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Oishin, it is a product for the American market, where they predominantly use Langstroth hives and frames. Looking at the geometry of the rollers, the "cutting blades" run the length of the two rollers but fit between the sidebars of all the frames being uncapped. Our British National hives have a shorter frame geometry which would mean the blades roll up the sidebars, not between them. This would explain why "standard" or straight sided frames get uncapped, and why the bottom section of a Hoffman frame would work but as the Hoffman shoulders are wider it would keep the blades away from the capping wax as they approach the top bar. If i am correct then the answer is to reduce the number of blades to fit a National frame.

@@martingodet9382 Excellent point Martin. I have raised this issue with the manufacturers, who have ignored it. I would like them to acknowledge it on their website so people would not buy it when it does not work with their frames. The issue is not that the British National or British Commercial frames do not work with it - as long as they are straight frames and the width is sufficient, it should work as designed. There are Langstroth Hoffman frames available as well and it would not work with them. Even if the blades were limited to the width of the foundation excluding the side frames it would not work as the wider sections of the Hoffman frame sides would still force the rollers away from the foundation meaning that the top halves of the foundation would not be touched so a complete re-design would be needed to accommodate non-straight/parallel frames. About 30% of my frames were straight and it works well. This issue is Hoffman frames. For those who do not know, Hoffman frames (an American design) have self spacing 'shoulders' built into the shape of the frames meaning that the sides get wider towards the top. This shape simply will not work with the SHF capper and playing with the width will not effect it. t is simply a `100% fail and the manufacturers owe it to their potential customers to clearly state that This capper is unsuitable for Hoffman style frames or other frames where the side bars are not straight and parallel". I eventually disposed of mine at considerable discount on E-bay having made sure the purchases was aware of this. It's just basic courtesy as well as good business practice.

@@somersetbees2587 i'm sure there is a design solution to this

I've made on e that works for the UK National frames - www.youtube.com/@TheNationalUncapper

@@somersetbees2587 i went ahead and designed on for National frames. It is now on sale: www.youtube.com/@TheNationalUncapper

If using Hoffman frames, it won't work. Only works with straight sided frames. Also, not too happy with BN frame sizes but seems to work well with non Hoffman langstroth frames.

@@oisinhanrahan9106 I've decided to make a prototype that works on Hoffman and National frames. please contact me! i'd like to see the SHF version - will buy it off you and make a working one for you?

@@oisinhanrahan9106 there is a new one available on the market in the UK. I designed it after reading your comments. www.youtube.com/@TheNationalUncapper

They're machined billet aluminum. That's where the price is coming from.

What value do you put on your time? My target is 150lbs honey per hive and I sell 1 lb glass jars with fancy labels for $15ea from my front porch. Doesn't take much to earn $400. And if it saves time--both uncapping AND processing less cappings, that's time I can use to make up salable nucs or play with my kids or whatever. Even with only a couple hives, you'll do better thinking from a business perspective. That said, I trialed this machine in 2019 and gave it back. I have too many inconsistent frames--both fat shouldered and the skinnies next to them. I ended up having to hand-pick the low spots and wrestle the thick shoulders through this machine. So I'm back to the toothed hand plane, which is pretty fast but still not fast enough. I'm convinced there's no perfect tool, due to inconsistencies in the drawn comb itself....but I'm still on the hunt! Best, @HoneyOnWales

@@drewt3210 $15 per 1 lb jar? You must live in a very different area than I do. 1 lb of the same stuff in my area can't fetch more than 8 bucks for a 1 lb jar. If you're not commercial then you're doing it for the fun of it, not to produce as much as you can. People don't pay that kind of money for honey around here when they can get local raw honey at Sam's club for $6 per jar! It would be stupid to do so.

