I did another cutout Saturday using a KTBH. I have to say, as rabid as I am about TBHs, they suck for cutouts. I may have to break down and buy Langs for other long distance cut outs.
This particular cutout was 2 hours away. Because the bars were new, with no propolis, they slid during transport. Notches would solve this in the future, but then it creates nooks for SHB.
There are 3 parts to the video, the first is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbs0go2KAs
part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kd8flqqeU
part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ80CEba1UE
Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.
Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!
You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...
Quote from: beedad on May 11, 2009, 09:04:19 PM
Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.
Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!
Not original, I got the idea from a Polish Fellow. I'm still playing with the size of the clip and if I really need 2 per bar.
Yea, the wax melt.... I like it. Maybe tho I should show that in fast forward for people.
Quote from: Michael Bush on May 11, 2009, 09:21:27 PM
You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...
I'm all for that. Show me a design that's simple.
I gave some though to paint stir sticks (about 30mm) suspended below bars by string. Then I'd place the brood comb on the paint sticks and a 3rd string would keep it upright. But it would still suffer from rocking forces during transport.
Excellent video..thanks for sharing your catch with us..now I find myself wondering if there are swarms in any of the old junky abandoned travel trailers I see out on the back roads.
so how did the other two cut outs go?
did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!
G3
Quote from: G3farms on May 17, 2009, 07:27:46 AM
so how did the other two cut outs go?
did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!
G3
Lol, this was a different hive, the other 3 will be later, after I get a key to the gate.
really good set of videos, and the review is a great recap.
how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?
Quote from: beedad on May 17, 2009, 08:32:34 PM
how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?
We were hunting their land for little black burnt rocks, as the video said. A meteorite fell there 15FEB09. I found a 15 gram specimen near that hive. I'm a meteoriticist amongst other things. Someone saw them and I inquired with the landowner if they wanted them gone. They had already exterminated a hive in a disused trailer the previous year.