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Husband made a woodpecker nest box which has gone up on one of the trees in the drive. Looks just the right size for a swarm
As ericA - but with the additional wrinkle, that I then put 9 frame castellations in the supers.
I think you get just a bit more honey per super, and I like the convenience of loading a full 9 frame super into a 9 frame extractor.
Dusty
it makes sense for the commercial - no faffing around with castellations/spacers and they can whizz off the cappings with their electrict decapper almost back to the frame without leaving too much honey in the cappings tray, doubtful the honey/super is any more than ten frames though., ITLD suggests best results are hoffman spaced super frames.
I converted some supers last year to 10 frame spacing with drawn comb and some of them were over 30lbs, far greater than those with 11 frames.
Cut all the wood ready to make 10 crown boards, just need to make a jig to router the bee escape hole then I can start to groove the side and assemble.
I just cut a 2in hole in the crown boards i have made with a hole borer in the drill, for feeding purposes, if i ever need a bee escape i also have made a Forest board.Cut all the wood ready to make 10 crown boards, just need to make a jig to router the bee escape hole then I can start to groove the side and assemble.
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