Post Flow-Hive harvest

[Kirsten_Redlich]

It is but I think as Dawn suggested try draining incrementally per frame, you must have had great amount of honey in the frames! Perhaps (if haven’t already) wash down honey spill outside hive, prevent robbing/pests.

@Semaphore

when harvesting honey: you can crack open the frames in increments to make turning the key easier. Also if you wait 5 minutes between increments you can reduce the likelihood of any honey leaking out of the bottom of the frames into your brood box. This reduces the volume and pressure of the honey coming out of the frames stopping it from ‘backing up’ and decreasing the possibility of a leak. This is especially important if any part of the frame is not fully capped, or if the honey is particularly thin.