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

This works better for piercing my cracker doughs than the usual docking rollers. The tines are less conical, and produce more useful perforations.

I actually bought this to pierce berries before going into the freeze dryer and it works perfectly for the task.

This roller works amazing at uncapping the honey to get the best honey from my bee's nest.

I'm not sure there's anything particularly special about this spiky uncapping roller versus any other Chinese-made spiky uncapping roller, but I give it five stars because it did its job well. I tried alternating it with an uncapping knife, but the knife made a huge mess. The roller just pricks over the top of each cell, just enough to let the honey come out in your spinner, but without dumping huge quantities of honey and wax in your uncapping vessel first. So I'm team roller all the way.

clogs to easily

Does a decent job poking holes in the wax but rips it apart also, makes a ton of wax bits to plug up your screens. I always keep one handy during extraction

This is an awesome, time saving device. Highly recommend