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Offline Boykins

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Pallets?
« on: March 30, 2014, 06:06:11 pm »
Can anyone give me any advice or pointers for putting some hives on pallets. I would like to end up with a couple of pallets in the next couple of years. I sure think it would be easier to pickup 4 hives at a time sitting in a tractor seat. A question to go along with that, what would I have to do to the hives before taking them down the road? Would be going about 6 miles, still on the tractor.
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Re: Pallets?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2014, 07:08:46 pm »
To put on pallets.... Just sit them on, using slatted pallets, not plywood. "moisture collection".
To move... Strap them to the pallet.
To move 6 mile on tractor... Age comb for about 5 years to keep from jarring it loose.
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Re: Pallets?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2014, 07:35:58 pm »
Quote from: iddee on March 30, 2014, 07:08:46 pm
To put on pallets.... Just sit them on, using slatted pallets, not plywood. "moisture collection".
To move... Strap them to the pallet.
To move 6 mile on tractor... Age comb for about 5 years to keep from jarring it loose.

  That about sums it up right there. Ratchet straps around hive and pallet.  I hauled two hives about 40 miles in the back of a truck on a pallet, they came through fine.   If its on plastic foundation it will be a bit tuffer than if its wax or foundation-less.
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Re: Pallets?
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2014, 08:00:03 pm »
My truck rides a whole lot smoother than my tractor. Load on a pickup and move them as far as you want.
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Re: Pallets?
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2014, 09:55:51 pm »
Thanks Iddee, that's what I wanted to know. The truck it is. And you are saying not to build the bottom board as part of the pallet, just set a full hive on a regular pallet?
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Re: Pallets?
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2014, 10:06:42 pm »
Either way is fine. Just don't set the bottom board on solid wood. Moisture will gather between them and rot the wood. Either bottom board on slatted pallet, or bottom board as the pallet top.
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