2 of my hives have each 2 brood supers and 5 medium supers on. I need to put 2 more on each one, but it's definetely going to be too high to work with. I would like to extract everything at one time. What do most of you do in a case like this? Do you leave them on the hive or store them somewhere til you are ready to extract? Or one other possibility- putting a few of the full supers on smaller hives?
Quote from: jdesq on July 27, 2009, 10:41:56 AM
2 of my hives have each 2 brood supers and 5 medium supers on. I need to put 2 more on each one, but it's definetely going to be too high to work with. I would like to extract everything at one time. What do most of you do in a case like this? Do you leave them on the hive or store them somewhere til you are ready to extract? Or one other possibility- putting a few of the full supers on smaller hives?
Take a couple off and put them in the freezer and add one on. Unfreeze them when you get ready to extract.
I just stack em high..
Quote from: MustbeeNuts on July 27, 2009, 10:17:38 PM
I just stack em high..
Thought you said they were to high,oh well get a ladder.
how high is high? when you get to the top rung of the ladder you are there :-D wish we all had this problem
or when you are flat on your back with two supers and a ladder on top of you, you may have gone to high?
Based on my past I could tell ya but I think it inappropriate :mrgreen:
Once a super is fully capped, the only reason to leave it on is to let the bees track it up. Make the wax and honey darker, and give it the opportunity to be damaged.
I remove one as soon as possible after capping. I freeze it for a few days, seal it in a plastic bag, then extract when ready.
I fell off a ladder one day trying to put a supper on. I was luckey though,I fell on the roof of my two story house.
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Quote from: Joelel on July 29, 2009, 12:58:20 PM
I fell of a ladder one day trying to put a supper on. I was luckey though,I fell on the roof of my two story house.
hahahahaha very good...