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I haven’t smoked for 40 years but am thinking of restarting! For the purpose of replacing fondant tubs when lots of bees are in the almost empty tub. By blowing them a quick puff of smoke. I think it would be much easier than lighting my smoker.
Any one else do this & does it work?
 
I haven’t smoked for 40 years but am thinking of restarting! For the purpose of replacing fondant tubs when lots of bees are in the almost empty tub. By blowing them a quick puff of smoke. I think it would be much easier than lighting my smoker.
Any one else do this & does it work?
Well you certainly got my attention, it’s time you challenged your thoughts. Nicotine is a very powerful addictive substance. You gave up inhaling thousands of toxic chemicals and your body repaired itself. To even consider using again for whatever reason is bonkers. And as a side thought ~how does blowing smoke on them, help them?
 
What about using one of those electronic api smoker things?

The tobacco route seems abit like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, and then hitting yourself with the hammer after.
 
Great way to re-addict yourself & end up smoking again. One of the worst health "choices" you can make.
And the practicalities in a veil!
got a friend who gave up smoking in his fifties, always gave me a hard time for not giving up (but I eventually did a few years later when I was forty) Dennis is now eighty three but started smoking again on reaching eighty - because he was bored!!
 
Well you certainly got my attention, it’s time you challenged your thoughts. Nicotine is a very powerful addictive substance. You gave up inhaling thousands of toxic chemicals and your body repaired itself. To even consider using again for whatever reason is bonkers. And as a side thought ~how does blowing smoke on them, help them?
it does not they get aggressive when nictone smake it near them, I used to have a 'helper' who would stand near when I opened a hive, who would be smaking a cigarette, the Bees really did not like it, when I told him to go away they calmed right down
 
Just buy a can of liquid smoke . I still use fabispray which I think is discontinued now but there are others. I always leave a can at the apiary just in case of emergencies.
 
it does not they get aggressive when nictone smake it near them, I used to have a 'helper' who would stand near when I opened a hive, who would be smaking a cigarette, the Bees really did not like it, when I told him to go away they calmed right down

Which is odd when considered in conjunction with the beekeepers who used a pipe fed through their veil to provide smoke. Perhaps that was just a dream...

James
 
Just buy a can of liquid smoke . I still use fabispray which I think is discontinued now but there are others. I always leave a can at the apiary just in case of emergencies.
I've never seen any for sale & can't find any on a Google search.
Got any links?
 
got a friend who gave up smoking in his fifties, always gave me a hard time for not giving up (but I eventually did a few years later when I was forty) Dennis is now eighty three but started smoking again on reaching eighty - because he was bored!!
Must be bored and rich, have you seen the prices. Around 40 you say, that would be about my time. Did not tell a soul and fully enjoyed betting others who could give up at same time even though I had already quit, they quickly realised they had been had so wouldn't pay up 😀
 
I haven’t smoked for 40 years but am thinking of restarting! For the purpose of replacing fondant tubs when lots of bees are in the almost empty tub. By blowing them a quick puff of smoke. I think it would be much easier than lighting my smoker.
Any one else do this & does it work?
Cabin fever thinking , get yersen out for a walk to clear your wrong think head.
 
Must be bored and rich
Certainly not rich, a welder, council house all his lie, with a mediocre NCB pension (he shifted it to a private pension after a snakeoil seller missold it to him even after I begged him not to) and his brood (especially his son) snaffles up anything he has spare
 
I haven’t smoked for 40 years but am thinking of restarting! For the purpose of replacing fondant tubs when lots of bees are in the almost empty tub. By blowing them a quick puff of smoke. I think it would be much easier than lighting my smoker.
Any one else do this & does it work?
The way I top up is to make sure the replacement tub has about 15mm of space at the top so when I take the old tub off I simply bang the old one onto the new tub. The bees fall into the 15mm space and I then swiftly plonk the new tub back on the crownboard.
No need for smoke. 😁
 
Certainly not rich, a welder, council house all his lie, with a mediocre NCB pension (he shifted it to a private pension after a snakeoil seller missold it to him even after I begged him not to) and his brood (especially his son) snaffles up anything he has spare
That is not good. I spend quite a lot of time in the S Yorks area halfway between Barnsley and Doncaster so know quite a bit of miners backgrounds. The area was absolutely decimated when the mines closed, there was no plan for what would come after.. They are now recovering somewhat but the damage has been done in terms of dereliction drugs crime and most importantly moral. They have retained something of the past and that is of community. They are hard tough people and I like them. They had a bit of notoriety but it is what attracted me to the area, they burnt an effigy and marched on the death of MT, there were and are mixed feelings about that even now. Unfortunately the gov's of Tony Blair did absolutely nothing for them, shameful
 
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