Bee hive relocation

[Fred_Berkelhammer]

After about 3 weeks of trying to time this removal for a cold enough day, but having snow on the roads every time, we finally just timed it for the warmest day in about a month. So, my wife's bee keeper's suit was necessary...

 

[Fred_Berkelhammer]

James Melton is the climber.

 

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Rigging the piece with the hive.

 

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Preparing to re-tie and cut.

 

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New home, next to domesticated hives.

 

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A peek into the front door

 

[mpriley02]

Awesome Fred! I'll be building a top bar hive or two in the next month or so. What kind of bees do you have in them?

 

[AspenArbo]

That is cool! Great dedication!!

 

[dylanclimbs]

Cool!

 

[Fred_Berkelhammer]

Those aren't our hives; they are on County open space, near the community gardens. (My wife has a hive in the back yard, but she can't remember what type.)

 

[Adkpk]

Did any of them wake up? What was the temperature?

 

[No_Bivy]

moniter for starvation in spring...

nice work keeping the log in the same position. I found its best to let log swarm..vs cut them out. Had a few bee logs here. Last hive was exposed comb....wierd

 

[TreePractitioner]

That's too cool! So nice to see that even though the tree was removed, you were still able to find a new home for the bees.

Matt

 

[guymayor]

Great work Fred!

 

[Fred_Berkelhammer]

It was about 45*, but windy. Thanks for the alert about possible starvation, No Bivy; we could put some sugar water out in the spring. (Though it looked like there was plenty of good comb in the hive.) We also placed the hole at about the same orientation with respect to the sun, so hopefully...

 

[ForestKeeper]

Hey this is great! So glad to see that you are taking care of the bees. Alot of guys would just trash 'em and hope to not get stung. Along with doing tree removal on Cape Cod, my son and I are beekeepers, so we understand the great value that honeybees have.
I've had to remove bees out of a tree before as well. Pretty Exciting! Cape Cod tree removal