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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: schawee on April 05, 2013, 07:14:29 pm

Title: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: schawee on April 05, 2013, 07:14:29 pm
did two cutouts at a sugar refinery Monday and Tuesday.they were the cutouts from hell even though they were in a church over a 100 years old on the property..the first hive was bad but the second hive made you pay for your mistakes.i will re-queen them when my queens hatch in about a week.the pic of the train was a train passing and was going slow and decided to stop and watch for about ten minutes.so the next time a train is blocking you ,you would have to ask yourself,i wonder if schawee is doing another cutout next to the tracks :-D by the way this is the darkest honey I ever saw.look and taste like molasses.
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Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: Intheswamp on April 05, 2013, 07:45:19 pm
Wow!!!  That colony in the round opening looks intimidating!!!  Was that a window or ????  That other colony with the long and wide comb doesn't look like a pushover, either!!  Which one was the worst one?

Honestly, when I saw the title of the thread I though it was going to be a joke or something...ya gotta remember up here in south Alabama we don't have sugar refineries and the thought of a honey bee removal from a sugar refinery just struck me as, well...humorously ironic.  :-D

Good'un, Schawee!!! I'd say you've mended up well and back high in the saddle!!!  Now, go get you two XXL vanilla shakes and charge them to JP. ;)

Ed
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: bailey on April 05, 2013, 08:11:02 pm
Bees at a sugar refinery sounds like shooting over a baited field.
I loved the idea too.   Bet swarm traps would work well but if they are bad who wants them?  
Tough looking cutouts.
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: iddee on April 05, 2013, 11:25:07 pm
Nice job. Hope you got paid well. Looks like the fun was left out of that one.
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: PLAN-B on April 05, 2013, 11:25:47 pm
I think that picture with the round bricks looked really cool...  As far as the honey i wonder if those bees were getting in to the brown sugar over there or maybe the mash...
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: divemaster1963 on April 06, 2013, 12:21:15 am
tuff one hey. the honey looks like they never went without food. all that dry and wet sugar. Plus if it's sugar from cane, we all know what else is made from it. (hickup. here.) they just did not want you to move them from their AAA 1 location.

John
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: edward on April 06, 2013, 02:46:20 pm
 X:X COOL PICs  X:X
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: jpmeir on April 06, 2013, 09:51:15 pm
Looked like a lot of work schawee, nice work.
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: hardwood on April 06, 2013, 10:31:27 pm
Awesome job Bro...those ones make you appreciate the easy ones eh?

Scott
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: AllenF on April 07, 2013, 09:23:29 pm
I also am wondering if that dark honey was coming from the sugar refinery. 
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: schawee on April 08, 2013, 12:15:13 am
ALLEN,IM SURE IT DID.THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE THOUSANDS OF BEES IN THE RAW SUGAR.IDDEE,I GOT PAYED REAL GOOD ON THIS JOB.IT MAKES UP FOR THE STINGS :-D ED IT WAS A WINDOW AND IT DID LOOK INTIMIDATING BUT THIS ONE WAS THE WORST.THEY GOT ME EVERY CHANCE THEY COULD.       SCHAWEE
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: JP on April 08, 2013, 09:35:37 am
Dude, both those hives been there quite a while! The one in the barrel looked cool!

Too bad I couldn't have showed up, we could have done some bickering for the train crew.  :-D


...JP
Title: Re: 2cutouts at a sugar refinery
Post by: D Coates on April 08, 2013, 12:30:55 pm
That 1/2 barrel was really cool.  I bet they used it as the from when they laid those bricks.