Don't know how many of you have used the Bee-o-pac system. This is my first year using it and I have had outstanding results. Just opened it up yesterday and it has worked as perfectly as the company has advertised. I hear a lot of people saying that bees don't draw out on plastic, but I haven't had that problem at all. I was told the same about duragilt and that is all I use and never had an acceptance problem.
Bee-o-pac has to be the most convenient, easy, clean way of doing comb honey. I will post pictures later of my success with it, but doggoneit I am pleased with how it has worked this year.
Disclaimer: Of course you have to be managing your hives for comb honey which is a bit trickier, but wow this is a good system.
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WOW, great for you... I have heard so many people complain about the frames not staying together and that they don't fit the supers well either that I decided not to spend the extra money it cost for bee-o-pac, and just stick with the ross rounds.
Quote from: thomashton on August 22, 2007, 07:58:29 PM
Bee-o-pac has to be the most convenient, easy, clean way of doing comb honey.
I have heard that the hogg half comb is even easier.
I would like to see the pictures but it sounds very cool.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
thomaston. That is good for you, nice when we can feel good about a product we are using. Wonderful day, greatest of life. Cindi
I am trying out Bee-O-Pac but need to get a flow on to see how it works out. It is good to hear that it worked well for you.
The way I used it was:
1) Put a full box of honey above it. This box was full of bees. I put the inner cover with a bee escape between the Bee-O-Pac and full box. All those bees funneled out of the full super into the Bee-o-Pac box.
2) Put on the Bee-o-Pac super literally a half hour before a hard rain. Seems like our late summer/early fall flow began right after that rain.
3) Have kept the bees packed in tight. Right now they are in a colony of 5 mediums (including the Bee-O-Pac) and the 6th one on top full of honey. They could use more room, but I want to give them another week to finish the Bee-o-Pac super.
Its been on for about 3 weeks now and is 70-80 done and capped. It has taken a little longer than a standard medium would have I think, but has been surprisingly easy to get them to work it. My wife is excited at the prospects of taking 128 4oz. comb honey portions to the farmers market. She may be right and we may just clean up with it.
I tried Bee-o-pack this year and it did ok. It was the last supper that I put on and only got half of the frames filled. It will be worth doing again next year. The only issue was that the frames were really tight and it made checking the frames very difficult.
You made the right move by putting a full super of honey above the comb honey--the bees have to be pretty much forced into working it. The method you used is the one I would recommend. If a comb honey super is put on the spring the bees will work and swarm all summer and not move up into it.
It is necessary to sandwich the comb honey super between 2 other honey supers for best results, preferably at the being or during a strong honey flow.
Quote from: Brian D. Bray on August 24, 2007, 11:32:32 PM
You made the right move by putting a full super of honey above the comb honey--the bees have to be pretty much forced into working it. The method you used is the one I would recommend. If a comb honey super is put on the spring the bees will work and swarm all summer and not move up into it.
It is necessary to sandwich the comb honey super between 2 other honey supers for best results, preferably at the being or during a strong honey flow.
I will have to try that technique to get the bees up in the super.