> We do not use the abandon method most of the time  because we do not
> want to handle heavy supers twice plus make an extra trip....

That is a definite drawback.

> What if your truck breaks down or an emergency
> comes up and you can not return on time?

You have to be certain you can.  We had multiple crews and redundant trucks.

> I realize from past posts Allen Dick dislikes fume boards for various
> reasons he has posted before.

Right, Bob, but we did use BeeGo extensively the last year we were
commercial, because it turned out to be one of those odd years that good
reliable abandonment windows were few, and because I did not trust the
capabilities of my crew at that time.

Oddly enough, in the previous years, years when we did not, and had not,
ever used BeeGo, we got back reports of butyric levels in our honey
approaching those of people who did use butyric.  That makes me wonder how
much science there is behind a lot of residue testing, both the theory and
the practice, and how much is just plain old fanciful extrapolation and
other forms of guessing.

allen
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