Hi Bob If you send a msg addressed to [log in to unmask] (not to this list!) you'll get back, automatically, a bibliography of various methods of weighing beehives. You'd then need to chase some of them up, but as most were in such as Gleanings and the American Bee Journal, a local library should be able to get you a copy. > I was told by a fellow beekeeper he had seen plans for building a hive > scale in a bee publication, but could not remember when or where. (\ Nick Wallingford {|||8- home [log in to unmask] (/ work [log in to unmask] NZ Beekeeping http://www.beekeeping.co.nz