. Gleanings in bee culture . special-ly in this section. I can load 120 extracting-supers at onetime and not tise a rope or anything else totie them down, simply closing my doors inthe rear end and starting. D. G. Stahlman. Buhl, Idaho. LABOR - SAVING HIVE - LIFTER A Handy Device for Lifting Off Supers When theBrood-chamber is to be Examined Have you ever decided, at the close of agood honey season, to requeen your apiarybut, as you looked across the rows of hiveswith their three or four supers each andthought of your poor old back, changedyour mind and put off the job till someother time? If
. Gleanings in bee culture . special-ly in this section. I can load 120 extracting-supers at onetime and not tise a rope or anything else totie them down, simply closing my doors inthe rear end and starting. D. G. Stahlman. Buhl, Idaho. LABOR - SAVING HIVE - LIFTER A Handy Device for Lifting Off Supers When theBrood-chamber is to be Examined Have you ever decided, at the close of agood honey season, to requeen your apiarybut, as you looked across the rows of hiveswith their three or four supers each andthought of your poor old back, changedyour mind and put off the job till someother time? If you have, do not do it again;but just get your blacksmith to make amachine like the one in the picture, thenpersuade your mother-in-law or your neigh-bor s boy to get hold of one end while youhold on to the other, slip it over the topand down to within a few inches of thebrood-chamber, then smile as you see thosesupers suddenly ntove off and finally backagain so gently that the workers in themhardly know they had been This liive-lifter is slipped down over the hive or the pile of supers, then as the handles are lifted the bars at the side grasp the hive firmly. The contrivance is made of three-eighthsor five-sixteenths inch iron, the hand piecesbeing 14i/^ inches long with one end turneddown 1% inches. The side pieces are 17inches, with the lower part of the endsturned so as to catch the hand pieces whenthey go below level. This keeps the lifterstraight when one picks it up and holds itout for the other to take hold. The cross- (, I. I; A N T N 0 S IN B K K 0 U T. 1^ U R K ., 1922 FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE ..,„„ I i.^^L pieces are 18Vi inches, besides what isturned back towards the handle to be riv-eted. These cross-pieces can be made anylength to suit the size of hive; but, as ]>ieces do not touch wlicn lifting, aninch should be allowed for play. The cross- iV-- ; mwrnm mm ,1V i ^ s *9::.,, ??^ ^^ 1 — -- 1 ? lEtiUiM^I 1 in my available books,
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