Split nucs from normal poly box

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It is easy to split poly box with table saw and make warm nucs.

With hand saw the result needs luck.

I do not remember, how long I have done those. I have made missing wall from styrofoam insulating board, but that soft wall makes more nuisance than advantage. Bees and ants shew the wall soon.

But it is not a big job to do a missing wall from a water proof thin ply and tree fibre insulating board, which ants cannot bite.

Make a mold, into where you can pile the hive parts, glue them and you get a missing wall in right dimensions.

The gloor us easy:
- Water proof laminated ply
- 3 wood sticks
- 3 cut nails in sticks that the box does not slide when you move the nuc

As a roof you need only a piece of Kingspan, but they are not long living. Perhaps 2 years. For long distance wood under insulation stands longer.

 

[Finman]

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Before those individual small nucs I used 30 years multi chamber nucs, where normal box is devided into 3-4 cells with walls.

Those are really unpractical compared to small nucs. Polywalls are so warm that even a small nucs does not need next door neighbour to keep brood warm.

I move often the nucs with car to another yard when I found the nucs. Small ones are really easy to lift. Plus losses of virgins in multi chamber boxes.

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