Full super, no spare

[Hivemaker.]

Never known a beekeeper having to many supers,i have some colonys at the moment on double brood,4 supers full,and been adding number five. Two is most definately not enough,not even enough room for the bee's let alone the honey,and the original poster in this thread needs to get supers.

 

[Poly Hive]

Correct.
PH

 

[David P]

original poster seems to have gone off in a sulk, not sure why. Look on the bright side if he asks the question over in that other place he will get a 4 page discussion on how he has the wrong sort of bee, the wrong sort of queen, the wrong sort of hive, the wrong sort of varroa etc etc. the one thing that wont get answered is his original question.


David

 

[Frisbee]

original poster seems to have gone off in a sulk, not sure why. Look on the bright side if he asks the question over in that other place he will get a 4 page discussion on how he has the wrong sort of bee, the wrong sort of queen, the wrong sort of hive, the wrong sort of varroa etc etc. the one thing that wont get answered is his original question.


David

No! no! no! - you are so wrong..................he will have asked the wrong question in the wrong forum and it will be deleted or moved and then and only then will he get - "a 4 page discussion on how he has the wrong sort of bee, the wrong sort of queen, the wrong sort of hive, the wrong sort of varroa etc etc. the one thing that wont get answered is his original question".

The other week a spammer had started to post in the blogs, I went on the general natter to point it out and got a pm telling me I had let them know by the wrong method, and now it had been dealt with my post has been deleted as it was no longer relevant, which I kinda don't mind, but it's so petty and small minded. Maybe they're short of posting space.........

Frisbee

 

[jezd]

p.s. B&Q were selling jigsaws and routers for £15 each special offer. I don't know whether they've got any left. H. Pete kindly donated some plywood as well. Good on yer Pete. JC.

JC, what was the offer details? model/make etc

Cheerz

Jez

 

[David P]

Bet ya a pound to a penny though that his bees are the wrong colour.

 

[JCBrum]

Here's a pic of the box. Jigsaw was the same make but I already had a thirty year old Black & Decker one !

 

[BKF Admin]

Thats the router I use,I have it mounted upside down on a tool table.

I make loads of box rails with it.

Its been going 2 years now without any problems,The idea was to just burn it out and bin it but it keeps going.

 

[JCBrum]

B&Q at Halesowen, nr Birmingham, had pallet loads of them.

 

[jezd]

will check local b&q's thanks

 

[colin]

Yes it is right we have four supers on hives now because the lime trees are produceing plus the bees are working the clover here in Lincoln.
colin

 

[Melbourne12]

I'm afraid that we made what is obviously the classic newbie mistake of underestimating the need for supers. We only had three supers for two hives, and frames made up only for one of those. The bees seemed to be expanding their respective colonies so slowly that we thought maybe next year for honey from our new hives.

Then came the hot weather and a sudden explosive growth in colony size. We've quickly added our three supers, and this weekend we'll be rapidly assembling three more.

Maybe I need to buy another two!

 

[hedgerow pete]

normal to me is four supers per hive and thats with made up frames of foundation sheets incerted and ready to go, if in a ver tight spot i have removed the super at the bottom of the stack taken it home spun out the honey and refitted it at the top of the stack the next night so i a push you can just get by with three


but what for it its petes rant time!
thats for normal bees for the new ( hated by me ) super bees i am sure someone here will say some thing like they are on there tenth super this year and if thier hive gets any bigger they will steps to get to the top super

 

[Baggyone]

Thornes sale this weekend and supers are only 11 quid each. I've only one hive with one super on and a spare all made up ready to go on but I'm in for 4 on saturday and another beginner hive if I can get one too. I'd rather have too much gear and be prepared than not enough and get burnt.

 

[baggieboing]

Thornes sale this weekend and supers are only 11 quid each. I've only one hive with one super on and a spare all made up ready to go on but I'm in for 4 on saturday and another beginner hive if I can get one too. I'd rather have too much gear and be prepared than not enough and get burnt.

Wish I could get up there as desperate for some new gear, but a bit of a trek from SE London.

 

[Frisbee]

Wish I could get up there as desperate for some new gear, but a bit of a trek from SE London.

They have a branch in Windsor too - 3 miles from j6 of M4 and 7 miles from j15 of M25.

Frisbee

 

[East Yorks New Bee]

From a copy of an email from Thornes about Wragby Sale day:

If Wragby is too far, we have Sale Days at our three branches coming up -

Newburgh, Fife - 14th August, 3.00 - 5.00pm and 15th August 9.30am to 12.00 noon

Windsor, Berkshire - 12th September, 10.00am to 1.00pm

Stockbridge, Hampshire, - 26th September - 10.00am to 1.00pm