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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS => Topic started by: Carriage House Farm on June 18, 2008, 12:17:15 am
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjtYKWXnOc
This is using the catch/cut-out frames that Cass was selling over the winer. They work like a charm. I used one of them earlier to keep some odd comb that they queen had laid in (never want to rid of brood) and now I am about to rotate that first one out.
This cut-out I did last weekend. I cut a total of five medium frames of brood and the rest was honey and pollen. I kept and crushed about 4 jars for myself and open fed the rest.
I have a video of that, but for some reason the first part is corrupted. I'll edit a bit and post a later date. I thought this had better educational value and figure I would post it first.
They have the plans for these frames on Beesource for free. Really, all it is just cutting frames in half and wiring both haves and putting a wrap around wire "hinge" at the bottom.
Enjoy!
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Someone PM'd me a suggested that it was nott he smartest thing to do...in terms of open feeding the honey I pulled from the cut-out.
To true and a complete mistake on my part. I should have fed it back solely to the hive I took it from. By open feeding I have simply exposed all my bees at this location to what the bees from the cut-out could have had.
DUMB.
Rather than just delete the part of my post I thought I should acknowledge the mistake.
Cheers!
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Another note - if you simply fold the two halves together and put them in the hive, the bees will propolize them together. Saves me time with rubber bands or wire. After a few days that frame isn't going to come appart without some convincing from the hive tool.