migrating/pollination

[high rate of speed]

Anything with a handle is manual.

[Keith Jarrett]

Anything with a handle is manual.

And..... Anything without is a.........

[high rate of speed]

And anything without isnt beekeeping.

[Keith Jarrett]

And anything without isnt beekeeping.

Ok Manual. lol

[high rate of speed]

Thats the sad part about our industry.Besides forklifts and some automated extracting,our job is all about manual.:

[Dan Williamson]

Dan,

It works like a ice block graber or battery graber. It ables you to grab a double deep and move it to another pallet without bending over and bear hugging the hive to move it.It works with one or two persons. I work by myself so this helps me move hives around the yard easly.
A picture is worth a thousand words, I will see if I can post one.

I would love to see it. I manhandled hives this past pollinating season and it nearly killed me. Standing in 5" of water with beards on the front of hives and them PO'ed as I try to bend over and pick them up to move them was not my idea of fun. I gotta come up with a better way to work by myself.

[BEES4U]

You will need a good fork lift with side shift and a truck.
You will need to gather data on the cost per unit of use/production for both items.
Regards,
Ernie Lucas Apiaries

[sqkcrk]

You will need a good fork lift with side shift and a truck.
You will need to gather data on the cost per unit of use/production for both items.
Regards,
Ernie Lucas Apiaries

Sideshift is nice. But I know only one of about a dozen comm. beekeepers who has one. I think Hackenberg has it on his Bobcat. One can sideshift by skidding.

[Flyer Jim]

My boom has side shift......if you push hard enough.

[JohnK and Sheri]

Most commercial outfits we know have either a Swinger or Hummerbee. Both have standard side shift.
Sheri

[Tom G. Laury]

Side Shift???

I guess they mean when your buddy had to tie off the end of the boom to help you swing that first row. And then the second row too.

If you don't know what I'm talking about sorry

[Flyer Jim]

Tom, I know what you mean. Where I live it's hard to find a flat spot big enough to check your oil, much less unload a load of bees.

[BEES4U]

So now you know why the bee boom has the metal loop on the end of the boom.
I carried a shovel and dug leveling ramps for my old 1954 International with a home made boom.
For those who do not know what we are talking about a boom truck must be somewhat level in two directions. ( front to back & side to side.)
Boom loading is so much fun when you have a wind too.
A side shift is a must have item.

Regards,
Ernie

[Keith Jarrett]

For those who do not know
Regards,
Ernie

Ya, for those who don't know.......

Build in, a self leveling hyd micro switch system. You just have to be smarter than the boom.

[BEES4U]

You must mean those pretty flashing lights on a Payne, pain, boom.
Ernie

[Keith Jarrett]

You must mean those pretty flashing lights on a Payne, pain, boom.
Ernie

No... no payne

[loggermike]

I never could quite figure those Payne lights out. (anyone know?) I 'm using one on a 1 ton but just level it by guessing.
It sure is fun loading in a strong wind.
We have an old forklift with side shift.I don't think I could load anything without it. It also has "forward launch". Found that one accidentally the other night!
---Mike

[Tom G. Laury]

Yeah the Paynes were the Caddilacs weren't they? My electric loaders all had side to side, fore&aft plus raise & lower headframe. And if something goes wrong, you can always unload by hand!

[BEES4U]

Try to stop the red light from blinking and get the boom into the green light.
It is good on paper. But, after a while when you are tired and you have been stung a few times it becomes mentally challanging to say the least.

I have not brought up the subject of cables, electric cord reels, and the up and down push buttons.

Ernie

[high rate of speed]

The only sideshift one needs is from one hive to another.