Bryan Clements wrote: > > Your discussions on tipping and bee blowers is interesting. After trying > fume boards, bee go etc, we have for the last 12 years used Hitachi > portable blowers to remove bees from honey box's. Its Hitachi code is PB-20. > It draws 335 watts supplied by a small 240 volt petrol generator. We cover > the intake with a wire mesh so the bees are not sucked in to the turbo that > spins at 13000 rpm. Its weight is 2 kg and is simple to use. If anyone want to see how it looks, you can find it on http://www.kuai.se/~beeman/blower.htm -- Regards P-O Gustafsson, Sweden [log in to unmask] http://www.kuai.se/~beeman/