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Richard Stewart
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Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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Location: North Bend, Ohio, USA
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 Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:30 am Post subject: Happy Holidays and A Happy New Year! |
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I have not seen many of you in person the later half of this year.
Between my new daughter and expanding our farm and bees I have been missing several meetings and participating in general.
I hope all of you old and new to beekeeping have a safe holiday.
As we enter a new year I am glad to have found beekeeping and found it so wonderful and fascinating.
I hope to see progress in my bee allergies as we go into the first part of 2010.
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Carriage House Farm
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Tony Poe
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Joined: 10 Apr 2009
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Location: Bethel Ohio USA
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| I've been busy also, too busy to even make the bee meetings. I've been looking around the net hoping to run acrossed a larger beekeeper looking to retire or downsize. I'd like to find some deep boxes but I hate to think about using someone elses equipment. Also looking for deep nuc boxes. Ever go to www.honeybeeworld.com man if that guy lived within driving distance I'd have all the deeps I could handle. Gonna try to get all the nucs and hives going that I can this year. If anyone has a swarm call this year they don't want call me even if it's late in the year. Thanks Tony |
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adgjoan
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Tony, I just read on Beesource of a huge auction in Texas tomorrow. Are you up for a road trip? If I had a large trailer I would be tempted to go. 
Joan |
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Tony Poe
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| Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| That's a little far for me but I know that simpsons bee supply has 5 frame wooden nuc boxes complete for 12.oo ea. That's probably what I'll be buying first. I seen in the abj a guy in Florida has them for 4-6.oo ea. but that's pretty far too and I have no trailer to haul them. I'd like to find about 200 complete nuc boxes in the 4.00 range but I'm not sure what quality you'd get for that price. |
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adgjoan
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Have you looked into cardboard nuc boxes? They are suposed to last one season. No kiddin about the Texas auction. However if I had someone willing to go and split expenses I would consider it. I have oddles of vacation time left and no other commitments.
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Tony Poe
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Location: Bethel Ohio USA
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| I've used those cardboard nuc boxes before and I just don't like them. The lids won't hold up in the rain even after a couple of days. They're o.k. for transporting nucs from here to there but not for permanent use. |
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Richard Stewart
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Location: North Bend, Ohio, USA
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Ditto on the nuc cardboard nuc boxes.
They get real soggy and breakdown.
Wood or plastic is the way to go. If you can afford it the bee briefs rock, but have their limits. I use mine to catch swarms and will never use anything else.
My queen castles, five frame nucs, and swarm traps are all wood.
The problem with the bee brief and cardboard is that you cannot build up on them. Nuc boxes are great from taking a two or three frame colony, giving them two frames of space and then putting another box on top to expand to 10, especially early in the season when you have cool nights still. All that heat rises and helps with drawing wax.
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Carriage House Farm
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