blowers, fume boards or escapes

[danno]

Going out to buy a new blower tonight.   I loved escapes when I was dealing with just a few but have sinse switch to bee-go.   I hate this stuff.  My truck smells soooooo good all year of wax and honey then this time of year.   Bee-go!!!!  To top it off it hasn't work as good as usual and i now have many pounds of bees on the inside of the windows of my new honey house.   I have been spending every night just before sundown going up there and opening windows.  My old Dadant blower is just to heavy to lug around and because I dont use it very often it starts hard. 

[Kathyp]

i switched to bee quick this year.  i highly recommend it.  it doesn't stink like the others.

[bigbearomaha]

That's another reason  I like my tbh's.  just brush em as  I pull em, one at a time.  no muss, no fuss.

Big Bear

[AllenF]

Leaf blower works good for me, just line up all the boxes on their sides and blow them clean.  If I am pulling a box or two, I just use the brush.   I am afraid of the escapes now.  I have several but have not used them in years.  I do not want to leave a box empty for the beetles.  If something comes up and it is a few days before I can get to them, I might loose the super.   

[danno]

how many CFM leaf blower do you use?

[AllenF]

No idea.   It is a backpack blower. 

[pembroke]

I use the stinky stuff too. First time this year and it does smell ......... It works and that is what it's supposed to do. However the smell didn't last long, 3 or 4 days at most. All is good again. when I run out of BEE GO I definitely will go with the better smelling stuff. Pembroke

[D Coates]

I use one of these, http://www.billygoat.com/site/intro.aspx?pid=68, with the hose kit, http://www.billygoat.com/site/intro.aspx?pid=68.  I used to use a back pack but got tired of the noise, 2-cycle gas and carrying it around.  This one is quieter, easy to roll, and powerful.  Works like a charm!

[rdy-b]

Another good reason to run nine frames in a ten frame box much
easyer to evacuate the bees -RDY-B

[Michael Bush]

I like to wait for the cool weather and the bees will be down in the brood nest and not up in the supers...