BBKA Forum

Jim Norfolk wrote: ↑

19 May 2019, 18:39

Stacks of brood boxes are very heavy for us oldies. Any one tried Rose one size boxes?

Actually Jim, that is a very fair point worth reminding and not just for “oldies”. If you were needing to lift off a 3rd National brood chamber full of honey from the top of a stack (already raised on a stand) every time to inspect, it would test many of us and risk injury. Other larger brood chambers would be even worse.

I like the Rose principle but don’t envisage re-equipping. A full national super is quite heavy as it is. When under time pressure I often remove two at a time and then regret it once airborne

Chrisbarlow wrote: ↑

19 May 2019, 21:56

all concepts that can be applied to any box size as long as you use the same box size.

A lot of Dadant users do the same running supers. Not sure how they compare weight wise with rose hive. Good system but involves a lot of extra work moving frames around every inspection. But it is , I'm told the best honey producing system there is.

If I may just briefly return to the issue wild flowers on road verges.... The charity Plantlife is running a road verges campaign and has lots of good info on their site, including a petition to sign.

Well worth a look:

https://plantlife.love-wildflowers.org.uk/roadvergecampaign

Check out Hratlepool council....all there inner city road verges/etc are seeded with wild flower mixes.