>>I know several in this county that use deeps only and make no
distinction between a brood frame and a honey frame.
Curious: do they use 10 frames in the overhead 'honey deeps'? Uncapping frames from
10-frame boxes is often a pain in the neck. On occasion, I have put a deep with
foundation on a hive to have drawn deep frames for future splits and would extract them as
soon as they were capped. Often the cappings were below the frame bars and it was a pain
to get the knife in the there to uncap.
Nothing beats the fat combs from 8-frame boxes. :)
Waldemar
Long Island, NY
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