Weighing hives

[enrico]

Think about the young girl from Devizes in the limerick. If she weighed herself with one foot on each of two scales, side by side, left foot on left scale, right foot on right scale, she would have to add together both weights registered on each of the two scales to arrive at her total weight.

I just think a mental image might help you with this problem!

CVB

Yes but.....
If she stood with the right foot on the floor and weighed her left foot and vice versa. It wouldn't work!!!!!
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[Frizzaldo]

IT is not easy to hang 50 kg hive in air, when you get the same information from the back side of the hive. It tells that there are enough food there.

I believe it went under the hive, this was the thread:
https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42599
looking at the broodminder though it looks like it only goes under the front of the hive so obviously does the multiplication to get the total weight itself.

 

[Finman]

I believe it went under the hive, this was the thread:
https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42599
looking at the broodminder though it looks like it only goes under the front of the hive so obviously does the multiplication to get the total weight itself.

You may do such science about this issue as you want. But it has no value.

But to weigh daily honey crop and weigh winter food store is very different problems.

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[oliver90owner]

What would be the answer Oliver to weigh the hole hive in one . How far from the true weight by weighing each side would you be ,

Answered by later posters - a standard method of weighing long trucks on shorter weighbridges.

The seesaw part was added to demonstrate that any mass exactly over the fulcrum will not provide any weight along the plank, while equal masses can provide different forces at different distances from the fulcrum. And, yes, weight is a force while mass is not.

Think wheelbarrow, if you want. It too works on the simple principle of moments - where force equals mass multiplied by the distance from the fulcrum. Simple GCSE Physics.

The suggestion of weighing anyone with one foot on the ground is simply silly. The sum of the two weights would depend on how much force was applied to the scale each time - all or virtually none! There are some physical constraints involved - like being level and rigid.

 

[enrico]

What would be the answer Oliver to weigh the hole hive in one . How far from the true weight by weighing each side would you be ,

Answered by later posters - a standard method of weighing long trucks on shorter weighbridges.

The seesaw part was added to demonstrate that any mass exactly over the fulcrum will not provide any weight along the plank, while equal masses can provide different forces at different distances from the fulcrum. And, yes, weight is a force while mass is not.

Think wheelbarrow, if you want. It too works on the simple principle of moments - where force equals mass multiplied by the distance from the fulcrum. Simple GCSE Physics.

The suggestion of weighing anyone with one foot on the ground is simply silly. The sum of the two weights would depend on how much force was applied to the scale each time - all or virtually none! There are some physical constraints involved - like being level and rigid.

That's me.....simple and silly and an 'F' in GCSE Physics!

 

[Finman]

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Meanwhile members read these answers, they can go out and weigh with different ways their hives and get answers.

Further more, you can over winter you hives without weighing.

 

[Finman]

That's me.....simple and silly and an 'F' in GCSE Physics!

I like bathroom scale physics. BSP.

 

[Ian123]

anyone think people may be over thinking this

 

[Finman]

anyone think people may be over thinking this

As we say, to do from a fly a bull.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

What would be the answer Oliver to weigh the hole hive in one . How far from the true weight by weighing each side would you be ,

Answered by later posters - a standard method of weighing long trucks on shorter weighbridges.

The seesaw part was added to demonstrate that any mass exactly over the fulcrum will not provide any weight along the plank, while equal masses can provide different forces at different distances from the fulcrum. And, yes, weight is a force while mass is not.

Think wheelbarrow, if you want. It too works on the simple principle of moments - where force equals mass multiplied by the distance from the fulcrum. Simple GCSE Physics.

The suggestion of weighing anyone with one foot on the ground is simply silly. The sum of the two weights would depend on how much force was applied to the scale each time - all or virtually none! There are some physical constraints involved - like being level and rigid.

Some years ago a few of us persuaded a youth to try to lift his own weight by standing in a dustbin and pulling up the handles at each side. No matter how he strained he couldn't do it.

 

[Millet]

Some years ago a few of us persuaded a youth to try to lift his own weight by standing in a dustbin and pulling up the handles at each side. No matter how he strained he couldn't do it.

That's easy.. lifting ones hive with one hand is a different matter...

 

[enrico]

Some years ago a few of us persuaded a youth to try to lift his own weight by standing in a dustbin and pulling up the handles at each side. No matter how he strained he couldn't do it.

Thank god.....someone else with a sense of humour!

 

[Angry_Mob]

Weighed my hives today. Does 30kg sound light for Abelo 14x12 poly hives?

 

[Finman]

Weighed my hives today. Does 30kg sound light for Abelo 14x12 poly hives?

You can open the hive and look how much it has capped frames.

 

[Hivemaker.]

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Further more, you can over winter you hives without weighing.

You can, but weighing is good, can also save a lot of money.

 

[Poly Hive]

There may be many many variables in beekeeping but there is one truth.

Dead bees make no honey.

Feed.

PH

 

[Finman]

You can, but weighing is good, can also save a lot of money.

I mean. To calibrate, what 30 kg means in your hive. Yes, I weigh my double box hives. One box hives I feed so full as they take.

 

[Hivemaker.]

I mean. To calibrate, what 30 kg means in your hive. Yes, I weigh my double box hives. One box hives I feed so full as they take.

Weigh all of them here up to the weight required, they would certainly take more, but it is not needed.

 

[Millet]

Weighed my hives today. Does 30kg sound light for Abelo 14x12 poly hives?

I like to get my hives up to around 100lb/ 45 kilo .. at the end of feeding.. that is brood + half or double brood abelo boxes on wooden floors which are also in with that weight..

 

[enrico]

I like to get my hives up to around 100lb/ 45 kilo .. at the end of feeding.. that is brood + half or double brood abelo boxes on wooden floors which are also in with that weight..

I only got for 60lbs and there is usually still loads left in spring
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