> Bee blowers are great for getting a stubborn, seemingly-out smoker > belching, too -- almost as good as a drive down the freeway. Smokers: Several years ago I lost one of my best workers to Kona Queen in Hawaii. When he returned he told me the way Kona did their smokers. I have been using their method ever since. I light the smokers once in the morning and sometimes the smoker is still burning (in the truck smoker box) the next day. I am not kidding! Kona Queen has around 20 plus workers at the peak of the season. One employee on arrival at work fills all the smokers with wood pellets ( used in wood stoves) and hooks the smokers to a propane line to light the pellets. Once you see some of the pellets will glow red when the smoker is pumped the smoker is ready. This is important because if the smoker (with wood pellets) goes out in the field the pellets are hard to light. A screen (beekeeper provided used by me and not Kona) on top of the pellets is a safety element because I felt if a smoker is tipped some hot coals could fall out in the grass or in a hive and might cause a fire. Anyway I felt might happen so made a screen ( took a couple minutes a screen). bob *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html