Dear Diary,
With the dry conditions we have been asked to vacate our forestry sites by 1.00pm ..... which makes for a short day, but anyway, we been escaping honey again today ...... heavy heavy boxes.
I break the hives down, twist off the queen excluder and disease check. There are more than usual queen less hives, maybe they have virgins superseding, but what ever, we are on a tight schedule to get two truckloads done before 1.00pm .... so the queen less get a frame of sealed brood and a frame of eggs.
Main man applies Apivar , replaces the queen excluder and plonks an empty box and feeder.
New Man does the heavy lifting .... those boxes must weigh 40 kg each, but he hefts them with a smile and plonks them above the feeder. Two boxes per hive.
We were on a roll, and had time to spare before the witching hour so pulled some honey off yard I had moved in last week that came out of pollination. Once again the honey boxes were stacked above the feeders so the bees had access to some Kai if the weather was inclement.
In that interim time the bees had filled the box below the feeder .... so we rushed off home to sort out the extracting room to free up some empty boxes for next week.
It was a busy week at the office