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SWMBO's idea of commission for making sales is to take the honey, charge for it and keep the damn lot. That's also draining!!!

How do you find the pump coping with 2:1 Ian?

Or perhaps a domestic dimmer switch? As I've previously stated I'm no expert, infact I'm not even a rank amateur. Hopefully one of the jedi's will be along soon to help you. Ps: As you would imagine, there's a story behind my post ......... for another day tho

There is more you can do to to help yourself with this; firstly, no location on your profile. Easier to provide assistance if your location is known & secondly, the threat Asian hornets present to British bees and beekeeping means you should familiarise yourself with the differences between a...

You're thinking right

I recall a certified honey judge at the club annual show open a jar that had fermented that he gave a second place to!! Even after the judge passed it round for everyone to have a whiff at with the lid off!!

Always risky to assume; I've found.

I rent a barn

Just so I get my thinking clear, are we saying the less frames we have in a super, the more honey we get?

Yes keep going

Don't you need to add VAT to that price?

I've been asked to provide 2oz jars of honey for a client annually. The jars are from F&H and take 2.5oz to fill properly. So what, I build into my costs the actual cost of the honey needed to fill the jar properly based on my price per pound rate. The customer thinks its a 2oz jar and is non...

The "secret" to a good clearer board is to have an inch or inch and a half lip/eke attached to it and.......... if there's a big hive with loads of bee's then a super under that to give the bee's room to move into when they've vacated the supers above the CB. Oh and I've more often than not had...

I have small pallets on the floor in the barn and your idea of a kind of pigeon hole shelving is a bobby dazzler of a space saving thought. Thanks

Was he a smoker? :)

Don't blame us!!! Sort all the wet super frames into one super and manage that. Far simpler

I have the silver crest and wouldn't be without it. Works a treat.

Usually in their arms is good for up to five at a time. If you feel you've got to do something, why not a wine bottle bag and stack them?

Read up on HMF in Bee's

Can you be a bit more specific re numbers? I.e. frames of brood / bee's etc