hours of uncapping. With the 125 cm trough you uncap several frames in a row before moving them to the extractor.
| Honey-contact surfaces | AISI 304 stainless steel — table and lid, 0.8 mm |
|---|---|
| Frame and legs | 2 mm stainless steel |
| Trough dimensions | 1250 × 540 × 460 mm |
| Frame compatibility | Langstroth · Dadant US · Dadant Blatt · Layens |
| Adjustable support span | 48 cm (Langstroth / Dadant US) · 47 cm (Dadant Blatt) · ≈ 36 cm (Layens) |
| Honey collection | Filter grid + sloped bottom to the honey gate |
| Frame holding | Support cradle + rotating spike bar |
| Mobility & ergonomics | Wheeled legs + adjustable height |
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