magnet-man
11-15-2006, 05:05 PM
http://www.alfranseder.de/deutsch/raehmchenkamm.php
Jim Fischer
11-15-2006, 05:58 PM
Many folks have cut off their top bar ends
and replaced them with pins of one sort or
another over the past decades, and this
approach works well, as the bees have less
surface area to propolize.
It works very well.
I've not seen the rotating (PVC?) tube approach
to a frame rest before, but I feel ambivalent
about it. On the one hand, it looks "really
cool", on the other hand, I feel certain that
the bees will soon propolize the heck out of
the underside of the tube where it comes
closest to the bottom of the much larger
"frame rest area" created for the tubes, and
the area around each tube where it passes
through the hive body. At some point, the
tube would seize up, and it would force one
to remove all the frames to clean it off.
Beekeepers are inventive folks.
I hope he does well with his design, but I'd
rather not buy "Revision 1.0" of anything.
magnet-man
11-16-2006, 11:58 AM
I thought the same thing Jim. That tube is going to get glued real well.
brent.roberts
11-16-2006, 02:41 PM
naviate through that site and there is an amazing device for circulating oxalic acid through a complete behive. I think the kill rate would be very complete with this compared to what we get when we just let the vapour go where it will from the bottom.