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[Millet]

A cheap secondhand petrol mower with a powered drive. Remove the blade and make a table secured to the metal canopy above the motor to put a couple of supers on.
Might work?

No chance Good idea though.

 

[george]

How about moving the hives to the end of the field where you have access , reverse straight to them with the pick up ?

 

[For want of a better word]

Hired one of those powered muck truck contraptions... bloody dangerous on anything than the flat.... have a tendency to tip over.

The Defender and plant trailer we use is brilliant..... trailer has a back that forms a ramp so easy peezie to load and the Defender will pull up anything knocking the old Vitara into a cocked hat.

The other option for the yellow bees would be a Flow hive... little bottles would be so much easier to carry?


Yeghes da

 

[enrico]

My muck truck is electric, never tipped over despite using it on the side of a mountain, obviously it is best to go up and down and not sideways across the hill but that's common sense! The only downside is their is no steering so you have to be strong enough to lift the rear slightly to turn it. I can only sing its praise
E

 

[Stiffy]

How about moving the hives to the end of the field where you have access , reverse straight to them with the pick up ?

Wish I could. I used to have the hives against a hedgerow close to where I park up, in those days, I just had black bees. The inevitable happened and the little monsters decided that the public footpath should be closed and if anyone tried to get passed they risked their wrath!
Rather than lose the site, I then changed half my bees to Buckfast and moved them away from the footpath, down to the base of the hill. As well as having calmer bees, this also meant the honey production tripled (and some), hence my current predicament.
I now keep mainly Buckfast but still have blacks for their wax and the little honey produced in hives close (1/2 mile) to an apiary of one of the black bee Mafioso.
Think I will hire a mucktruck and see how it performs, if it fails I will strap a saddle to my back and donkey the supers up the hill as previously.
S

 

[Millet]

Wish I could. I used to have the hives against a hedgerow close to where I park up, in those days, I just had black bees. The inevitable happened and the little monsters decided that the public footpath should be closed and if anyone tried to get passed they risked their wrath!
Rather than lose the site, I then changed half my bees to Buckfast and moved them away from the footpath, down to the base of the hill. As well as having calmer bees, this also meant the honey production tripled (and some), hence my current predicament.
I now keep mainly Buckfast but still have blacks for their wax and the little honey produced in hives close (1/2 mile) to an apiary of one of the black bee Mafioso.
Think I will hire a mucktruck and see how it performs, if it fails I will strap a saddle to my back and donkey the supers up the hill as previously.
S

Just a thought but can you not strap several supers at a time to a sled of some kind and drag them up the hill with you pickup .

 

[Stiffy]

Just a thought but can you not strap several supers at a time to a sled of some kind and drag them up the hill with you pickup .

Nice thought, but my Hijet pickup would end up at the bottom. It can carry nearly a ton but is only two wheel drive with a 1300cc engine

 

[Millet]

Nice thought, but my Hijet pickup would end up at the bottom. It can carry nearly a ton but is only two wheel drive with a 1300cc engine

I do not me drive down the hill, use a length of rope tied to the back of the pick up on flat land, if the angle is not right bang a round fence post in or use a tree to guide the rope so it drags in the chosen direction, a jenny wheel tied to a tree will stop any bark damage and it will 100% save your legs and lungs.. lol.

https://www.premierplanthire.co.uk/specialist-equipment-for-hire/jenny-wheel

 

[wightbees]

Hire a strong kid and sit and watch

 

[For want of a better word]

Hire a strong kid and sit and watch

Yeghes da