Hi Flint 1. I think you'll find 20 hives to be a comfortable number to handle. Most of my years with bees (since 1972) that's the number of hives I kept, as a hobby. Now, as the years creep up on me, I've reduced my holdings to around 6-7, which leaves me with plenty of unused equipment, most of which I've passed on to my grandson, who has gone into beekeeping professionally (keeping well over 200 hives).
In returning to bees, did you "reactivate"dormant equipment or did you start over from scratch?
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