8-frame plastic excluders?

[MichelleB]

OK, maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but does anybody know where I can get 8-frame plastic queen excluders?

And, if not, has anybody cut down the 10-frame plastic excluders with success?

Thanks!

[drobbins]

Brushy Mountain has the metal ones
if you want plastic I'd call em
they have stuff that's not in the online catalog

Dave

[Garry Forsythe]

I sell them and so does Betterbee.

[Michael Bush]

I've only bought the metal ones from Brushy Mt.

[BULLSEYE BILL]

I've cut the plastic ones in two for use with my nucs. Tablesaw did a nice clean cut.

Brushy Mountain and Betterbee have the most eight frame equipment available that I know of.

[Michael Bush]

I was all excited to hear that Betterbee had 8 frame equipment. I looked in the catalog and got even more excited since they have the foam hive top feeders and slatted racks etc. Then I saw they are all 14" wide. All of mine are 13 3/4" wide as are Brushy Mt's equipment and Miller Bee Supply's equipment. I wish we could get this standardized. :(

[amymcg]

MB -

Betterbee uses 7/8 wood for their equipment so that might account for the larger width. Inner hive dimensions should be the same. . .

you should call and ask them.

[MichelleB]

I just woke up this morning (before reading this) to look up something else at BetterBee, and lo and behold-- 8-Frame PLASTIC EXCLUDERS! I swear they weren't there last week.

Wheeee!

Okay, I'm set. Thanks guys.

[ January 27, 2007, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Lupine ]

[Michael Bush]

If you don't care about standardization you could make eight frame hives as small as 13 1/2" and have the same space left over with eight frames as you have with a ten frame hive. Apparently eight frame hives have been made from 13 3/4" to 14 1/4" in the past. I have plenty of inside room, so if they were 7/8" thick and 13 3/4" wide on the outside, they would work fine. But when the outside dimensions change then the covers don't fit and the bottom boards don't fit and the excluders stick out a quarter of an inch etc.

But in the East it seems that 13 3/4" is the most common size and I'd love to see that become the standard. Especially since, for many years, Brushy Mt. has made that size and they were the only ones listing eight frame equipment and a variety of eight frame accessories.