Hi All
 
1) Hive tool retriever - a little bent wire device for fishing a hive
tool out when you clumisly drop it into the gap from the one frame
you just removed and all the other frames are propolised in situ.
 
2) Brown plastic packaging tape - who needs wood and nails if you can
repair with this and putty?? (adv - don't have to dismantle hive)
 
3) Screwdriver in cars tool kit - makes good substitute hive tool.
(When car breaks down you will have a hive tool and no screwdriver -
a hive tool makes a bad substitute screwdriver - see point 4)
 
4) Leatherman - replaces car screwdriver and is way too expensive to
lose.
 
5) A gas lighter with the valve modfied to send out a five centimeter
(three inch) flame - useful for relighting a smoker through the air
inlet point.
 
6) Epiphen kit - useful for repairing landowners animals when your
bees  'bother' them.
 
7) A roll of toilet paper - useful for clogging those little holes
that nobody else thought were important when moving a hive.
 
8) Basins, buckets, drums etc.
 
9)  A 5 liter (gallon) platic bottle of soapy water in your vehicle
so that after loading supers one can wash ones hands and not get
stuck to the stearing wheels/gear shift.
 
10) smoker
 
Keep well
 
Garth
Garth Cambray           Camdini Apiaries
Grahamstown             Apis mellifera capensis
Eastern Cape Prov.
South Africa
 
Time = Honey
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