great smokey mountain national park

[danno]

This past week my wife and i drove to Tenn. and spent a day in the park.  Up in the mountains is a old settlement called Cades Cove.  It has many old cabins and buildings.  At one little clearing these was a small cabin with a couple of out buildings.  Back at the edge of the woods I could see a lean-to with 3 stumps under it.  I went back to see what they were and discovered   that they were old bee gums.  They were hollow logs about 24" in Dia. and 24" high with a wood bottom and a pc of board over the top.  They each had a small notch enterance cut in the bottom edge.  There was not info anywhere on them and only a beekeeper would have known what they were.

[woodchopper]

Well I DO hope you took pictures of these ?? Every winter when Ann and I go South on vacation we try to visit a different part of the park. Beautiful area.

[ArmucheeBee]

Get the Foxfire book that has beekeeping in it.   I don't know what number it is, but it's around the house somewhere.  It tells how to make them and how to harvest them.  Really good stuff.  I reread it this summer when I first started beekping.