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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: LazyBkpr on April 06, 2014, 11:49:03 pm

Title: The Buyout
Post by: LazyBkpr on April 06, 2014, 11:49:03 pm

  Been a long couple of days going through all the stuff my wife bought.
   44 Deep boxes with frames. 36 Medium boxes with frames. 32 Shallow honey supers. 24 Comb honey supers. Two stainless decapping tanks. a 12 frame dadant extractor. Plastic decapping tanks. Solar wax melter. Misc queen excluders, including 4 OLD zinc stamped excluders. Filtering gear for honey and wax. Boxes of wax foundation and un assembled frames. Hot Knives, honey buckets, a 55 gallon stainless honey storage tank. A 20 gallon stainless honey tank, etc, etc.... Lots of stuff to sort and begin cleaning.
   Most everything I need to reach the 50 hive mark I have set for myself.
   
   I built a pair of the double nuc set ups a couple days ago. The type that uses 4 frames and a standard hive tele cover fits....  A standard hive body divided that two 4 frame nuc bodies fit on top of. 
   Changed my mind after they were done and painted.
   I built two new bottom boards instead that will accept standard 5 frame nuc bodies. Since I use mediums.. I like it better with the extra frame. I'll take some pics tomorrow and show the difference to get opinions.

Title: Re: The Buyout
Post by: Jen on April 07, 2014, 12:10:54 am

Nice to hear that you are thinking forward with your new/used investment. Would you like some of my bees to get your apiary up to 50 hives, I'm sure it will get there by the end of summer  :D

Title: Re: The Buyout
Post by: LazyBkpr on April 07, 2014, 12:26:57 am

I actually thought, when I saw your last post, that I needed your bees out here in feral colonies so I could catch more in my traps and that maybe we'd have as many cut outs to do as JP does. :)
   There is also the possibility that if you send your queens SOUTH that in about ten yeaars we could drive the AHB back down into Mexico!!!

    ;D

Title: Re: The Buyout
Post by: Jen on April 07, 2014, 12:34:08 am

I'm Game!  :)  today, during a brief moment of insanity I thought I ought to be a queen breeder  :D

Title: Re: The Buyout
Post by: barry42001 on April 07, 2014, 12:56:46 am

oh and wouldn't you be the favorite of all the beekeepers, having all their colonies swarm 20 times a season ::):o

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Title: Re: The Buyout
Post by: Jen on April 07, 2014, 01:08:37 am

I would admit to nothing for fear of incriminating myself!!

But ya know what? I just may have the missing link here to colony collapse ~

Okay okay I gotta get some zzzzz's brains getting crazy  ;) 8)

Title: Re: The Buyout
Post by: barry42001 on April 07, 2014, 01:21:33 am

Lol

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