Removing from gums

[papa bear]

I got in trade for some work i had done, two colony's that an old man had in old handmade bee gums. the brood camber is the size of a standard deep super, and has a cross bar with a top like a inner cover that the comb is built to. there is a vent like hole in the top
I took the hive home and put deep supers with drawn comb on top. I hope they will work there way up
Is there anything else that i should or could do to encourage them to move up in to the new supers?

[fish_stix]

Try putting a frame or 2 of open brood in the deep. Otherwise, treat it like a cutout and put the old comb into empty frames, then into your deeps. Seal up the gum so they can't get back in again.

[S.M.N,Bee]

Papa

There was a video posted on another forum that showed two Cuban bee keepers removing bees from a gum. I don't remember the tital but hers what I remember.

They leaned the gum up against an open hive of some kind.
One bee keeper smoked the hole in the bottom of the gum with a smoker.
The other bee keeper raped the side of the gum continuously with a hive tool.
After about five to ten minutes the bees came boiling out the top of the gum and walked into the new hive. This included the queen.
They them put the gum back were they had it with some bees left to start a new colony.

I know it sounds crazy but it did work.
The video is on You Tube

John

[papa bear]

thanks, fish_stix, doing them as a removal was what i thought of first. thought i would see if there was a more gentle way

thanks S.N.M. . i will search for it on you tube. i have done that when getting out of a tree.

watching for them to swarm. i figured that brood chamber was so full, they would.
my best hive swarmed yesterday. they went into the roughest brier patch the could find. where's all the bees that land in a pretty place, like on the videos you see?