Video of cutouts using Top Bar Hive

Grandma_DOG · May 11, 2009, 03:54:50 PM

I did another cutout Saturday using a KTBH. I have to say, as rabid as I am about TBHs, they suck for cutouts. I may have to break down and buy Langs for other long distance cut outs.

This particular cutout was 2 hours away. Because the bars were new, with no propolis, they slid during transport. Notches would solve this in the future, but then it creates nooks for SHB.

There are 3 parts to the video, the first is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbs0go2KAs

part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kd8flqqeU

part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ80CEba1UE

beedad · May 11, 2009, 09:04:19 PM

Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.

Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!

Michael Bush · May 11, 2009, 09:21:27 PM

You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...

Grandma_DOG · May 11, 2009, 10:55:02 PM

Quote from: beedad on May 11, 2009, 09:04:19 PM
Awesome Cut-out!
Some people like to watch paint dry, you like to watch wax melt...that's cool.

Excellent idea with the hair clip things...i will be using that technique, thank you!

Not original, I got the idea from a Polish Fellow. I'm still playing with the size of the clip and if I really need 2 per bar.

Yea, the wax melt.... I like it. Maybe tho I should show that in fast forward for people.

Grandma_DOG · May 11, 2009, 10:57:42 PM

Quote from: Michael Bush on May 11, 2009, 09:21:27 PM
You just need "swarm ketching frames" for your TBH...

I'm all for that. Show me a design that's simple.

I gave some though to paint stir sticks (about 30mm) suspended below bars by string. Then I'd place the brood comb on the paint sticks and a 3rd string would keep it upright. But it would still suffer from rocking forces during transport.

Hethen57 · May 17, 2009, 03:16:48 AM

Excellent video..thanks for sharing your catch with us..now I find myself wondering if there are swarms in any of the old junky abandoned travel trailers I see out on the back roads.

G3farms · May 17, 2009, 07:27:46 AM

so how did the other two cut outs go?

did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!

G3

Grandma_DOG · May 17, 2009, 06:20:07 PM

Quote from: G3farms on May 17, 2009, 07:27:46 AM
so how did the other two cut outs go?

did you spend the night??...........if so hope it was not in that travel trailer!!

G3

Lol, this was a different hive, the other 3 will be later, after I get a key to the gate.

Bee Happy · May 17, 2009, 07:00:00 PM

really good set of videos, and the review is a great recap.

beedad · May 17, 2009, 08:32:34 PM

how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?

Grandma_DOG · May 17, 2009, 10:45:48 PM

Quote from: beedad on May 17, 2009, 08:32:34 PM
how did you come across those bees? did someone give you a call?

We were hunting their land for little black burnt rocks, as the video said. A meteorite fell there 15FEB09. I found a 15 gram specimen near that hive. I'm a meteoriticist amongst other things. Someone saw them and I inquired with the landowner if they wanted them gone. They had already exterminated a hive in a disused trailer the previous year.