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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => TOP BAR HIVES - WARRE HIVES - LONG HIVES => Topic started by: Grandma_DOG on May 11, 2009, 03:54:50 pm

Title: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Grandma_DOG on May 11, 2009, 03:54:50 pm: I did another cutout Saturday using a KTBH. I have to say, as rabid as I am about TBHs, they suck for cutouts. I may have to break down and buy Langs for other long distance cut outs.

This particular cutout was 2 hours away. Because the bars were new, with no propolis, they slid during transport. Notches would solve this in the future, but then it creates nooks for SHB.

There are 3 parts to the video, the first is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbs0go2KAs

part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kd8flqqeU

part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ80CEba1UE
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: beedad on May 11, 2009, 09:04:19 pm: Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.

Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Michael Bush on May 11, 2009, 09:21:27 pm: You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Grandma_DOG on May 11, 2009, 10:55:02 pm: Quote from: beedad on May 11, 2009, 09:04:19 pm
Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.

Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!

Not original, I got the idea from a Polish Fellow. I'm still playing with the size of the clip and if I really need 2 per bar.

Yea, the wax melt.... I like it. Maybe tho I should show that in fast forward for people.
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Grandma_DOG on May 11, 2009, 10:57:42 pm: Quote from: Michael Bush on May 11, 2009, 09:21:27 pm
You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...

I'm all for that. Show me a design that's simple.

I gave some though to paint stir sticks (about 30mm) suspended below bars by string. Then I'd place the brood comb on the paint sticks and a 3rd string would keep it upright. But it would still suffer from rocking forces during transport.
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Hethen57 on May 17, 2009, 03:16:48 am: Excellent video..thanks for sharing your catch with us..now I find myself wondering if there are swarms in any of the old junky abandoned travel trailers I see out on the back roads.
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: G3farms on May 17, 2009, 07:27:46 am: so how did the other two cut outs go?

did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!

G3
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Grandma_DOG on May 17, 2009, 06:20:07 pm: Quote from: G3farms on May 17, 2009, 07:27:46 am
so how did the other two cut outs go?

did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!

G3

Lol, this was a different hive, the other 3 will be later, after I get a key to the gate.
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Bee Happy on May 17, 2009, 07:00:00 pm: really good set of videos, and the review is a great recap.
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: beedad on May 17, 2009, 08:32:34 pm: how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?
Title: Re: Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Grandma_DOG on May 17, 2009, 10:45:48 pm: Quote from: beedad on May 17, 2009, 08:32:34 pm
how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?

We were hunting their land for little black burnt rocks, as the video said. A meteorite fell there 15FEB09. I found a 15 gram specimen near that hive. I'm a meteoriticist amongst other things. Someone saw them and I inquired with the landowner if they wanted them gone. They had already exterminated a hive in a disused trailer the previous year.