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Title: moving bee hive
Post by: queenb64 on July 10, 2006, 01:59:00 AM
im moving my beehive about 200 yards away can anyone send me pics of ideas for something to help carry the thing, i dont have the money to buy the carrier Dadant has. i am going to bee transporting it to spot with a truck for most of the move , but its still a good ways from where it is to where the truck has to stop
Title: moving bee hive
Post by: Brian D. Bray on July 10, 2006, 05:45:00 AM
Use a handtruck with straps like those they use for refrigerators.  I put mine in a lowboy wagon and tow it behind my wheelchair when I want to move mine.  I've been thinking of putting casters on the hive stands but I move them so seldom it's not practical.