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wannabee
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Location: USA, Oregon, Portland (North)
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 Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: son of hivemonster |
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Put my hivemonster in place, and decided it is just too big. Then, built a regular warre as a gift, liked it so much I did a total redesign of the hybrid warre/tbh hive. This one is smaller, with a straight sided main box. Pics can be viewed here:
http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/ll2/sanchokatydid/son%20of%20hivemonster/
New bees arrive in about 2 weeks! And getting a So Oregon survivor stock queen in May, also plan to try my hand at catching a few swarms....
hooray spring
cheers
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FollowMeChaps
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Joined: 23 Jun 2008
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Location: North Somerset, SW UK
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That's looking fantastic Laura.
I take it you are not good at making decisions? Is this how it went "Shall I build a horizontal or should I go for a Warre? Ah, I know..............." 
(In case you missed it that was a feeble attempt at British humour) |
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Gareth
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Location: UK, England, Cotswolds
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| FollowMeChaps wrote: | That's looking fantastic Laura.
I take it you are not good at making decisions? Is this how it went "Shall I build a horizontal or should I go for a Warre? Ah, I know..............."
(In case you missed it that was a feeble attempt at British humour) |
Of course she made a decision: she decided to do both. That's making a deci.....Oh, I get it!  |
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RyanB
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Joined: 18 Mar 2009
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Location: USA, Lafayette, OR
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| Wow! That is amazing looking. alot of work went into that. I would love to see it sometime! |
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wannabee
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Location: USA, Oregon, Portland (North)
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Oh I am great at making decisions....first I decide one thing, then I decide to change my mind!
But seriously, typically when I design something I have to build two or three (or more) screw ups first...that 's art training for you. For what its worth, the base is about 8 pieces of scrap ply and what have you cobbled together, painted with two hideous leftover colors of housepaint mixed together to make it look cohesive. As they say in the trades: "little putty, little paint, make it look like what it ain't..."
that said, thanks for the compliments! Anyone who wants to come visit me in NOPO is most welcome.
cheers
Laura |
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CAbeek
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Cool. I think you could sell timeshares to the bees for that one  |
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yanyading
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Joined: 13 May 2014
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Location: Yibin, Sichuan Province, P.R.China
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| I dont think this is workable... |
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Notyouraveragebeek
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Location: Findlay, Ohio (USA)
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Well the only issue I can see if when it comes time to "hibernate", they will have to decide if they are going to go up, or keep moving along to the side... but that's not a huge issue if there is honey where they are moving to!
Can somebody tell me what is wrong with this system?
It seems like an awesome way to transition a swarm from a Warre to KTBH if nothing else. |
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