just tried to help a friend out, who is away in france, frantic phone call this afternoon
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"can you put clearer boards on for me, i am stuck in france and want to extract on thursday" ,ok, "i haven't got porter escapes though," do worry i'll pop into blackheath and get you some
stuck for an hour, on the m25, took a bite to eat and arrive at his bee hives at 8,00pm with 20 new ported escapes
one hive under heavy wasp attack as a gap had been left due to wrongly stacked supers, sorteed that out and left till last
porter escapes fitted first, did not work, tried another yep worked, eventual got two hive fitted with porter but could not get the other 16 porters to work this left one hive
they are the plastic type with metal inset, ok dark and bees getting angry so eventual gave up
never had that problem before they always just worked from the packet,,,,now, what is the problem with them, the metal springs centre, and just lightly touch but the bees just pushed thro, going back tomorrow and try
ok now the rant, went ot last hive with one of my rhombus escapes from the car, took the suppers off, ,,,,,,,, arupted like a volcanoe, about 40 stings but only two got thru and , more mahem,,,now dark, rhomubus on , hang on that bees close, err it is the hood ,one somehow one got into the hood, squashed it
well what else could go wrong, drove to the electronic gates, thinking must really be late,, its very dark, ,,,err too dark , i realised i was locked in the farm due to a power cut the gates would not work
, two hours later,eventualy the power came back on, and when i got home, i been phoning u, where have you been, err no mobile phones due to power cut, supper cold but not given to the dog
never do a freind a favour and inspect bees at night
conversation went
"can you put clearer boards on for me, i am stuck in france and want to extract on thursday" ,ok, "i haven't got porter escapes though," do worry i'll pop into blackheath and get you some
stuck for an hour, on the m25, took a bite to eat and arrive at his bee hives at 8,00pm with 20 new ported escapes
one hive under heavy wasp attack as a gap had been left due to wrongly stacked supers, sorteed that out and left till last
porter escapes fitted first, did not work, tried another yep worked, eventual got two hive fitted with porter but could not get the other 16 porters to work this left one hive
they are the plastic type with metal inset, ok dark and bees getting angry so eventual gave up
never had that problem before they always just worked from the packet,,,,now, what is the problem with them, the metal springs centre, and just lightly touch but the bees just pushed thro, going back tomorrow and try
ok now the rant, went ot last hive with one of my rhombus escapes from the car, took the suppers off, ,,,,,,,, arupted like a volcanoe, about 40 stings but only two got thru and , more mahem,,,now dark, rhomubus on , hang on that bees close, err it is the hood ,one somehow one got into the hood, squashed it
well what else could go wrong, drove to the electronic gates, thinking must really be late,, its very dark, ,,,err too dark , i realised i was locked in the farm due to a power cut the gates would not work
, two hours later,eventualy the power came back on, and when i got home, i been phoning u, where have you been, err no mobile phones due to power cut, supper cold but not given to the dog
never do a freind a favour and inspect bees at night
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