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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => TOP BAR HIVES - WARRE HIVES - LONG HIVES => Topic started by: Grandma_DOG on May 11, 2009, 03:54:50 pm
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I did another cutout Saturday using a KTBH. I have to say, as rabid as I am about TBHs, they suck for cutouts. I may have to break down and buy Langs for other long distance cut outs.
This particular cutout was 2 hours away. Because the bars were new, with no propolis, they slid during transport. Notches would solve this in the future, but then it creates nooks for SHB.
There are 3 parts to the video, the first is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbs0go2KAs
part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kd8flqqeU
part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ80CEba1UE
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Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.
Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!
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You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...
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Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.
Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!
Not original, I got the idea from a Polish Fellow. I'm still playing with the size of the clip and if I really need 2 per bar.
Yea, the wax melt.... I like it. Maybe tho I should show that in fast forward for people.
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You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...
I'm all for that. Show me a design that's simple.
I gave some though to paint stir sticks (about 30mm) suspended below bars by string. Then I'd place the brood comb on the paint sticks and a 3rd string would keep it upright. But it would still suffer from rocking forces during transport.
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Excellent video..thanks for sharing your catch with us..now I find myself wondering if there are swarms in any of the old junky abandoned travel trailers I see out on the back roads.
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so how did the other two cut outs go?
did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!
G3
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so how did the other two cut outs go?
did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!
G3
Lol, this was a different hive, the other 3 will be later, after I get a key to the gate.
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really good set of videos, and the review is a great recap.
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how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?
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how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?
We were hunting their land for little black burnt rocks, as the video said. A meteorite fell there 15FEB09. I found a 15 gram specimen near that hive. I'm a meteoriticist amongst other things. Someone saw them and I inquired with the landowner if they wanted them gone. They had already exterminated a hive in a disused trailer the previous year.