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Re: Weighing a hive in winter
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Mike <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:53:50 -0600
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Robin Dartington wrote:  slip in the bathroom scales up to a line u draw
across the middle (so u always put it in the smawe place), and lower
the hive on.  (to weigh the hive.)

If you put a slab of wood between the scale and the hive, balance the hive
on that slab of wood when lowered, you would have almost the exact weight of
the hive.
Mike    Located 1/2 way between Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama

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