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.
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.
