"Bob Harrison" " I try to remove all bees from
> the honey house before extracting."

Bob's descriptions of working conditions in his honey house always sound
absolutely Dickensian. I could not in honesty recommend beekeping as a hobby
for retirement (as I do) if it was inevitable that you had to suffer in this
way.  IMHO hthe future of beekeeping in adanced societies lies in recruiting
far more older
beekeepers at the hobby/sideliner level, so the issue of working in clean
hygienic safe environments is important .
Why does it not work to just stack supers initially in a lobby to the  honey
room so that all bees, once full,  fly to a one-way valve in a window before
the supers are taken thru?   I realise the odd bx with a queen will always
be a risk, but this normally shows up in the apiary as soon as the super is
lifted off the clearer board.

Robin Dartington

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