@@MasterKenfucius True. I actively choose not to have Sam's Club clientele. Just as my commission furniture clients are not IKEA customers. I seek out and find clients who appreciate quality over quantity. I'm a farmer and an artist, but I will not be a broke farmer nor a starving artist. If you believe you can't charge a Fair Trade price, you're not only hurting yourself, you're hurting the industry. Even if we're "just hobbyists," we have a responsibility to educate the public as to how labor actually goes into producing honey. Stand up for ourselves and get paid a living wage--we darn sure earn it!

@@MasterKenfucius Send samples of your honey from your hives and samples of "Local Raw" honey from Sam's to be analyzed at Texas A&M's bee lab, which is the only U.S. lab currently doing pollen analysis. I guarantee they're not the same product. I'm not sure where you live. I'm in Charlotte, NC. I hear fellow local beekeepers say they could never charge what I charge. Well if they believe that, they never will. I've only had two customers question my price. I invited both to come work bees with me in July. After about an hour, both tapped out and said I'm giving my honey away at $15/lb and that I should charge $100/lb for the hard work that goes into it! Those two "Gentlemen" are now my best advertisers. I've no idea how many customers they've sent my way! It all starts with education, my friend. I'm pulling for you.

@@drewt3210 You're preaching to the choir my friend. I know that my honey is not the same as other people's honey. I'm the hobbyist who puts nothing bad in his hives and who actually lets the bees feed with their own honey in the winter and give them no sugar water. I don't get 150 lbs per hive. I get half of that from not exploiting them. I don't really know your area, but here it's supply and demand, plain and simple. Local beekeepers announce their harvest on the local internet groups and it hardly sells. You can spend a lifetime looking for the elusive customers you're referring to and you'll never find them either. I'm not in it for the money, so it doesn't really make sense for me to go looking for customers. My regular job is too profitable for me to worry about profits from honey, and I sell it so I don't have to put it in a bucket and store it in a closet forever. It would be the same as me charging $10 for a banana because that's what it cost me to grow it. It already gave me $10 worth of happiness, so I'm ok with giving them away.

Westernwilson We absolutely love our decapper! It takes a few minutes to uncap frames, throw them in the extractor, & get the liquid gold flowing. We definitely still recommend this unit!!!🐝

youtooclash lmao Thank you! We really appreciate it!!

Brandon Tai The bees clean the frames up great!! 🐝

Ours got here Friday. Since then we've extracted 15 supers. It works good. You can load it with just a couple frames, six, twelve, or twenty. The only drawback is deeps. It won't quite extract the bottom rows of a frame if it's deep. Too close to the center. It's not nearky as loud as the videos make one believe. The whining dc motor noise is kind of like the sound effect on star trek. I like it. It will run on a 12-volt dc power supply or a battery. That'd be handy if ever set-up to be mobile beekeeping.

Mine is still attached to the shipping pallet. The wife and I can pick it up and move it easily. It's not heavy but is big. About 50 pounds.

just got mine last week shipping to Iowa was 234$

Wow, we were able to score $100 from Bluesky for two shipped freight to a local terminal. However, they were the last two of the model 230's. Did your Lyson have a pulse modulation motor? Ours does. And, the high pitch sound is something we are going to have to live with. It's a characteristic of this type of motor. You can hear the motor in my last video posted.

Diggin with Dave actually the high pitch noise is from the PWM pulse width modulation of the power from the drive, the motor makes the noise but it is because of the the type of speed controller. This does not mean that it is inferior, to the contrary this is how most all newer high quality drives are made , AC or DC PWM is the new standard. I am kind of a drive guy, that noise is the norm for today's drives,in typical industrial environment it is so noisy you never hear it.

I thought I was the only one. I thought all the dogs in the neighbourhood would be barking!

Thats not what it means. The extractor is manufactured in Poland, China ...lol

Anatoliy walker it spins forward only since it is radial. It works great and makes extracting honey a breeze.

Bee Lovin' Farm and Apiary Will 51/2" supers work in this unit

Mike Mabry are you referring to shallows? If so yes, they will work.