All the suggestions I  have seen have merit. However, the real object should 
be to eliminate entirely the lifting and carrying of heavy supers. It is not 
a difficult problem; the objects are all the same sizes and shapes.

My super loading gadget works fairly well and fairly quickly. I clamp a 
lifting frame on the stack of boxes I want to load, lift it with the chain 
hoist and roller carriage and roll it into the truck. I use 6 5/8 supers, 
but it works just as well with deeps. The supers have been cleared with an 
escape board placed one or two days before using the same set-up. I put an 
extracted super below the extractor to give the bees room to move down.

I have posted a picture of it at:

            http://www3.telus.net/public/darn/hive%20lifter.jpg

                                    Best regards

                                    Donald Aitken

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