Author Topic: Base needed for an extractor  (Read 5210 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Bakersdozen

  • Global Moderator
  • Gold Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 4574
  • Thanked: 489 times
  • Gender: Female
  • Location: Olathe, Kansas
Base needed for an extractor
« on: July 07, 2020, 07:17:43 pm »
My new extractor arrived today.  It's a 4 frame electric model with 3 legs.  I would like to mount the extractor legs on some type of base to keep it from walking around.  As it is, the weight of the extractor is about all I can lift when empty.  So, something too heavy will be more than I can handle.  I also need to be able to take it through a doorway.  I was thinking of a sheet of plywood, cut to size, with locking wheels mounted on the bottom.  Any thoughts?

Offline Zweefer

  • Administrator
  • Gold Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 1831
  • Thanked: 165 times
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Eau Claire WI
Re: Base needed for an extractor
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2020, 03:25:49 pm »
This is what I have on mine as well...

I don’t really have issues with it walking, but if I did I have the option to add weight to the plywood.  I don’t have wheels on mine, as a hand cart works just fine for the shop it lives in...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
Keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Henry David Thoreau