Problem:  Getting frames out of a super/box after they have been well glued
into place by the bees.
 
First, remove the super/box in question from the rest of the hive.  Prying and
twisting generally work well here.
 
If you still can't get a frame out, I would first try to get out another frame
in the super.  Once you get out the first frame, the rest can be twisted into
the open space and easily removed.  Make sure the frame you are working on
isn't an obvious "fattie" where the bees have dran the comb so deep as to make
the frame interlock with the adjacent frames.
 
Stil no luck?  Turn the box over and give the bottom of the frame a few hammer
hits by the sidebars.
 
And before you put everything back together again, clean off all the propolis
and burr comb from all the frames in the box, and the box itself.  Your hive
tool makes a good scraper for this job.
 
Also, put in "shear nails" from the sidebars of each frame to the top bars.
Do this on both sides of each frame.  This will help prevent pulling apart
frames.
 
W. G. Miller
Gaithersburg, MD