The vendor at Young Harris, Brushy Mountain, offers a medium nuc that comes with two boxes. I ordered two at the meeting. I have to confess that when they arrived, the nucs looked like doll houses for bees. I've left them unbuilt for a couple of months.
Yesterday I needed to harvest some honey for a panel that I am going to participate in at the Metro Atlanta Beekeepers' meeting tonight. As I thought about bringing in the honey and thought about how heavy a full super (medium) is, I remembered the bee doll houses.
I built two of the boxes right away. BTW, the medium nuc is a two box nuc, each a five frame 6 5/8" depth.
What a joy it was to carry the honey frames into the house in these small boxes - so much lighter. The boxes are designed for five frames and if I were doing it really correctly, I would have placed a space holder fifth frame in each of the boxes since I was harvesting an 8 frame super. However, it's only a few steps from my hives to my back door, so I brought the light, light (comparatively) boxes in one at a time.
Although I plan to use the medium nucs I bought to make splits, I will also be using them for honey harvest carrying going forward!
I also have a nuc from Brushy Mt and put it together. But I have also ended up using them for moving frames around from here to there. I am storing some wax combs in these supers and they fit so nicely into a plastic tub I purchased from Target Stores.
ReplyDeleteYou just can't beat how nice and light these supers are. I actually ended up ordering 2 more of these.
Annette