Hi Juanse

4000 hives!  You have doubled since I was there.

What about a wooden dowel of about 3 cm diameter.  Cut a slot in one
side to a little past the centre to hold the end of the mesh.  Maybe
add one or two drilled holes for pins to lock the mesh in the slot.
Or perhaps cut the slot right through the dowel leaving the ends to
hold it together and put the lock pins into the mesh when you insert
it just through the slot.   Leave enough length on the dowel so it
will be strong to support the pins you will put in for bearings.  On
one side the pin should attach beyond the bearing to a crank handle.

When you crank the handle the mesh will roll tightly around the dowel
which should break many of the chips off the frozen mesh.

But you could also pull the mesh through some configuration of rollers
on the way to the crankable roller to further flex it.

And if necessary you could pull the mesh back out through the rollers
and do it again.  But the roller that the mesh goes around tightly
would be the one that I would suspect would be the most efficient.

Stan, who enjoyed moving 3200 hives into blueberries this past week in
just 6 nights.  A new record.

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