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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: Stone on May 26, 2011, 06:37:32 pm

Title: The one that got away.
Post by: Stone on May 26, 2011, 06:37:32 pm

I just had to give up a swarm because it was too high up in a tree.  It was hanging on a very thin branch about 20-25 feet up.  No way to get it without a cherry picker.  I thought about that bucket on a pole contraption. Maybe that would have worked. Maybe if I could have lassoed the branch and pulled it down? That could have worked too.  But a professional, multiple section, tree pruner would have definitely worked but the swarm would have been smashed to the driveway below.  A tree pruner pole outfitted with a noose at the end could have solved this problem.

Anyone ever heard of this?  Or made one?  I'm mentally designing one as I write but I'd be interested in finding out what solutions to this situation you all have come up with.

Title: Re: The one that got away.
Post by: G3farms on May 26, 2011, 07:50:16 pm

shoot the branch out.

painters telescopic extension pole with a bucket on it.

Title: Re: The one that got away.
Post by: AllenF on May 26, 2011, 09:59:54 pm

Cut the tree down