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Title: bucket with honey gate- angled bottom to get all the honey out??
Post by: Sniper338 on May 04, 2017, 06:41:09 PM
Im looking at 5 gallon buckets with honey gates on them...  the issue I find is the way they are made would leave a half inch or so of hiney in the bottom of the bucket... because the honey gate is on the side of the bucket...

Is there a better bucket/pail set up where the bottom of the bucket is angled so the last bit of honey will flow out of the gate into bottle??

Title: Re: bucket with honey gate- angled bottom to get all the honey out??
Post by: iddee on May 04, 2017, 06:46:27 PM
If there is, I wouldn't want it. The top and bottom honey has the debris in it. I bottle from the middle, keeping the dregs out of my bottles.
Title: Re: bucket with honey gate- angled bottom to get all the honey out??
Post by: Acebird on May 05, 2017, 08:24:21 AM
Quote from: Sniper338 on May 04, 2017, 06:41:09 PM
Is there a better bucket/pail set up where the bottom of the bucket is angled so the last bit of honey will flow out of the gate into bottle??

It is called a block of wood, 2x4 works.  Although as iddee said the top and bottom should be strained again or given to the bees.