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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 11484" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>The boxes I was working with were square . The frames are shorter and deeper and as far as I can work out the boxes hold about 10% less than one of mine. They are all heavily insulated with walls about 50 millimetres thick. The wild raspberries come up after logging or fires and while their rotation is round 60 to 80 years there is a huge amount of forestry everywhere and there are always patches that have been cleared and they take close to 10 years for the trees to start covering them up again. The beekeepers in Norway are masters at overwintering hives and we could probably learn a thing or two from them . It was quite strange working with frames of a different size after over 50 years of just one size.</p><p>This was my son's first season in the area but from what I could gather from local beekeepers the raspberry crop was a bit below normal and the Heather crop was pretty good which is surprising because a lot of local beekeepers didn't shift because all the signs pointed towards a poor crop.</p><p>Even if we got no honey it still would have been worth it to be up on top of the mountain in the early hours of the morning with mist all round below us and expecting a troll to come striding out on the clouds at any second.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 11484, member: 207"] The boxes I was working with were square . The frames are shorter and deeper and as far as I can work out the boxes hold about 10% less than one of mine. They are all heavily insulated with walls about 50 millimetres thick. The wild raspberries come up after logging or fires and while their rotation is round 60 to 80 years there is a huge amount of forestry everywhere and there are always patches that have been cleared and they take close to 10 years for the trees to start covering them up again. The beekeepers in Norway are masters at overwintering hives and we could probably learn a thing or two from them . It was quite strange working with frames of a different size after over 50 years of just one size. This was my son's first season in the area but from what I could gather from local beekeepers the raspberry crop was a bit below normal and the Heather crop was pretty good which is surprising because a lot of local beekeepers didn't shift because all the signs pointed towards a poor crop. Even if we got no honey it still would have been worth it to be up on top of the mountain in the early hours of the morning with mist all round below us and expecting a troll to come striding out on the clouds at any second. [/QUOTE]
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