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Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« on: November 15, 2014, 02:51:02 pm »
I forgot ~ for winter, inner cover notch up or down?
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2014, 03:02:39 pm »
I don't use notches, but I put inner cover shallow side down, deep side up, year round.
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2014, 03:06:09 pm »
Okay, so you don't have upper ventilation?
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2014, 03:46:13 pm »
Notch down.


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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2014, 03:48:51 pm »
Thanks Perry  :)
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2014, 04:50:26 pm »
notch down year round for me.......
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2014, 05:16:34 pm »
Quote from: riverbee on November 15, 2014, 04:50:26 pm
notch down year round for me.......

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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2014, 05:28:25 pm »
NO. I've never used upper ventilation.  They can circulate the air any way they want it, but cannot keep it from rising and escaping. They can push it out the bottom, or keep it in. Their choice.
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2014, 05:55:37 pm »
iddee, and for others, to what iddee said, i do find sometimes that the bees will propolize the notch in the front of the inner cover, (my notch is much wider 3-3 1/2") or the hole in the inner cover to their liking.......don't scrape it out or remove the propolis, cuz they WILL fill it back in. i let them do it.  they know better than me their needs for ventilation and circulation/heat and air cooling. 
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2014, 06:15:31 pm »
Okay, mainly I need to know for when I wrap the hives. Some say up and some say down. Mine are all down, so I'll just keep it that way  :)  Thanks!
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2014, 09:09:14 pm »
My notches are all down as well.. I use about an inch for the upper entrance vent..   I did NOT open some of those notches when I wrapped this year to see what happens..  Of course, with no reserves it may not be much of a test....
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2014, 09:44:10 pm »
Geez Scott, it would be nice if all of us could take turns holding a candlelight watch over your hives this winter. I would do that for steady hot chocolate with brandy in it, and a nice bon fire in the snow... I really would!  ;)
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2014, 10:15:41 pm »

   Just got a BIG new fire ring too!  will post pics when I get it set up.. perfect thing to hold a... firelight vigil!
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2014, 10:32:50 pm »
This is scary i agree with the notch down also?? :o Mainly because of the need for a top entrance when we have deep S--- and for ventilation. There have been many times the S--- stayed on for weeks at a time.I don't know if they have that problem in NC. ? Jen, i'm curious why you wrap your hives in California  ??? Jack
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2014, 11:35:57 pm »
Um.... well.... I dunno frankly! Following the others I guess. But it's precautionary, we live on a slope where a strong wind comes down every day around 4:00. And it's not uncommon to get below zero for a stretch. Really... upper northern Cali is not that balmy! There are no palm trees here like depicted in Hollywood  :D
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #16 on: November 16, 2014, 05:19:57 am »
Nope, I think 3 or 4 days is the longest I've ever seen it last here. We get some deep ones, but the last 17 inch one was gone in 3 days.
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #17 on: November 16, 2014, 08:46:02 am »
Quote from: iddee on November 16, 2014, 05:19:57 am
Nope, I think 3 or 4 days is the longest I've ever seen it last here. We get some deep ones, but the last 17 inch one was gone in 3 days.

My friend had a winter home in Dunn NC,  he would live there for 5 months and come back here to live for the summer. once in awhile I would go down and stay with him for a few days. It was nice to get away from the Snowbelt.
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2014, 08:50:27 am »
We have some in our bee club that go south for the winter (their called Snow Birds) ;D Jack
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Re: Inner Cover Notch Up or Down
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2014, 09:25:03 am »
Notch down, all year long here in Michigan.
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