Made two new 7-foot long hive stands, each to hold three 10-frame hives with added deeps and supers.
Each hive stand has longer back legs to counter the slope of the ground. These stands are pretty heavy duty, and made with pressure treated wood — I don’t expect this is a job that will need redoing.
The next big job will be moving the hives to replace the old stands with the new. Trust me, that won’t be fun, as the bees feel attacked when the heavy hive sections come apart, and they attack back in kind. The idea that smoke sedates bees to docility is a nice theory that comes apart when the hive sections do. I’m told commercial bee places knock out the bees with cold or CO-2.
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