Beekeeping Manual Honey Extractor Stainless Steel by Easibee FED350

Very happy with this. It's a SAF Natura Compatto with the drum and filter underneath. Delivery was very fast and the product is very nice quality. There are no instructions but everything is very straightforward and east to assemble. You'll need a hex key (I don't recall the exact side but it is fairly large)for attaching the handle grip. I've not had chance to test it with a honey crop yet, but everything is good quality and I'm sure it will work and last well. Especially considering some of the main beekeeping suppliers charge about this amount for plastic models.

easy to clean and having the combined strainer makes it so easy to extract honey in one go

Superb piece of kit, works well and filter is effective.

The media could not be loaded. Extraction was straight forward. The handle needs to be kept engaged whilst turning which took a little practise. I was pleasantly surprised that the drum did not dance all over the floor but remained quite static even with uneven frames. I was attracted to this extractor because it has the settling tank and filter as part of its design. I did refilter the honey and then return it to the bottom tank to settle and jar it from there, but I don’t think this was really necessary as the filter did a good job. The settling tank has a conical base making it easy to gather the last of the honey so little is wasted. I would have liked the honey gate to be less leaky, but that can probably be easily adjusted for next time. Removal of the cages was easy for cleaning. It looked brand new once cleaned.

Compared to what else is available out there, this product does represent very good value for money. Also, I did find another extractor which looked pretty much identical (wasn't a great photo on the site) which was indeed priced considerably more. Furthermore, the built in sieve and settling tank makes the VFM equation more compelling. Add to this the resulting ease of storage of an all in one package, and this unit makes a lot of sense. (Now £10 cheaper than when I purchased it at £210 in 08/2015)But does it perform? Yes, it does. The plastics used seem of good quality, and the steel is of a reasonable gauge and quality. Also, you don't have to expend a lot of energy to spin out the frames, so I can foresee getting many years of use of this (fingers crossed).Downsides? It is big, well certainly bigger than I expected. To be fair, this is my first extractor and I should have noted the dimensions provided. It now dominates a corner of my shed. The other downside was screwing in the valve into the settling tank. I really thought this was never going to happen, that the plastic valve was going to be completely cross threaded, and that I would have to return the product. Thankfully, I got there eventually, and the seal is very solid, but I can't help but feel that this should have been a lot easier to do.

this product might be very good, but my Easibee honey Extractor leaked and when bought to there attention they refused responsibility, this product is brand new and Leaked the first time we used it. this is a really bad response from Easibee

this is a great item ,extracts 4 frames at a time ,it as an initial filter under the spinner and before the storage part ,,so this is a fairly large extractor but a lovely piece of stainless ,not only this but at a price all home beekeepers can afford

Lovely engineering. Well made and performs very well. The filter at the bottom takes most of the cappings so doesn’t clog honey filters. Great but of kit.