Flow Hive - more info

[dexter's shed]

to clean them, you simple take them apart and clean, it's not rocket science, although some on here would lead you to believe it were

 

[madasafish]

I wonder if the insurance (AFB/EFB) would pay-up if you had to destroy your plastic flow frames?

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Okay, got the Answer, you need to Gamma Ray Irradiate them or burn!

http://forum.honeyflow.com/t/flow-frame-sterilisation-irradiation-disease-control/2271/3

BDI have a fixed rate per comb depending on the hive type and frame size -incl TBHs.

So you would probably get the Langstroth rate .. £3.20

http://www.beediseasesinsurance.co.uk/products

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

@jenkinsbrynmair wittily accused me of uncapping with a billhook (he's not far wrong) but beeking is not a tidy business; you catch a patch of crystallised honey, drag it across the frame etc etc. i just don't see how a world with propolis and crystals in it keeps a flowhive operating for a season. @Hivemaker. had the best joke on that one when he said they'll be ready for the heather.

 

[thorn]

I'll not save you the trouble, go back and read

Typical Yorkshireman. Always ready to tell you, in the most tender manner, of your failings, and aid your reformation.

 

[Thymallus]

Typical Yorkshireman. Always ready to tell you, in the most tender manner, of your failings, and aid your reformation.

You may have missed a smiley off?

 

[thorn]

You may have missed a smiley off?

True. I've never worked out how to use them.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Typical Yorkshireman. Always ready to tell you, in the most tender manner, of your failings, and aid your reformation.

I don't need a spade when I've got a bloody shovel.

 

[andyphibb]

Time will tell!!! And we will ALL find out

 

[Erichalfbee]

From flow forum today

A little update on my last extraction which I did on September 4th. The honey was much thicker than when I extracted in August, even though the temperatures are warmer now. Not sure why this is but it was thick and I had a hard time getting it spun out of frames. And as it dripped out of flow gate into pail it was still pretty thick. I believe this last batch was pretty much wild sunflower honey and possibly some clover mixed in. With this being the case I might use my flow frames in spring flow and summer flow but for the fall flow pull them out and not use them as I think the honey this time might have been to thick to drip well into troughs.


So it might be a nice toy to play with but you're still going to need an extractor.

 

[pargyle]

From flow forum today

" With this being the case I might use my flow frames in spring flow and summer flow but for the fall flow pull them out and not use them as I think the honey this time might have been to thick to drip well into troughs."

So it might be a nice toy to play with but you're still going to need an extractor.

Pretty much what the naysayers and gloom and doom merchants have been doing since almost day one ! I think there'll be a few tears at bedtime when next year gets under way...

 

[Hivemaker.]

So it might be a nice toy to play with but you're still going to need an extractor.

Indeed, could leave the flow frames in as normal, then put them into an extractor when full, maybe the flow team will come up with their own design of honey extractor, specifically to take flow frames.

 

[pargyle]

Indeed, could leave the flow frames in as normal, then put them into an extractor when full, maybe the flow team will come up with their own design of honey extractor, specifically to take flow frames.

Yes ... you could just spin the honey out and when it collects in the bottom you just drain it out of a tap on the side straight onto your toast and mashed banana ... perfick.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Pretty much what the naysayers and gloom and doom merchants have been doing since almost day one

I prefer the term realist meself

 

[Thymallus]

Indeed, could leave the flow frames in as normal, then put them into an extractor when full, maybe the flow team will come up with their own design of honey extractor, specifically to take flow frames.

Bit of a bugger uncapping against those plastic cells. A hot air blower to melt the cappings won't work as it will also melt the plastic cells. Oh the molten mess this will make. Might be easier to get a heather honey press and crush the honey out of the cells.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Bit of a bugger uncapping against those plastic cells.

Maybe the answer is to make a flo frame out of wax so that it can be uncapped and put in an extractor if needs be?

 

[Thymallus]

Maybe the answer is to make a flo frame out of wax so that it can be uncapped and put in an extractor if needs be?

Nahh that would never sell. Too low tech.

 

[Ely]

Maybe the answer is to make a flo frame out of wax so that it can be uncapped and put in an extractor if needs be?

Now I'm sure someone invented a solution perfect for this. Something sensible, relatively cheap and practical.

Aha! Here we are!!

 

[Thymallus]

I can't see the honey tap? Some mistake surely!

 

[Ely]

Without the centrifugal force needed to remove most honey due to the viscosity I can imagine once the initial weight of the honey pushing it down the pipe as ebbed, there will be a significant and irretrievable percentage of honey backed up and left in the pipe/frames.

That's 1 of 101 problems I can see popping up.

It seems a very expensive and unnecessary toy to me. Might have its use for entertaining visiting family and friends but not for serious beekeeping.

 

[oliver90owner]

Ha ha. OSR can solidify in next to no time. Ha ha.