>>I know several in this county that use deeps only and make no
distinction between a brood frame and a honey frame.

Curious: do they use 10 frames in the overhead 'honey deeps'?  Uncapping frames from 
10-frame boxes is often a pain in the neck.  On occasion, I have put a deep with 
foundation on a hive to have drawn deep frames for future splits and would extract them as 
soon as they were capped.  Often the cappings were below the frame bars and it was a pain 
to get the knife in the there to uncap.

Nothing beats the fat combs from 8-frame boxes. :)

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

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