How high is to high?

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jdesq

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?

Joelel

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July 27, 2009, 11:26:03 AM
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.
Acts2:37: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40: And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation

MustbeeNuts

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July 27, 2009, 10:17:38 PM
I just stack em high..
Each new day brings decisions,  these are  new branches on the tree of life.

Joelel

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July 27, 2009, 11:17:13 PM
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.
Acts2:37: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40: And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation

riverrat

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July 29, 2009, 01:04:36 AM Last Edit: July 29, 2009, 11:54:37 AM by riverrat
how high is high? when you get to the top rung of the ladder you are there  :-D  wish we all had this problem
never take the top off a hive on a day that you wouldn't want the roof taken off your house

Kathyp

#5
July 29, 2009, 02:08:26 AM
or when you are flat on your back with two supers and a ladder on top of you, you may have gone to high?
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

NasalSponge

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July 29, 2009, 04:00:41 AM
Based on my past I could tell ya but I think it inappropriate :mrgreen:

iddee

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July 29, 2009, 09:04:37 AM
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.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

Joelel

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July 29, 2009, 12:58:20 PM Last Edit: July 30, 2009, 12:25:46 AM by Joelel
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.
Acts2:37: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40: And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation

MustbeeNuts

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July 30, 2009, 12:04:30 AM
h
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...
Each new day brings decisions,  these are  new branches on the tree of life.
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