Diff Kraken
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Maybe I can bring @JohnVee the tires? How big are the tires and how many?
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Holy smokes... This guy has golden cojones.
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The Bone is the bomb. Awesome wings, too.
Sorry; I updated the posts with the date.
Saturday Feb 20 at 9:30am.
I'll let @NearJetties decide about that and report back to us. 3 tires, 31's.
Diff Kraken
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Yo @NearJetties let me know if you want me to grab the tires from your place and bring them to the breakfast meet up. I understand if you would like to see john with your own eyes in person though. Who could resist such an opportunity? Let me know as I’ll need to move some stuff around in the gx to accommodate. Best pick up time for me would be friday afternoon.
Diff Kraken
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Ok @NearJetties I could swing by your place for the tires tomorrow around 430/445. Shoot me a text.
@JohnVee let me know if that makes things easier for you if I bring the tires to the breakfast.
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@NearJetties will pass right by the Bone on his way to OTRAMM. It’s about 3 miles past Cabelas. I’ll give him a shout soon to discuss.
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See everybody? It was so simple all along! Just a little worldwide pandemic and Bob stays out of our hair.
iptman
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Went out to my bees the other day and found all 3 hives completely dead. 
Plenty of honey and pollen stores and as you can see this cluster was an inch from honey when it perished. Not that a cluster this size would survive the winter anyway but still. For reference a healthy cluster would be the size of a volley ball this time of year. First time I've lost all my hives in 8 years of bee keeping. Sucks.
And in case you were wondering, the queen was right in the middle of that pile on the left. She's usually the last to die in these situations.
Plenty of honey and pollen stores and as you can see this cluster was an inch from honey when it perished. Not that a cluster this size would survive the winter anyway but still. For reference a healthy cluster would be the size of a volley ball this time of year. First time I've lost all my hives in 8 years of bee keeping. Sucks.And in case you were wondering, the queen was right in the middle of that pile on the left. She's usually the last to die in these situations.
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Oh, man. That's terrible, Patrick. Was it just the weather that did them in?Went out to my bees the other day and found all 3 hives completely dead.
D21FJ60
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awesome, thanks for the invite- if i can swing things on the home front ill be there. May bring wife and kids, weather permitting for all of this of course
Oh man! That sucks.Went out to my bees the other day and found all 3 hives completely dead.
And in case you were wondering, the queen was right in the middle of that pile on the left. She's usually the last to die in these situations.
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I have no idea about bees... Just the delicious honey.
They froze to death?
D21FJ60
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It's not THAT far, plus you have that fancy hybrid now
iptman
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Last time I went out, maybe a month ago I put on some winter patties I had left over from the previous year. These are basically sugar and protein powder mixed with water essential oils and squished between wax paper. Almost none of them were consumed. I wouldn't think these patties could go bad and harm the bees but that's the only thing I did recently. The number one killer for bees like this are varroa mites (scientific name varroa destructor if that gives you any indication about what these little effers do). They're basically tick-like insects smaller than aphids that crawl in to the cell of a newly hatched egg and lay their eggs with the bee as it's metamorphized from larva inside it's cocoon. Then when the fully formed bee emerges the mites do as well and attach themselves to other bees in the hive. The mites spread a number of viruses that will eventually devastate a hive. Typically they'll weaken a hive, shrinking its numbers to a point it can't sustain itself and then they all just die off. I'm guessing a combination of mites, old patties (maybe) and the cold snap did them all in.
I pulled all the frames out of the hives and will store them in the water tight totes until I can buy new start hives in the spring. When I started beekeeping I bought nucs which are small hives with only 5 frames, a queen and worker bees. These are more expensive but preferred since you'll get bees in all stages of their 21 day egg to bee life cycle. The other option is buying a package of bees where you get 3 pounds of bees in a mesh box with a mated queen that was that was "packaged" together right before shipment. I tried 2 packages last year and neither survived. I have reservations for 6 nuc hives from 2 different local providers so I'm hoping I'll get a good jump on the nectar flow season if I can get them in hand by late March.
Patrick,
I had the privilege to get your honey and it's pretty good.
I just put two and two together and figured it was you. (I know... I'm slow) LOL
Sorry to see this.
I had the privilege to get your honey and it's pretty good.
I just put two and two together and figured it was you. (I know... I'm slow) LOL
Sorry to see this.
@Stumpalama showing signs of life 
