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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:27 am Post subject:
You use another lift and put it in the 'attic' you create for them.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:31 am Post subject:
A lift? Is that similar to an eke?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:33 am Post subject:
I don't know what an eke is . The bit you hang the frames in, anyway (you are a National Person, I think?). Stick an empty one on top of your crown board, and turn the feeder upside down on the hole in the board, then pop your lid over the whole thing.

jamanda
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:34 am Post subject:
So basically an empty super? An eke is a frame that lifts the lid up a tiny bit.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:35 am Post subject:
Yes, that's it, got there in the end. Sorry - brain melting. 'Lift' is the outside bit on the WBC. Whole terminology thing going on.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:39 am Post subject:
we've got bucket contact feeders and ashford feeders (which are like another super but designed for feeding - can't get thornes picture to copy atm)

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:40 am Post subject:
We have a couple of ashfords and had an absolute disaster with them - they didn't fit quite exactly (or we didn't fit them exactly) and about a million bees climbed in round the edges and drowned . It was horrible; like a Bee Titanic Disaster.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 08 11:44 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

We have a couple of ashfords and had an absolute disaster with them - they didn't fit quite exactly (or we didn't fit them exactly) and about a million bees climbed in round the edges and drowned

. It was horrible; like a Bee Titanic Disaster.

oh dear -

we had our roof vent mesh go on one hive and drowned a load of wasps once - but they had it coming...

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