Going for comfort this summer!

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Ben Framed

April 17, 2020, 10:20:33 PM
Laugh if you will, for comfort while working my bees this summer, I have purchased a lite-weight fan, pop-up canopy, and already own a power inverter. . I have already given it a trial run a few weeks ago on a warmer day, (warmer days have been rare so far!)  One thing that I have learned. Be sure to place a screen on the suction side of the fan in order to keep from creating the same effect on bees that the wind powered generators have on birds. Also it is easy to move the pop-up down the line when need for shade. I should have done this two years ago when I first started. The vented jacket felt like a cooling jacket with the wind coming steady through. AHHHH lol

Phillip Hall

The15thMember

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April 18, 2020, 06:23:57 PM
I'm not laughing, I'm jealous!  Lucky you.  I don't even own a ventilated suit.  :angry:  :cheesy:  One of these days I'll have to invest in one. 

Quote from: Ben Framed on April 17, 2020, 10:20:33 PM
One thing that I have learned. Be sure to place a screen on the suction side of the fan in order to keep from creating the same effect on bees that the wind powered generators have on birds.   
This is simultaneously awful and funny. 
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Nock

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April 18, 2020, 06:58:19 PM
That will be nice.

Seeb

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April 18, 2020, 08:23:59 PM
Laugh if you will, for comfort while working my bees this summer, I have purchased a lite-weight fan, pop-up canopy, and already own a power inverter

a picture is worth a thousand words . . .

NCNate

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April 18, 2020, 08:25:32 PM
I've already decided a vented jacket is in my future. I was sweating in it already on a 75? day...

The pop up canopy is a great idea!

FatherMichael

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April 18, 2020, 09:57:13 PM
Been thinking the same thing.

It gets misebly hot here.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?

42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

43 And he took it, and did eat before them.

van from Arkansas

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April 19, 2020, 12:11:47 AM
Picture please.
I have been around bees a long time, since birth.  I am a hobbyist so my answers often reflect this fact.  I concentrate on genetics, raise my own queens by wet graft, nicot, with natural or II breeding.  I do not sell queens, I will give queens  for free but no shipping.

Ben Framed

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April 19, 2020, 12:49:53 AM
Quote from: van from Arkansas on April 19, 2020, 12:11:47 AM
Picture please.

For sure, the next time I get the rig out. It was cool today. 

Ben Framed

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April 19, 2020, 12:51:13 AM
Quote from: NCNate on April 18, 2020, 08:25:32 PM
I've already decided a vented jacket is in my future. I was sweating in it already on a 75? day...

The pop up canopy is a great idea!

Don't forget the fan. lol

Phillip Hall

Ben Framed

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April 19, 2020, 02:56:14 AM
Quote from: FatherMichael on April 18, 2020, 09:57:13 PM
Been thinking the same thing.

It gets misebly hot here.

It will definitely help you.

Phillip Hall
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