Any one moving boxes to out apiarys.

[Curly green finger's]

I was wondering if any one has started doing this ready for the new season.

 

[jeff33]

No, not yet but moving 6 hives to a new apiary this week.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

nope - they've been there all winter

 

[BigAshW]

I've moved kit out to my new apiary and a couple of colonies so far. Will do the rest this weekend.

 

[Codford]

nope - they've been there all winter

Ditto.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Ditto.

The question wasn't specific enough maybe?
This was a question about renovated boxes and new equipment being taken out to sites now so they are there ready rather than having to move them when needed.
These are ready for one of the apiarys and shed space is becoming an issue plus I want to shortly take super and brood boxes out of storage with drawn comb to get ready for use.

 

[pargyle]

So... you are going to store boxes at out apiaries with drawn comb in them but no bees ? Why ? Are you buying in loads of packages of bees to fill them soon ? If not .. what are you doing to protect them against wax moth ... if you are not very careful and haven't treated the combs with Dipel or similar you may have no combs left in there by the time you put bees in them ...

 

[Michael Palmer]

Nope, not yet. The snow’s too deep and I can’t get there.

 

[johnfly]

I was wondering if any one has started doing this ready for the new season.

just wondering, how strange that you ask that question for the time you have been keeping bees, the notes from other years that you talk about and the advice you give to others i would of thought that you would of known the answer to that question from your past experience that you say you have ??

 

[Boston Bees]

just wondering, how strange that you ask that question for the time you have been keeping bees, the notes from other years that you talk about and the advice you give to others i would of thought that you would of known the answer to that question from your past experience that you say you have ??

He was just starting a conversation. No need for the passive-aggressive response.

 

[Curly green finger's]

So... you are going to store boxes at out apiaries with drawn comb in them but no bees ? Why ? Are you buying in loads of packages of bees to fill them soon ? If not .. what are you doing to protect them against wax moth ... if you are not very careful and haven't treated the combs with Dipel or similar you may have no combs left in there by the time you put bees in them ...

So... you are going to store boxes at out apiaries with drawn comb in them but no bees ? Why ? Are you buying in loads of packages of bees to fill them soon ? If not .. what are you doing to protect them against wax moth ... if you are not very careful and haven't treated the combs with Dipel or similar you may have no combs left in there by the time you put bees in them ...

No drawn comb, but boxes with frames made ready for foundation.
I've got more boxes and frames than I ever have had twice as many if not more, I've got 12 nucs to hive 4 new queens over at this apiary among other things.

 

[pargyle]

No drawn comb, but boxes with frames made ready for foundation.
I've got more boxes and frames than I ever have had twice as many.

So you are going to put the foundation in place at the out apiaries ? Have you thought this through?

 

[Curly green finger's]

So you are going to put the foundation in place at the out apiaries ? Have you thought this through?

I'm still processing the thought.

 

[pargyle]

I'm still processing the thought.

Always better to sleep on it ... Also - you can bet on the fact that the apiaries where you have put most supers will be the ones where you don't need them and vice versa ..

I think with the space you have at home I'd just stack them there in the open and just fit the foundation as you need to and take them where you need them when you need them ....

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I always carry twenty supers in the back of the truck in the summer

 

[pargyle]

It's OK - You've got a mobile back yard ... I've got a car and all my hives are just round the corner from the kitchen ... but the principle is the same - you need them where you need them when you need them ...

 

[Curly green finger's]

Always better to sleep on it ... Also - you can bet on the fact that the apiaries where you have put most supers will be the ones where you don't need them and vice versa ..

I think with the space you have at home I'd just stack them there in the open and just fit the foundation as you need to and take them where you need them when you need them ....

Aye! you don't live with swimbo stack them out side nr the house I wouldn't be able to brush the front.
Far point though.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Aye! you don't live with swimbo stack them out side nr the house I wouldn't be able to brush the front.
Far point though.

If you are going to be commercial you are going to need commercial storage

 

[Antipodes]

If you are going to be commercial you are going to need commercial storage

Check out this recent heartwarming story and the new bee shed!! (around 5 minute mark)

https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2004Q004S00