Hi All
You've seen how Keith Jarret pours his pollen supp mix into tubs, then dumps
the tubs over onto plywood and cuts the cake with a spade.  We had trouble
getting the cake to slip out of greased plastic tubs until I thought of
lining the oiled tub with a sheet of newspaper.  The pollen supp drops out
cleanly, and is easy to cut with the spade right through the paper.

Most novel way to mix sugar syrup I've seen:  local hobbyist uses an old
washing machine.  Dumps sugar in, has hot water hooked to fill hose, runs
wash cycle to dissolve sugar, spin cycle pumps syrup into buckets.

Randy Oliver
(and in answer to Murray)
500 colonies, migratory, 5 moves a year; raise queens,sell nucs, pollinate,
produce honey
Have made every mistake in the book, and created many of my own.
Like to base my opinions on hard data.

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