After a while playing with bees it's not uncommon to find that you have accumulated lots of variations of the "standard" hive body design. Some hand-hold are rectangular, some curved, others beveled on the upper edge to give a better grip. If you are running all deep bodies for brood and honey it gets really hard to maneuver the full boxes just by these indentations. Even if you have shallower supers, after a few hours gripping heavy boxes it becomes exasperating. Anybody out there using cleats for hand-holds? That is, a 2" (or so) wide strip of wood nailed across the back and front of each box. It makes lifting much easier, and if you attach these cleats along the *top edges* it reinforces the weak point of the hive body -- along the rabbets. Some prefer to nail a cleat at the upper AND lower edge, front and back. This allows you to stand the box on end (as when 'tipping'), also it gives you a nice durable place to jam your hive tool (between adjoining cleats) to pry the supers apart. The cleats would certainly be easier than messing with a saw to get finger-holds cut. Just a suggestion Regds, JG