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Post by SA Hunter on Mar 18, 2019 18:19:17 GMT 10
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Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on Mar 19, 2019 11:12:27 GMT 10
Interesting... We have a neighbor, about 4km that keeps a lot of bees.. He uses conventional boxes and some open top V shape boxes that you set a V shaped insert in with a cross bar on top of the V long enough to hang in the trough. Supposedly makes it much easier to pull out sections to harvest and replace with sections for the bees to refill. I don't know any other details about that.
As you can imagine his biggest problem is bears....... He uses a system of sectional dog kennels around the hives well anchored down. With high power solar electric fence around the kennel. With "bear mats" all around the complex. Bear Mats are plywood with hundreds of 50mm or longer dry wall type screws sharp point up... Even with all this he still looses a hive or two a year.
I know when I hear his big 300 Winchester magnum bark to keep watch along the shore of our lake and swamps which are directly up stream from him.
When I mentioned it he said he had heard of the "3-S" predator control system before.... Thats all there is to say about that..
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Jackosaur
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Post by Jackosaur on Mar 20, 2019 22:11:10 GMT 10
Well, I can say that it's an immitation Flow frame as the genuine ones sell for about $100 each frame. I don't know whether these would be as good or not I can't comment there. Some people have speculated that the knock offs may not use food grade plastic and therefore chemicals might leach into the honey.
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