[Belewsboy]

My hive weights...

 

[tomkat]

Interesting:thumbsup:

 

[grozzie2]

How are you weighing them ?

 

[Belewsboy]

I built a portable scale using a luggage scale...probably accurate to within a pound or so, but it repeats. Takes about a minute a hive to weigh. I check them once a week and every 3 or 4 days during the flow. I find the info pretty cool. I took a reading today and one of the hives gained 31 lbs since Saturday!

 

[philip.devos]

My hive weights...


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Thanks for the proof. Our poplars and locusts still are not in bloom. Do you know or suspect what plants your girls are getting nectar from?

Phil

 

[Belewsboy]

Poplar and blackberry. The blackberries have more blooms this year than I've ever seen. The spike you see on the graph is a result of these two blooming at the same time.

 

[Brad Bee]

I guess you have to take the hive off the stand and put it on the scales to weight it? Or, do you have a set up where you can put the scale under the hive "inside" the stand and weigh it that way?

 

[Belewsboy]

Here's a picture. Lift one side, then the other. Add the two together. Move on to the next hive.