Bush was right - Supers are HEAVY!

[Cindi]

Hmmm...I use deeps, honey supers and brood chambers.  I don't have any quest to change the system, yet, don't know if I ever will.  When I am taking honey off, as Ted said, I have an empty box in a wheelbarrow and plain and simply move each frame into that box, simple, relaxing, no heavy lifting.  I may one day use the medium boxes for the honey supers, but I have all the equipment as deeps and don't want to make any more purchases.

I remember Jorn Johanssen in a post speaking about cutting deeps in half for the honey supers, building a new inside wall for each, and sitting them side by side on top of the brood chambers.  These boxes then were four-frame deeps and quite easily lifted and managed.  If anything, I think that I would try that.  It seemed like a really good idea in principle.  Have a wonderful day, great life, Cindi

[rdy-b]

well alright for you NEWBEE07 did you get a piece of the action I remember you said you where first year thats a lot of honey sounds like theres good amount of bees making honey I take it this is not money bags that bought the one thousand hives always like to hear about successful efforts tell me more :) RDY-B

[BBHJ]

Say you have 20 hives that average 4  (10 frame)  supers each. Thats 80 supers. 800 frames. To get the same amount of frames out of (8 frame supers) you would have to lift 20 more supers total. So you would be lifting 100 (8 frame supers) instead of 80 (10 frame supers). Is this right? Anyway if it is then IDK I think that I (meaning only myself) may would rather only lift 80.

[Michael Bush]

>I remember Jorn Johanssen in a post speaking about cutting deeps in half for the honey supers, building a new inside wall for each, and sitting them side by side on top of the brood chambers.

I've done that.  I've also cut notches in the center wall for better communication.  It works, but it takes more wood and more work and it doesn't work in the brood nest as it breaks it up too much, and sooner or later you'll have a full deep on top of a full deep.

[newbee07]

i wished it was my honey we extracted, but me and my brother help a commercial operation as well so often and this was all his. Ours is to be extracted shortly. all i know is he had some money flowing through those pipes yesterday and more this weekend. As far as the guy that bought all the equipment, no much going on right now . I went down there a minute ago to talk him out of an extractor or uncapper or anything good and he was out messing with the cattle. i will keep you posted

[peggjam]

I take mine off one frame at a time, and place into an empty box, and then use the now empty box for the next one.  We took off 300# of honey this way two weeks ago, and it works ok if you can get close to the hive to do it.  If I can't get close enough, I use an empty nuc box, and then I only have to deal with the weight of 5 frames at a time.  I like deeps, but I also like mediums........ :).