The past two days I spent extracting honey from bees. On Monday I was helping my cousin extract her honey and on Tuesday my cousin helped me extract honey. This process was amazingly fun and we all got covered in a whole lot of honey!
We started at my cousin's house where we took the supers off of her two hives.
We didn't have a bee trap so we ended up blowing the bees out of the suppers with the shopvac. 
When we had all of the frames cleared of bees we all moved into the shop where we started the actual extraction. 
We have a decapping knife which gets really hot so it will melt the wax off of the tops of the honey. That way the honey will fly out when it gets spun in the extractor. 
We finally got everything worked out and the performance went really well with my cousin Anna decapping the frames. My cousin Nathan turning the extractor, and myself moving the frames to their position and holding the extractor steady. 
Everybody ended up working until we got what we were looking for... 
The next day we moved to my friend's house and got my honey super off of the hive there, than we drove back to my house with them following to help. 
And did pretty much the same thing except I had a few more honey supers 
It's a little more crowded in our kitchen and I think that it will be really sticky for a very long time, but we were able to extract the honey. 
What was cool was everyone got to help out in a bunch of different ways. 
Than we bottled everything ending up with around 6 gallons of honey just from one hive! 
Anyway I won't bore you any longer with going into detail on everything we did. I'll just say it was loads of fun and really messy. I think I'm going to go to bed and sleep for three days.
