Honey Extractor Uncapping Needle Roller for Beekeeping tool

Worthy of a review! This was my first harvest ever and I only had thirty medium frames to process. With that said however I have to say that this worked FAR better than anticipated based upon some of the reviews I read. I did all thirty frames in a row without cleaning the tool in any way in between. It didn’t “gum up” at all and did a great job piercing all cappings such that the extractor was able to get every last drop of honey. My honey was at an average moisture level of 16%, so it’s not like I had particular runny honey or any reason it would have been easier for me. I also very much appreciated the complete lack of mess and the fact that all wax was preserved and returned to my bees. It pierced the cappings and, of course, left a tattered appearance to the cells. The honey came directly out of the extractor and passed through a two stage, bucket mounted, strainer one time and yielded perfectly strained honey without any further filtering of any kind. After finishing I placed my supers back out on the hives and, without exaggeration, I went out just 18 hours later and removed the supers to find that my bees had cleaned and perfectly repaired any and all comb damage. Looked like brand new perfect comb! Ready to begin filling again. I never touched my decapping knife once and at this point I have no reason to believe I’ll ever use anything other than this simple tool for decapping. First harvest of 44.5 pounds of beautiful, dark, delicious honey officially in the books!

I use this to prick holes in berries and grapes for freeze drying. Works better and easier to clean than the metal one I had.

Much less mess and wax clots clogging my strainers. As someone who doesn’t want a lot of wax to reclaim this roller has been great! Makes uncapping a much easier, quicker, and less messy process. Decent quality has a few flaws but for the money you can’t beat it.

Just extracted a medium super, used this tool for most of the frames. The advantage over slicing off cappings is that all of the honey stays in the frame and gets extracted in the extractor, if you cut off cappings you're cutting off honey as well and you have to separate that honey from the cappings, which adds work and you lose honey. Also, you leave all of the cells in the frame at full height so it's less work for the bees to repair and rebuild. The cappings that I strained from 2 1/2 gallons of honey was about 1 cup. Not good if you're trying to collect wax, but very good if you want max honey yield. This is a tool for small volume/ hobby beekeepers. This efficiently punctures the cappings, but some honey and cappings get stuck to the tines and it's difficult to remove it. After 6 of 10 frames, I started to use a standard dining fork to scape the cappings off/ open, which was a little slower but did not collect cappings. 30 seconds per side, 1 minute per frame, not a lot of time. Extracted 100% of the honey with minimum wax to strain out. If you have only a few supers to extract, I recommend that you use a fork or capping scratcher. This roller is more trouble than it's worth relative to other methods.

I love this roller it works great for me, it pierces the cells and the honey drains out quickly in the extractor.

I recommend going old school and just use the fork. This helped uncap mostly but after extracting there was still lots of honey stuck and the frames just became messy.

Like this roller.

I had never harvested honey before, and bought this on a whim because it seemed like a better idea than using a knife to cut the caps off of the cells. Used it for the first time on virgin honeycomb, and it worked extremely well. Since I have not tried the ‘traditional’ method of de-capping I cannot comment on whether the centrifuging time was impacted, or if I missed honey. Very little pressure required - just like painting with a roller. A child could do it. In fact, a child DID do it. I can say for sure though that this was very tidy. I did not have to deal with the ‘cut’ wax caps, plus handling the frames where the caps had been roll-punctured was easy (they did not drip at all, easy to transfer into the centrifuge). Seemed less impact on the honeycomb, but I will not know for sure until I open the hive again to see how the bees are doing with the repairs.

This is an awesome, time saving device. Highly recommend