Added a Dadant 20 to be able to do some small batches in between the full flows. It came with this steel three legged stand. The drum sits on the steel bars and there are two chains to hold it together. I view this as a very very poor arrangement. Actually quite shameful, imho. The extractor is a nice piece. The stand is a nice piece. However, there simply is nothing nice to say about the way it is intended to go together. The cone weld joint of the drum sits direct on top of the 1/8 inch thin edges of the steel bars of the stand in three places. These are sharp pointed wear areas which will rub through the drum weld at that spot in short order. Stainless on stainless is slippery. There is this doinky chain thingy that is expected to keep in place. So you have this heavy drum, very heavy once filled with combs and honey, which is sitting on three sharp point but slippery areas. Completely inadequate, shameful. The bottom of this drum already shows buckling and thinning at these points from the previous owner and they barely used this thing.
Anyone else have this setup and felt this way about it? What modifications did you do?