Note to list - see Steve's new hive at "http://www.xscd.com/tbh/" I don't think I can eliminate the longitudinal elements as proposed below, at least for this...
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Apr 14, 2002 4:01 pm
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Greetings Top Bar Group: CK4 is well under way. This is a 22.5 degree (from vertical) with 48 inch interior length (my bees need more room in both dimensions)....
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Apr 19, 2002 3:27 am
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Greetings to the group: Please see "http://www.ccdemo.info/GardenBees/CK4/CK4Construction.html", also acessible from the GardenBees page There will be some...
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Apr 21, 2002 7:55 pm
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Hello all-- I recently redesigned the "divider board" that goes between the hive body and the ventilated "attic" of my first homemade Tanzanian...
Hello Leonard, all-- Leonard, I have a question regarding the use of a movable false wall to place at the rear of the hive body, which you use with your ...
Greetings All: (Response to Steve's concerns about access to space behind the adjustable wall.) Leave an access for bees down low (in my hive the wall only...
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May 28, 2002 11:38 pm
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In order to examine a bar of comb well it is necessary to get the bees off the comb. It seems that every beekeeper has his or her favorite technique for doing...
Hello all, Thank you Leonard for your suggestions and the interesting information below. I will cut my movable wall a little shorter from top to bottom...
... Hello Leonard, all-- I think my top bar hive is actually kind of small. The dimensions of the interior cavity of the hive body (not with the ventilated...
Greetings All: ... VARROA MITES: I have had my bees now for 8 months, with endemic varroa and they are still healthy. Apistan is not recommended for top bar...
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May 29, 2002 8:52 pm
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Greetings All: (Haven't heard from Ping - how are things going in Denmark?) SMOKE: I agree with Steve that minimal smoke is the best, mainly because I do not ...
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May 30, 2002 1:32 am
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... Extremely busy. I expanded last year and time sort of slipped slipped away, so I'm big time short of equipment. I'm fighting to keep ahead of the bees in...
... Both varroa and trancheal mites can be handled with formic acid. Here in DK we use a mixture of drone brood trapping and fall-treatment with formic acid....
... The best time is late afternoon on a slightly overcast day - especially if it has been raining a few hours before. Then I can visit my bees - even the ...
Hi All: This is in response to Steve's ant killing. Rather than killing ants it is simple to keep them out of the hive. You only need to have hive legs (or a...
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May 30, 2002 7:04 pm
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Greetings all: 95 degree weather yesterday. Had 2 heavy honey stores break off - they broke at the top of the stored honey and about an inch below the bar web....
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Jun 6, 2002 4:37 pm
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Greetings All: From two full bars of honey store, 40% fully built out and sealed, plus remnant honey from two brood combs and 4 top bars I obtained 36 fl. oz....
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Jun 7, 2002 1:20 am
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Greetings all. Now on part 2 of the CK4 construction pages - roof foil insulation, solar powered vent fans, and comb support loop added to bar. Leonard....
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Jun 8, 2002 5:53 pm
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Howdy y'all, I'm considering changing my frame size from Norwegian Standard to Langstroth. This will also allow me to use wider bars on my TBH's (my intention...
Greetings: For my TBH bars I use 24 inch (2 ft.) overall length with 22 inch interior exposure and hive inside width at the top. Standard U.S. material length...
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Jun 12, 2002 9:09 pm
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Greetings all: FERRAL HIVE CAPTURED. Last week I picked up a hive. It was in a large loudspeaker box (including speakers). This was suspended from chains in a...
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Jun 18, 2002 4:41 am
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Greetings All: CalKenyan 4 uses a mix of wood and plastic (folded corugated polypropalyne with high impact syrene reenforcment). Over time the plastic bars...
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Jul 14, 2002 5:54 pm
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Hello all-- This pertains to the top bar hive I designed and built with a woodworking friend and have been using for several months now. Pictures and notes...
... One technique used to ensure acceptance of foundation is to give it a light spraying with sugar water. This may be why the bees have not built to the top....
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Jul 15, 2002 6:22 pm
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Greetings All: NEW PIX For the latest arch bar with very shallow starter web see "www.ccdemo.info/GardenBees/NewWoodBarPix" (no HTML). You can also navigate ...
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Jul 16, 2002 2:42 am
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... made from melted beeswax and placed along the centerline of the underside of each top bar. But they don't seem that interested in building the comb upward...
Greetings All: I will be unable to do further hive or web site development work until later in August. However, I intend to improve the hive design further and...
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Jul 18, 2002 3:44 am
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Greetings All: For your review and comment - I have prepared the first cut of a new page accessable from the KTBH and CK4 pages - ...
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Jul 22, 2002 2:57 am
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Greetings: Latest pix and a write-up - navigate via main page ccdemo.info. I'll show this to the bee club in September and then it will be available for bees....
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Aug 26, 2002 12:04 am
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A team of us in the USA need 30 seconds of your time to help protect bees worldwide from the "next varroa", whatever that might turn out to be. Please send an...
