Pure honey
The honey harvest needs to be timed well and be done very quickly. When removed from the hive, the combs have a temperature around 34 °C and need to get into the centrifuge as quick as possible in order to be still liquid enough to escape the cells.
Gathering frames
The honey combs are build on specific frames which are mostly on the highest point within the hive and separated by a grid in order to prevent the queen bee to lay eggs within. Nevertheless sometimes it can happen that the combs contain a couple of breeding cells, which then need to be handled a bit more careful to be not destroyed during the decapping.
Decapping
The decapping is done with a kind of giant fork with really(!) spiky sharp ends. If a cell is full and reached a specific low level of moist, the bees will cap the cell with wax. In order to allow the honey to flow out of the cells within the centrifuge, the cap is removed with the fork
Centrifuge
The decapped honey combs are loaded into a centrifuge. There are also other ways of harvest, but this one allows to reuse the empty combs again for the bees to gather the summer honey. It is important to balance the load equally on each side within the centrifuge and start slowly. If used wrong, the combs within the centrifuge can get destroyed and the bees need to invest again a lot of time and energy to fix or rebuild them.