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Home-made spacer for twelve-frame hives

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Sour Kraut:
You did not miss a thing

I posted what I thought might be a guide for others to build something similar, and got two responses telling me what a bad idea it was to use it.

'Acebird' says he 'doesn't like spacer tools'.

That's his choice, nowhere have I insisted that anyone use it, just 'here's how to build one if you want one'.

As for the 'propolizing' thing, SO WHAT ? Bees will be bees and stick everything together anyway.

No, it was an attempt to show how easily a useful tool could be built out of scrap, and and folks can TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.

( And don't get me started on that 'thinning down the frames' road.)

For myself, I'll just stop trying to assist others, if that's how some of the folks on this board react when reading something that goes against their personal beliefs.

Clear now ?

Thanks

BeeMaster2:
Sour Kraut,
I see what you are saying.
I have posted many of the things that I have designed with pictures only to have no one make any comments. It?s like why bother. I can see how you feel when they make negative comments. Don?t let bother you and please continue to post your ideas.
I?m sure you have helped many Beeks. We have 400 to 500 quests on BeeMaster every day and none of them can post their comments until they register.
Jim Altmiller

CoolBees:

--- Quote from: sawdstmakr on April 08, 2019, 09:44:47 pm ---Sour Kraut,
I see what you are saying.
I have posted many of the things that I have designed with pictures only to have no one make any comments. It?s like why bother. I can see how you feel when they make negative comments. Don?t let bother you and please continue to post your ideas.
I?m sure you have helped many Beeks. We have 400 to 500 quests on BeeMaster every day and none of them can post their comments until they register.
Jim Altmiller

--- End quote ---

+1. Pls keep posting. Many of us read, but don't post much. I read this site daily for 1.5 yrs before signing up. I went gar back into the archives reading. Your audience is MUCH larger than those that post. If your posts help only 1 person, you've made the world a better place. ... I have learned so much from so many here - including you Sour Kraut. What you post today, may help someone 20 yrs from now. Pls keep posting, regardless of what some one person says that is bothersome.

Oh, and I LOVE the many variations of true German Sour Kraut. Mmmmm!

Alan

blackforest beekeeper:
o well.
I just meant honest advice. if spacer tools would be a good idea, commercial beeks would use them. they don`t. in my supers the "spacers" are built into the boxes themselves. that way frames won`t slide around while transporting or removing and adding again of boxes. you might use nails or staples or anything that will fill the space in between the ears of the frames. they will stay put. not crushing capped honey nor crushing bees while handling boxes.

super of mine:



in the last pic you might see the spacing device on the brood frames. look on the right side, about couple inches from the box side. you see a little knob of "shiny" metal nailed to top bar. another one sits further down on the side bar.
the OHTER side of the frame has them, too, just on the other side. this way the combs have the same space in between always. and are easiert to loosen and put together than the normal "Hoffmann"-sides as we call the thicker parts of the side bars, as I think most frames are like in US (and around here mostly, too).
frames with straight side-bars and something like these little knobs are much easier to make than the standard frames. they are NOT glued together, but are indeed much easier to work with.

hope that helps.
 :smile:

blackforest beekeeper:
didn`t work
first pic of super again:

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