Shopping for Deep Super Frames

[squareandcompasses]

I am a fairly new beekeeper (5 years) and I have 4 hive currently. I am in the process of preparing for next spring and plan to have 10 new hives. I am looking for deep super frames w/ foundation. Any kind of frame from completely plastic, wooden with plastic foundation, or wooden with wasx foundation. I am looking in a quantity between 200 and 250.

Bill

[bee_wrangler]

Pierco frames are what i have started to use this year. They are made with food grade plastic. Some other plastic frame and foundations are not. My bees have drawn very nice comb on the black frames. I would reccomend these from pierco directly.


Dan

[BEES4U]

I prefer the black ones because I can see the eggs and larvae easier.
I run 100% black Pierco foundation in my queen mating nucs.
I bought 200 of the 4 pound packages from OHB on 4/15/08 and 3 of us shook them all out on 4/16/08.
All of the packages were shook out into my new mating nucs that have a 6.25" top bar. That's a total of 400 nucs (We used a chop saw to cut the Pierco foundation that is used to snap into a saw kerf top and bottom bar. That's another option for you. Make the wooden frames and snap in the foundation
The bees drew out the foundation 100% perfectly and they were not sprayed with syrup!
Here are your advantages;
1.0 No frames to assemble
2.0 No sagging foundation on the wires.
3.0 Easier storage
4.0 No wax moth damage while in storage.
5.0 Nice full frames of brood from the underside of the top bar to the bottom.
6. It is thought by some that the plastic helps to insulate the bees. i can not prove or disprone the idea.
7.0 More time to do other things in life!
8.0 I have had the "old fashion" frames in hive that were knocked over and the eylets cut the frame wires.
When the above happens to the Pierco the frame is not lost.
9.0 You really can not appreciate the Pierco frames unril you have assembled the old wooden frames, put in eylets,wired them, embedded the foundation and branded them.

I am sure there will be other postings.
Regards,
Ernie

[Michael Bush]

Mann Lake PF100s are well accepted, cheap and 4.95mm cell size...

[bee_wrangler]

pierco frames are made from food grade plastic. Mann Lake not sure of the plastic source.