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[BKF Admin]

i assume you are digging to find your smart car...did you find it?

Or burying it

 

[oliver90owner]

The snow in that pic with the smart car isn't even deep!

 

[ultreen1]

The snow in that pic with the smart car isn't even deep!

Deep or not it won't move!

 

[oliver90owner]

Why? No engine?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Have you considered some hive identification to minimise bees 'drifting'?

I've got numbers on all my hives for that very reason

 

[blackcavebees]

Nice picture. Why the 3 national brood boxes on one of the hives.

I was thinking that too. Are you overwintering multiple colonies on top of each other?

 

[drstitson]

That's not a smart in the snow....

this is a smart in the snow....

and as rab says - why can't it move? so long as you have winter tyres and the snow isn't deeper than the front spoiler (6") all should be fine. We routinely leave a groove on the flattened snow between the tyre tracks where the sump plug (a useful mod in a smart) scrapes along the snow.

 

[Finman]

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Last night our record was -33C

But it was before Christmas when we got last snow fall.

.

 

[yeogi75]

Mr

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wont it roll out

 

[Haughton Honey]

I was thinking that too. Are you overwintering multiple colonies on top of each other?

It's actually a double brood National colony being over-wintered on top of an empty brood box (just because it was in the apiary and I needed somehwere to put it!). They'll be shook swarmed in to a new Commercial brood box in April with a bit of luck.

There's an exceptionally strong double Commercial brood box colony at the back of the photo too (the light blue hive) - very very dark bees in there that originated from a collected swarm...and bleedin' aggressive to boot.

I actually saw one of them leaving for a toilet break and returning in 0 degrees the other day - ard as nails they are.

I do like my uniformity

 

[ultreen1]

this is a smart in the snow....

and as rab says - why can't it move? so long as you have winter tyres and the snow isn't deeper than the front spoiler (6") all should be fine. We routinely leave a groove on the flattened snow between the tyre tracks where the sump plug (a useful mod in a smart) scrapes along the snow.

Now that's a lost smart!
No winter tyres and a steep drive!

 

[Dishmop]

this is a smart in the snow....

all it needs is a hat and carrot.

be careful you dont sweep it away..

 

[Moggs]

Nice stands - got any drawings?

 

[blackcavebees]

Nice stands - got any drawings?

460mm plus wide, have a look at
http://www.?bay.co.uk/itm/BEE-HIVE-..._Pet_Supplies_Bee_Keeping&hash=item1c2ea68bcc

Replace ?

Plenty of pics, use bolts for legs and note cross member on legs which adds support.

However, I just cut down a pallet ...

 

[Moggs]

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