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Riggs

May 10, 2011, 01:32:44 PM
A friend of mine from work who has been a beek for 40+ years ordered a 3#Package from a local feed and seed. He was to pick them up yesterday after work. He gets a call from the feed and seed yesterday afternoon that all of the packages on the truck had died. I don't know how many were on it, but that just seems like such a waste. I'm very new to this, does that happen alot? Who would be to blame? They apparently suffocated/overheated on the truck. He was offered a refund or replacement if possible. :-\
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ~
Ernest Hemingway

danno

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May 10, 2011, 01:53:19 PM
most likely got over heated.  Friends on mine bring 100s back from georgia every spring in trucks and trailers that are wide open to the back.  The bee's get plenty of air without getting windblown

Bee-Bop

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May 10, 2011, 05:34:51 PM
Quote from: drriggs73 on May 10, 2011, 01:32:44 PM
Who would be to blame? :-\

Why would someone have to be blamed ?

Bad things in this life sometimes happen !

Bee-Bop
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AllenF

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May 10, 2011, 08:33:50 PM
Its Bush's fault.

fish_stix

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May 10, 2011, 10:08:27 PM
Most likely Al Qaeda did it in response to Bin Laden's death. When he does finally get a package make sure he inspects closely for a bomb in the feeder can.

hardwood

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May 10, 2011, 10:45:58 PM
Although it does happen (more than we'd wish) some bee producers necessarily send older packages that might have problems during shipping. To loose a whole load however falls upon the carrier I would think.

Inexperienced shippers have been known to lose whole semis full of hives (from over heating) on the way to pollination contracts during inspection lay-overs  where the more experienced will hose the hives to keep them cool.

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."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Michael Bush

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May 10, 2011, 11:27:28 PM
>Its Bush's fault.

I had nothing to do with it...
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hardwood

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May 10, 2011, 11:40:36 PM
 :lau:
"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."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Fannbee

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May 10, 2011, 11:53:31 PM
Michael I needed a good life.
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