Hello Gang,
 
First, thank you to all who answered my support pin question.
Bobby pins would have saved me $80.00 this year.
 
 
I am trying to plan for next years honey crop of comb honey
and I have been getting conflicting information about
winter stores. I attended a bee school and was told that
honey weighs X amount of pounds and to leave X amount for
the bees.
 
In planning for the up comming year I want to know how much each
super weighs in order to know how much to leave the bees. So far
I have been told that a full deep 9-5/8 super has 50 lbs of honey
and will weight 70 pounds including bees and frames and comb.
Someone else says a full deep super will weigh 60 lbs, and another
says 80 lbs yet another says 90 lbs.
 
I have read these varying weights from articles in Gleanings,
from published books, from bee supply catalogs, and also
from "Proffessional" beekeepers.
 
I have not had a full super of capped honey to weigh myself
this year. (Just starting out). So my question is this;
 
What does a super weigh that has 10 frames,
and is 9-5/8" and is full of capped honey?
How much of the weight is honey?
 
How about a 10 frame 6-5/8" super,and a 10 frame 5-3/4" super,
( this is called a 5-11/16" super in some catalogs.)
How much of this weight is honey?
 
I would like to hear from the folks who actually put
the supers on a scale. I realize that there will be some
variation in weight from super to super, but 40 lbs
of variation?.
 
de AA1IK,
 
Ernie Gregoire
 
R.R. 1, Box 221,
South Rd.
Canaan, NH. 03741 USA
 
43.6170 N, X 72.0225 W
E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
 
 
 
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