Bill Lord writes:

I need moderate weight capacity but am interested in
mobibility so I am looking at 3/4 and 1 ton flat beds.  I
am also looking at loaders


Reply:
We use 3/4 pickups and 1 ton flat bed trucks and run about
900 + colonies right now while working back up in numbers.

If that close to home and about 250 hives, why not do it
simply and just have a liftgate put on back on vehicles,
and use then two kelly nose floor trucks to wheel on and
off and rope during transit.  One floor truck on bed and
other on ground simply wheeling and no lifting to lift
gate. Heck, even I can work bees easily and move, etc that
way, so you ought to be able to too! not that I am a poor
old beekeepers wife in late 50s now.

Regards,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/

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