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This is not a bad idea. His following stuff in the video is also quite good. Different ideas, different hive styles but the video is worth watching.
I don't use canvas over my hives but I could. His english is not great, the queen is called a uterus in the video, but the images are good enough to get past the english.
 

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This is not a bad idea. His following stuff in the video is also quite good. Different ideas, different hive styles but the video is worth watching.
I don't use canvas over my hives but I could. His english is not great, the queen is called a uterus in the video, but the images are good enough to get past the english.
informative and entertaining. The swarm trap, is like mine I just made, (original idea from an unnamed Russian source i think) but I did mine under a bucket lid, so I can lower into a bucket, but his video has given me an idea- I think I'll make a couple more and use a flat langstroth roofs so I can box right up. And attached a wired frame on it for them to land on, make it so it removable from the roof, put two long nails in, bend at right angles so the right angle hooks under the top bar of frame, and out them at opposite orientation so frame it can't jiggle out. but make it so you can swivel the nails sideways and leave frame in hive.
 

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Sure glad I checked in this morning. That is a good video. It gives me some ideas too but I would sure like to build one like his for an interesting experiment. Coming up with canvas is the hard part. Last time I was in Jo Ann fabrics there were a couple of old ladies that made fun of me for buy knitting needles. I had to explain to them that I was using them to take tangles out of my fishing line on my bait casting reels. They didn't believe me.
 

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Cleaning out a box of linens today found a lace curtain from a dollar store that I picked up on my way to get a swarm when I didn't have a suit with me about 10 years ago. I looked like some kind of magician in that rig.
 

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I dont care what I look like, if it keeps them from stinging me, ill wear it..lol also the guys that do cut outs of honey bees wear no bee suite at all, I cant believe they arent getting stung as you rip apart the comb from the walls of a house or building...I have watched a bunch of videos of this and one guy has no shirt on...
 

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anything that stings I dont want too close...Ive gotten hit many times by wasps ,hornets and yellow jackets..they hurt...and they chase you....I have heard the african bees can really let you have it...so far I dont think there are any in my area..
 

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They don't handle cold well Bob, so you're safe for now. Open an africanized hive and they all plaster themselves to the front screen on your bee helmet, it's pretty amazing. I've cut one out twice and the 2nd time I requeened. Picked up a giant even hotter swarm a few years later and that one did not even make comb, it just consumed syrup and wasn't safe to be on the lot without a suit, I fortunately put a queen excluder under the box, over the bottom board, on swarms with unknown genetic and behavior or the drones would have wrecked every queen for miles. I did soapy water. I had to. It was that bad.
 

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I watched a video a few months ago and it showed what a group of Africans do when gathering honey from the wild.That was an amazing video. Not me!
 
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I ran across this video trying to find the one that I had mentioned. This one is crazy too. Nowhere to run if they come after you.
The Last Honey Hunter (Behind the Scenes) ft. Renan Ozturk and Mark Synnott - YouTube
NO..HELL NO!!!!! I hate heights to start with and then add giant stinging bees..using the drone would be the only way I would get any pics of that..lol..just watching them go up that high on thin ropes and hand made ladders gave me the eebee jeebees....
 

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I am afraid of heights also. You wouldn't even catch me on a high diving board or a tall ladder, even though I was on an extension ladder trying to get on the barn roof when I fell and broke my leg. Never been on one since. However, that is me in the photo above 12,000 feet. Gave that stuff up too when I got around 800 jumps. I almost closed my eyes while watching that video. Now that is some crazy stuff.
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there is no sane reason to jump out of a perfectly working aircraft.lmao..one of my neighbors was a NYC fire fighter, he said above 5 stories they dont worry about falling, the fall will kill you, but under that you could survive and feel the pain and end up a cripple...I told him my step ladder was about the highest I feel comfy with...
 

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when I bought my upstate property the previous guy had built some tree stands, way up there, around the 18 to 20 ft mark, way too high for me, mine are 8ft the highest, and most of the deer I get are from ground blinds or walk and stalk...
I went up into one of his tree stands on a windy day just to see how it was..I was back down on the ground 30 seconds later..
 

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nice!!,how do the windows open? from the inside or out? looks like ropes on the outside.. I have to build some weather tight stands to hunt in, I move around alot on my property , but I have a few spots picked out for them, I will make them movable as I have forks for my backhoe , so if I want to move them to another location I can..maybe this summer ill start with one..
 

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nice!!,how do the windows open? from the inside or out? looks like ropes on the outside.. I have to build some weather tight stands to hunt in, I move around alot on my property , but I have a few spots picked out for them, I will make them movable as I have forks for my backhoe , so if I want to move them to another location I can..maybe this summer ill start with one..
Yes the ropes on the outside lead to a pulley on the inside so we can just pull the awnings open for shade. We have sliding plexi glass windows on the inside that we can close off in extreme cold weather. That way, our heat from our huge propane heater won't escape. We like to rough it so if it is to cold and the heater isn't enough, we each have -40* sleeping bags to drape over us. All helps while we sit there drinking our hot coffee waiting for that big deer to come along. Sometimes we just fall asleep in our office chairs. We do have about 6 tree stands scattered throughout the farm for when the weather is right and we need to change up our hunting game. We have a couple ground blinds set up also and they stay up for a long time but by the time turkey season rolls around, we forget how to take those ground blinds back down. They can sure be a pain. Some of those tree stand become swam trap stands.
 
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