> We paid $1.75 for the waxed Piercos.

I should have mentioned that this was landed in Edmonton, all-in.  I 
don't know what the price was at the factory.

In my opinion, at this point, I would not buy PF100s again at half the 
price, but that opinion may be subject to change after I work through 
the hives more.  They are not terrible, but IMO, they are more trouble 
and less durable.

And, oh!, I forgot to say that I was forced to extract this year, even 
after splitting 22 hives into 110.  I took the honey to Meijers to 
extract in their commercial extracting system and we found that the wood 
frames climbed the conveyor, the Piercos climbed the Cowan conveyor, but 
the PFs just slipped until another frame came along and pushed it up.  
More than a few times one end of a PF100 gripped on the chain and the 
other didn't and the PF100 fell into the sump, then had to be fished out 
manually.  None of the other combs did that.  The PFs had to be 
intermixed with other frames to make it up the chain reliably.

That is a going to be a huge issue for some.

_Cowan Conveyor Test Results_

Pierco (new version) -- PASS

PF-100 - FAIL

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