> But keeping two deeps and swapping them is just not feasible or > realistic for me.  Can't hardly carry a super with honey in it.
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   Let's hear why bees cannot be kept in shallow, extracting supers; the
whole hive would be in shallows.
   At extracting time, frames could be pulled one at a time and placed
into an empty shallow super on a cart then to be wheeled to an
extracting location.
   I have put boards on top of a stable garden cart (like the leaves
that can be added to a dining room table, but with pieces added so that
the ends of the boards cannot slide off). This becomes the workbench on
which I set hive bodies. When I finish work, I do not have to bend and
lift the heavy weight from the ground.
Tim
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Tim Sterrett
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(southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA
40.0 N 75.5 W