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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => TOP BAR HIVES - WARRE HIVES - LONG HIVES => Topic started by: Grandma_DOG on June 02, 2009, 02:10:52 PM

Title: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Grandma_DOG on June 02, 2009, 02:10:52 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqZlOCB2NXI

These suckers tried to abscond twice. Comb was so new it ripped repeatedly.


Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Highlandsfreedom on June 03, 2009, 12:36:55 AM
I really enjoy your videos!! :-D
Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: beedad on June 05, 2009, 08:50:29 PM
keep the videos coming!  maybe with soft comb you could try to wrap the comb to the top bar with cotton string.
Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Grandma_DOG on June 15, 2009, 08:47:50 PM
Quote from: beedad on June 05, 2009, 08:50:29 PM
keep the videos coming!  maybe with soft comb you could try to wrap the comb to the top bar with cotton string.

I need to make another video of the aftermath of the cutouts and their interaction with the hairclips. Odd restoration by the bees, bent combs, etc.  I'm not convinced I like hairclips for cutouts. For the odd comb collapse, fine.  But I think I have to build frames for a cutout.
Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: luvin honey on June 16, 2009, 12:48:50 AM
I've always wondered what happened to the clips afterwards :) I can't remember the specifics, but I also wondered if they got in the way of closing up the bars or if the clips were strapped in so that they hung completely below, or maybe they are small enough to avoid all the above problems? Great video!
Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Cheryl on June 16, 2009, 12:54:59 AM
I had really bad luck with hair clips on brand-new comb. I'll save the hair clip method for sturdy, older comb from now on. New comb does OK (not great, just ok) with the fabric sling method. The time I used that method, I could only salvage the capped brood, as the open brood was just too fragile!!!
Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: luvin honey on June 16, 2009, 01:04:51 AM
Good to know, Cheryl. So maybe this works best for cut-outs. It seems like new hives only need to be tied up when new comb has fallen or needs to be cut down for cross-combing, etc., which would all be soft and not really conducive to the hair-clip method.

OTOH, I can fantasize about some day doing cut-outs and using clips or other methods for that :D
Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: Cheryl on June 16, 2009, 02:31:54 AM
Sometimes the cutout is a bee-removal of a colony that has only been there a few weeks. The queen is laying, they have comb and brood and a little honey..... you'd like to take it all with you and put it in a top-bar hive, but the comb is so new and green, it's like trying to handle a bar of butter at room temperature. A hair clip goes right through it, then the comb sags and falls.

Older comb (two months or more) will usually stay sturdy, in the hair clip.
Title: Re: Video of Simple cutout using Top Bar Hive
Post by: luvin honey on June 16, 2009, 09:17:22 AM
Oh, right. I guess not all swarms get caught by lucky beeks!