Hello Carmenie and All, Carmenie wrote: I found out that using your hands to scoop the honey up is the > fastest way By a dust pan at the *dollar store* and use instead of hands. Use a plastic flat piece sold to apply automotive body putty by Walmart to push the honey in the dust pan. They are also great for getting the last of the honey out of a pail. Carmenie wrote: our most favorite moments being when the pails overflowed. I hate to see a drop of honey hit the floor. I wish I could train the bees to put it in the > jars themselves. They will if a strong flow is on . Take a inner cover and cut holes so a pint mason jar fit the hole. Use about 6 jars per inner cover. Some beekeepers put a piece of foundation across the jar but I do not. We have produced a case or two of these for the state fair to show people when they say "Would be nice if you could get the bees to put the honey in the jar for you". Anyone else have extracting gone wrong, lessons learned experiances? Stop and clean a spill right away. > By the way, how are honey flows going in areas > represented by those on this list? Main honey flow over and honey plants burning up because of the heat. Temperature at night around 90f. and around 100f and up in the day with heat index around 110F. Removing honey crop is going slow. Beekeepers not able to hire help and only pulling honey in the morning. Many report honey house temperatures running in the 110 to 115f. while extracting ( heat from uncappers and sumps). Bees pulling honey out of supers into brood nest. Typical Missouri year! Bob Missouri