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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 9287" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>When I started beekeeping 50 years ago there was still some sites marked with E1 stencilled on to aluminium and attached to a 2" x 2" post about 3 foot long. I think these were probably totara but they had definitely been dipped in hot tar to preserve them. They were sharpened on the bottom and driven in to mark apiary sites. I wasn't old enough to help with dipping totara floors into the hot tar but I do remember it being done and both those floors and the pegs were around for years. Some people even tared their boxes but they had to be aired for a long time before use. I very occasionally still come across an old tared box when I am scraping old boxes before repainting them and you can still smell the tar after I would think at least 50 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 9287, member: 207"] When I started beekeeping 50 years ago there was still some sites marked with E1 stencilled on to aluminium and attached to a 2" x 2" post about 3 foot long. I think these were probably totara but they had definitely been dipped in hot tar to preserve them. They were sharpened on the bottom and driven in to mark apiary sites. I wasn't old enough to help with dipping totara floors into the hot tar but I do remember it being done and both those floors and the pegs were around for years. Some people even tared their boxes but they had to be aired for a long time before use. I very occasionally still come across an old tared box when I am scraping old boxes before repainting them and you can still smell the tar after I would think at least 50 years. [/QUOTE]
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