On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:48:06 -0500, Dennis LaMonica
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> here is a you tube video of the flow hive in action. bee forwarned that
> it s is in russian (i think).

It's in Polish, :-) The key thing that he says is that it is Ok for
hobbyists who are interested in getting some honey for themselves and
family, but he doesn't see how this can be used for commercial operations.
His running commentary includes things like "This isn't going like they've
shown in the movie" as he's struggling with the crank. He cannot imagine
emptying the frames and going through all this effort on a live hive. But,
the honey is flowing (though he inserted the tubes the wrong end in and it
was spilling) as it was advertised and he's planning to put it back on his
hive again this season. The Flow Hive creators suggest not trying to crack
an entire frame at a time, but to insert the crank only partially in order
to crack a smaller number of cells at a time.

At the risk of being excommunicated from this forum, I've just got my 4
frames this week and plan on putting it on one of my hives this season. I
don't subscribe to the marketing hoopla about the "easy beekeeping", no
need to "bother the bees", etc., but if I can get honey from frames
without having to crank my manual extractor for hours, that's a win for me
(I'm a hobbyist with 5 hives). It was either this or a new motorized
extractor, but in the interest of science I chose the shiny, new toy, :-)

Przemek
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