Trap-out of 2016

[Perry]

I am doing a trap-out for a really nice couple who have a beautiful heritage farmhouse. I know them from the Market and her father who helped get me started with bees here in Nova Scotia. Her father George happens to be a beekeeping legend in Nova Scotia, he has a lifetime membership in the Association, one of only 2 or 3 people to have one. At the end of it I needed a frame of open brood and George showed up with a frame and before I could say hello he clambered up the ladder, removed the top, and placed the frame in the trap-out. George is 81 or 82!

As far as trap-outs go this was about as easy I've had.

The first picture shows a light fixture on the left of the front door, the colony moved in behind the one on the right 2 years ago.






This last picture is a keepsake!

[apisbees]

Looking good. I would have been tempted to do a cut out. with careful removal of the trim an the window and door, then the siding could be removed. the only consideration would be what height the ceilings inside are as to how high up the combs would be attached. Reaching up a foot inside the wall is doable if the ceilings were only 8 ft high, if they are 9 or 10 foot ceilings on the first floor then it would get complicated.

[Perry]

Ceilings were very tall inside. Also, given the age of the home, the walls almost certainly consist of something referred to as balloon construction, where the space between the studs goes from floor to the second story ceiling with no break.