My hats off to you commercial beeks

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TheMasonicHive

June 18, 2010, 05:47:46 PM
Today it was 90 out.  I have two hives.

You're insane for working more than that I'd imagine, but my hats off to you.

I'd always thought it'd be cool to do this for a living, now I know I definately don't want to.

Keep cool!
Christopher Peace
Oakland County, MI

"It teaches us that, as we come into the world rational and intelligent beings, so we should ever be industrious ones; never sitting down contented while our fellow-creatures around us are in want, when it is in our power to relieve them without inconvenience to ourselves." - Freemasonry on the Beehive

hardwood

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June 18, 2010, 06:33:03 PM
It's been unusually hot here for this time of year...97/98 degrees/high humidity for a week! You know it's going to be a rough day when you have to change shirts and take a break about every tenth hive.

Scott
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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riverrat

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June 18, 2010, 07:24:26 PM
Quote from: TheMasonicHive on June 18, 2010, 05:47:46 PM
Today it was 90 out.  I have two hives.

You're insane for working more than that I'd imagine, but my hats off to you.

I'd always thought it'd be cool to do this for a living, now I know I definately don't want to.

Keep cool!

Hiram I had to laugh at this one. There is a lot of people that think beekeeping is putting a white box with bees out on a field. Then at the end of the year you open the tap and the honey flows. Then when they get into it and find out its hot dirty back breaking work that pays about 30 cents an hour. they decide it isnt fun as they thought. :-D :-D
never take the top off a hive on a day that you wouldn't want the roof taken off your house

greenbtree

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June 18, 2010, 07:30:03 PM
Here in Iowa it gets hot only in Summer, but it still can be killer.  When I have to be out on the 90 plus days (and as I work, when I have a day off of no rain I have no choice) I keep two wet towels going - I wrap one around an empty two liter in the freezer.  Once frozen, I put it around my neck and head outside.  But first put in the next towel. Once the one on me is drying and warm, back in to swap out with the other towel.  Repeat. Only way I can keep going.  Loved the heat when I was young, now not so much...

JC
"Rise again, rise again - though your heart it be broken, or life about to end.  No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend, like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!"

Michael Bach

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June 19, 2010, 11:00:25 PM
I just moved up to 6 hives.

Thurday I baught two nucs and picked them up at 9pm to get as many bees and I could.  Drive them 30 miles home and placed the nucs in the bee yard at 10:30pm.

Today I inspected all 4 existing hives, built new hives for the nucs, fed all 6 hives, and transferred the nucs into thier new hives.  I built 4 new inner covers with screening for better ventilation.  And the list goes on.

I have spent hundreds of hours on my new girls.  Finally, at am at the point of letting them do their thing for a while.

Oh yeah!  Two straight weekends of electric fence installation.

Atfter all the manipulation was over today, I was walking back to the house and took off my veil.  On pissy girl stung me on my eye lid.  OUCH!  Swollen and sore.

TheMasonicHive

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June 20, 2010, 08:27:29 PM
Hell, I'm 27.  Young or old, doesn't matter, that sucks haha.
Christopher Peace
Oakland County, MI

"It teaches us that, as we come into the world rational and intelligent beings, so we should ever be industrious ones; never sitting down contented while our fellow-creatures around us are in want, when it is in our power to relieve them without inconvenience to ourselves." - Freemasonry on the Beehive
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