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 *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html