Hefting hives - unreliable/useless?

[For want of a better word]

Now your conflating scope with anchoring depth s and what about the science of intermediate ports calculations?

Derek : (waking up at a 3am low tide with the depth alarm just about go to off)

What ever happens to the rule of 12ths... never works in the Solent......hope you are somewhere warmer than the Arctic blast funnelling under Brunell's Bridge over the Tamar this afternoon !

 

[user 6228]

What ever happens to the rule of 12ths... never works in the Solent......hope you are somewhere warmer than the Arctic blast funnelling under Brunell's Bridge over the Tamar this afternoon !

that was a wee while ago
and it was here sheltering from a SW gale
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&authuser=0&q=isleornsay&aq=&vps=2&jsv=471b&sll=57.146292,-5.807938&sspn=0.012502,0.042272&vpsrc=0&t=h&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&ct=clnk&cd=1&spell=1

Weighing hives is a thing that in familiar circumstances it maybe sufficient to use guess work and feel. But like judging the depth of an anchorage sometimes needs precision. This night it was down to the last 0.2 to 0.5m under the keel and it needed the calculation when deciding to anchor and nearly all the chain.

 

[mbc]

, I know the target weight necessary to get my bees to snow melt,

Beekeeping in the UK is more of a gamble as no two winters are the same.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Great pics where's the bee suit?

Go to the pic at minute 53:37 on Mike's "The Sustainable Apiary" talk that Hivemaker. posted. He might say "swarm mode", I suppose...

 

[Outlander]

Most of mine are lite, and they were fed well, greedy little *******s.

 

[itma]

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I want my colonies heavy enough to make it to spring. Because I have snow on the ground until April, and most years can't get to the bees with feed until enough of the snow melts to be able to get my truck to the bees, I feed the required amount to do the job. Because I've weighed my hives for so many years, I know the target weight necessary to get my bees to snow melt, and don't need snowshoes and a toboggan to get feed to the bees.

Mike, how would you do things if you didn't know whether or not there would be any snow at all during the winter - but there might possibly be snow on the ground for a whole month (and maybe more)?

 

[Michael Palmer]

The same way itma. We never know what the winter will bring. Cold or warm, snow or not. Our bees still need feed from the end of the flow in September until it re-starts in April. Feeding to a target weight insures that no matter what, the bees won't starve before I can get to them.