>Juanse: No problem with to high temperature inside in summer?

I'm in Maine and I store equipment in an old container truck body, was
a Navy truck originally. In the summer I leave the doors open and
cover the area with large screen doors that used to go to sliding
glass doors. I try get the truck empty before hot weather but.... we
had a really hot summer a couple of years ago and I had boxes with
foundation in the truck and the foundation melted dripping down all
over some drawn wax that was at the bottom of the stack. I have
thought about sea containers they are popular here for storage, people
have two and put a roof, using rafters, between them for a covered
storage area in the middle. I would be sure to have fitted screen
doors for containers in the summer or really good ventilation. Since I
started using screens in the summer nothing has melted and last summer
I had some deep boxes in there all summer long.

Some one just opened a bee themed gift shop here and they offer
extraction, payment is $2.00 a frame or 30% of the honey, minimum of
one 8 or 10 frame super. We have a lot of hobby beeks in our area so I
expect offering extracting will do well. What if some one didn't know
their hives had AFB and they brought their suppers to be extracted and
the same afternoon there where supers coming in from another beek so
the extracting equipment had wet honey in it from the first job. Would
the second beeks frames get spores? Then with those wet boxes put on
the bees for clean up could AFB get passed along. I would think it
would be to hard to wash out the extractor and bottling tank between
each job because drying an extractor is not an easy job and the
puddles of water in the bottom would put water in the honey. Do any of
you think this could be a concern with a extractor being use for
different equipment? About 20 years ago there was a problem here with
AFB some of the beekeepers who have seen it are cringing at the
thought of supers going through a extractor from different bees yards
that have not been inspected.

Karen T-K

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