> I am looking at doing ALL feeding, winter *carry thru* & spring *build up*, with
> 50:50 sugar syrup in a top feeder. does anyone have any novel ideas of
> dispensing
> efficiently/effortlessly to 150 hives. i had an idea of (say)  200 litre
> drums full of syrup
> with some kind of  bowser/pump attachment. any advances on that?????
 
Yep, a petrol powered water pump will do the job. They are quite cheap,
you should buy a one inch pump, and it will easily pump syrup through a
3/4 inch water hose. Don't buy the cheapest made from plastics, go for the
aluminum one. I have used this system for a number of years now, and it
works great. I can pump up to 65% solution if it's reasonable warm syrup
(30 C) through a 10 meters long 3/4 inch (19 mm) ordinary garden hose. The
centrifugal water pump doesn't build up a high pressure so the hose will
not burst when I shut the valve between hives.
 
 I got a picture of it on:
http://www.algonet.se/~beeman/biodling/hive_8.jpg
 
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P-O Gustafsson, Sweden
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