extracting honey for newbees

[Stone]

If I had plastic foundation and wanted to crush and strain,.... I'd  scrape the honey off of the plastic into a pan to crush it.  

Then next year try using foundationless frames and see how easy it is!

Linda T in Atlanta

Which takes us full circle: I'm learning you have to "train" the bees to make straight comb first! And it seems to take a great deal of time to do it. 

And thank you all for the suggestion about "laddering" and keeping on top of what the bees are doing. It seems each time I look inside a hive, I'm fixing a mess. I'm lucky I'm on vacation!

One more question.  I noticed that the last frame of my bottom (base) hive body which is topped with honey (or mostly honey), is attached to the wall.  I haven't checked this box for awhile but I can see this from above. Would you suggest I go in and fix that too?