frame holder ideas? cant see paying $20

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adamant

June 19, 2011, 12:25:43 AM
any frame holder ideas out there.. ? cant see paying big bucks for something that simple to make..

Kathyp

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June 19, 2011, 12:52:21 AM
empty box
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

joebrown

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June 19, 2011, 12:56:24 AM
are you talking about the thing that holds frames during an inspection? They generally hang off the side of the hive. An empty box (like kathyp said) works better and holds more frames.

or are you talking about the tool that grips them and helps pull them out of the hive. Now that tool is worth its weight in gold to me. I have the one with the end that helps you pry the frames loose and I hardly ever use a hive tool now! I bought a spare just incase something happens!

http://www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/Pry-and-Grip-Tool/productinfo/217/

bee-nuts

#3
June 19, 2011, 01:18:15 AM
The ground and side of hive.  Lean it up against the hive, or keep an empty box or nuc in the yard.  What do you do when you move on to another box?  Move the frame holder?  Empty box will work better.  Its cheaper, and you can actually use it for something else.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory

Thomas Jefferson

AllenF

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June 19, 2011, 09:46:24 PM
Ditto again on the empty box if I am tearing hives apart.   If I am just pulling frames checking, I just set them on the ground leaning against the hive.  Take a deep box and put a plywood bottom on it and it make a pretty good tool box to tote your junk out to the bees.   Then you can use it to hold frames.   Just remember it is going to get sticky.   Leave it outside to get cleaned up after wards. 

Kathyp

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June 19, 2011, 10:08:30 PM
QuoteI just set them on the ground leaning against the hive.

but not by your feet.  i had a senior moment and did that once.  once was enough.  found out i can still strip, hop, and cuss at the same time.
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

AllenF

#7
June 19, 2011, 10:13:06 PM
Just as long as I can keep them from crawling into my crocs or up the shorts.

Tommyt

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June 20, 2011, 11:32:02 AM
Quote from: kathyp on June 19, 2011, 10:08:30 PM
but not by your feet.  i had a senior moment and did that once.  once was enough.  found out i can still strip, hop, and cuss at the same time.

:lau: :lau: :lau:
Strip tease to the sound of the Mexican Hat dance @ 78 rpms
Or the chicken dance at 100 miles an hour


Sorry
I haven't had the experience Yet!! but I witnessed one lol

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