To echo Jim's comments: Breeze boards are definitely the way to go.  Being
a sideliner/hobbyist with a day job I don't have the luxury of waiting for
the best conditions to harvest honey.  Usually I find myself pulling off
honey on a Saturday morning in August so I can extract during the
weekend.  Inevitably it's cooler out than desirable (low 70's) and hazy,
and clearing a hive with a solar fume board just takes forever.  And I've
got hives in the woods where they don't get much sun so it doesn't work
well there either.

Unfortunately it also tends to be calm at the same time so the swoop style
breeze board doesn't work well either where I'm at.  So I use the battery
powered version I created because of these problems.  (Jim, You may have
seen it at the convention in Wooster this March)

-Tim

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