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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 13439" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>It wasn't so much the life span of any given box, but rather the expectation of the future of the outfit, if you see what I mean.  Every outfit knows you gotta replace gear to keep it "the same".  It was that rate I was referring to.  The "replace 2 frames a year" rule of thumb was letting you know that if you don't have any new frames in this year, you'd need twice that next year to keep up the general appearance and workability of the frames throughout the business.  Not so much with boxes, which have (in my time) most often made from some pretty vulnerable pine, but it was that frame replacement rate that changed quite a lot in the time I was away from bees.  I'm picking that the ready-availability of ready-to-use frames, combined with a more general "getting rid of old black combs is good" from a disease control point of view did it.  Oh, yeah, another factor that come in during the time I was away was plastic frames, again changing the economics of a hive.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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