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[Barry]

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216217

This will be formatted according to iddee's post:
http://www.beesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=293274&postcount=22

Once all the topics are covered well, a couple of us will pull it all together to create a very thorough article/faq.
This is a moderated forum, so only the moderator can start a new thread. Our goal here is to expand on the threads that have already been started. New threads will be added along the way.

[tedstruk]

Are there any good internet form sites to record your apiary work?

[iddee]

Are we ready for a safety thread?

I smoked a hive to move it about 5 mile tonight. On the way home, the smoker turned over in the bed of my truck. A small plastic bottle of two cycle oil melted and caught. I had an oil fire running down the length of the truck bed.

How many others have had smoker fires?

[drobbins]

>>I had an oil fire running down the length of the truck bed.

dang bud:eek:
dodo happens don't it
you've certainly warned a bunch of beginners about what not to do
live fire and hydrocarbons in the back of the truck is a no no:)
hope you didn't damage the paint to bad

Dave

[Barry]

iddee, yes, I'll add a few more threads this next week.

[iddee]

Dave, Rhino Tough bed liner. No harm done.

Beginners, do as I say, not as I do. :rolleyes: :eek: :D :D

[odfrank]

You should know by now that smokers refuse to stay lite until you drive home with them in the bed of your truck.
I was with a beekeeper who started a grass fire lighting his smoker, almost burnt down a house.

[RayMarler]

I smoked a hive to move it about 5 mile tonight. On the way home, the smoker turned over in the bed of my truck. A small plastic bottle of two cycle oil melted and caught. I had an oil fire running down the length of the truck bed.

How many others have had smoker fires?

I drilled and pop-rivitted a coper 3/4" pipe threaded nipple into the tip of my smoker, and put a 3/4 pipe cap on it whenever I'm done with it. That snuffs it right out.

[Michael Bush]

I bought the metal smoker box from Betterbee. It works by itself, but I also plug the spout of the smoker with green grass.

[tecumseh]

iddee writes:
I had an oil fire running down the length of the truck bed.

tecumseh> I wonder what that look like for those driving behind you iddee?

iddee continues with: How many others have had smoker fires?

tecumseh looks down at his lap and twiddles his thumbs while whistling 'dixie'.

[Alex Cantacuzene]

Hi, well my smoker gets a wine bottle cork in the funnel when I'm done. It goes out grinning......Take care and have fun

[chillard willard]

Are we ready for a safety thread?

I smoked a hive to move it about 5 mile tonight. On the way home, the smoker turned over in the bed of my truck. A small plastic bottle of two cycle oil melted and caught. I had an oil fire running down the length of the truck bed.

How many others have had smoker fires?

HA HA, I sorry iddee, But would of loved to have seen that, as long as no ones hurt right?

I recall one time working for a local beek and i was useing an aluminum smoker that someone had just given me.Now, I always plug my smoker before travelling but this one time. One of the other employees stuck all our smokers away and neither him nor the boss man were fans of pluging the smokers. their idea was that they would stay ligh for the next yard we go to. Well, the smokers were sitting in one of the 5 empty waxed dipped supers that were straped to the back part of the flat deck, behind the other waxed dipped supers that had frames in them.
We were heading to the next beeyard through a rather busy part of town and we were enjoying a real nice conversation on bees, totally oblivious to the fact that the truck had caught fire, we couldn't see the flames because of the other supers stacked on the cab side of the truck. I think it started with my smoker, it was nothing but a pool of aluminum afterwards. when we came to a red light the boss man looked in his mirror and saw a wall of orange flame and yelled "FIRE". We must have looked like a rocket truck going down that road. we lost quit a few super and the fire trucks came though luckily we had put it out by the time they got there. luckily again is that there was a creek beside us too.
Beekeeping, the adventure continues.

[chillard willard]

PS

I've always been the type to be able look back on these event and have a good laugh

[peggjam]

Dad had that happen with a lit cigerette, and a load of hay...the guy riding with him didn't smoke in the truck after that..:doh:

[standman]

How about a title? The Wisdom of BeeSource. Even if you offered it online, you should offer printed versions. I would buy a copy to consult when the computer was not handy.