A professional who tends machine that extracts liquid honey from combs. Respnsibilities include:

• Places decapped honeycombs in baskets of honey-extracting machine and closes cover.
• Sets clock for specified time cycle and starts extractor machine to pump honey from honeycombs to drums for storage.
• Stops machine when time bell rings.
• Removes emptied honeycombs from machine and places them in vacant supers.
• May cut caps from honeycombs.