OMF board

[Finman]

Round or square?

What?

 

[Hivemaker.]

What?

Round or square.

 

[Finman]

Round or square.

Boath. IT depends how bees chew it. Bees like more round.
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[Hivemaker.]

Boath.

Any pictures?

 

[Poly Hive]

I thought there was a tradition on well managed forums of not feeding Trolls?

Ho hum....

PH

 

[Finman]

Any pictures?

Yes

 

[user 6228]

72 is huge.

. My ventilation hole is about 15 cm2 in solid floor hives. But all have upper hole on the front wall, 15 mm diameter. It adds air circulation.

Do you leave your windows open all winter too?

 

[Finman]

Do you leave your windows open all winter too?

Yes

 

[Gwr]

Unless you are in a windy spot where the cold air can get channelled into the bottom of the hive.
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I use to run OMF’s for the last 8 year on my national hives and due to being located on a very windy side of a hill and being 18” off the ground I really suffered with weather conditions hindering my hives as I never could get the bees to progress as others do down on the lowlands, my hives never got large enough to swarm and also never give me me more than 5 or 6 jars of honey per hive every year.

For the last 2 years I’ve left the OMG boards in all year in 18 of my 20 hives ( they make the OMG floor fully sealed ) and not only do I now get several kg’s of honey every year from all the hives with floors always in, but the bees get big enough in numbers to split and they start the year off super strong. My 2 control hives are still small and bad producers of anything.

I did set my hive stands up originally with a slope forward so I’ve not suffered from wet puddles collecting on my floors plus i do take the inspection floor out though to clean them regularly which is better than having solid floors where I can’t.

I guess it’s horses for course and locations and weather conditions to make a difference.

 

[Gwr]

Yes

We leave some of our windows cracked open all winter as well, but it’s a very Old house and has plenty of natural leaks - albeit it has lots of roof insulation ( 3 times the government recommend amount )

We also have only wood / coal central heating which draws a lot of air out and through the house.

It’s not for everyone but it works for us.

 

[Hivemaker.]

I’ve not suffered from wet puddles collecting on my floors plus i do take the inspection floor out though to clean them regularly which is better than having solid floors where I can’t.

I predominantly use reversible solid sloping floors, any water runs out easily and the bees keep them fairly clean themselves, unlike mesh floors with slides in where they can't.

 

[oliver90owner]

I thought there was a tradition on well managed forums of not feeding Trolls?

Ho hum....

PH

You calling Hivemaker a troll?

He clearly changed the "2" in Finny's post to square (not round). The 'round' addition clearly befuddled polyhive!

Finny's only mistake was not being able to use a superscrpt/subscript option to denote the "power of 2", so should have typed 2^. Perhaps he simply made a typo and missed the ^ key.

Hivemaker being mischievous at his best, I think, and someone fell for it, hook, line and sinker. One sometimes need at least a tiny semblance of humour before jumping in with a reply like above

 

[Finman]

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Typical Hivemaker's poking.
. He has made professional holes during his whole life. He is expert of holes.

 

[Finman]

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Snow storm arrived from Britain this morning. Bee entrances are closed by snow. IT is good thing, because wind cannot blow into hives.

Specific gravity of new snow is 0.1. So 90% is air. Bees can breathe behind the new snow.

Later in evening forecast is water rain and +4C.

 

[Swarm]

We leave some of our windows cracked open all winter as well, but it’s a very Old house and has plenty of natural leaks - albeit it has lots of roof insulation ( 3 times the government recommend amount )

We also have only wood / coal central heating which draws a lot of air out and through the house.

It’s not for everyone but it works for us.

People tend to forget the funnel up through most of our homes. Bedroom windows always open here, prefer fresh air.

 

[Millet]

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Snow storm arrived from Britain this morning. Bee entrances are closed by snow. IT is good thing, because wind cannot blow into hives.

Specific gravity of new snow is 0.1. So 90% is air. Bees can breathe behind the new snow.

Later in evening forecast is water rain and +4C.

No snow storm here just a light dusting, we have had solid frost for the past five days -11 last night and -12 the night before, so where ever you get your UK weather predictions from they are totally wrong.

 

[Gwr]

I predominantly use reversible solid sloping floors, any water runs out easily and the bees keep them fairly clean themselves, unlike mesh floors with slides in where they can't.

What do you mean by reversible solid sloping floors Hivemaker?

I’ve often wondered if solid wooden floors would be cleaned by the bees, because your right about leaving the slides in on an OMF as they do need human intervention even when the slides are tight up against the mesh.

I’ll be changing my omf with slides and making solid floors over winter now by the look of it.

 

[Hivemaker.]

What do you mean by reversible solid sloping floors Hivemaker?

You can use either side.

 

[Poly Hive]

You are accusing me of a humour failure olly?


Seriously? Check your mirror please.


LOL

PH

 

[Finman]

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Draw humor from this little thing, ^