Well, after a total of 13 hours doing the pillar cutout (including drive time and installing into my TBH) I also caught a swarm in my own yard. Well, the swarm absconded. Today I went back to gather the remaining bees from the pillar(another 3 hrs). I went to add them to the TBH, and guess what? They had absconded too! I had put a ton of their broodcomb and honey comb in the TBH and they had enough room, so why did they leave? Now I have a couple handfulls of bees from the cutout and the swarm, which I dumped into the TBH, but I am resigning myself to believe it is a lost cause. What a lot of time wasted!