180 Pounds Of Honey Hoarded Hidden In A Garage Wall - Eight Foot Tall Bee Hive

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We get these nice big healthy hives once in a while and as much work as they are to remove they are always enjoyable, even more so when a friend comes to help. I always like the vertical hives that are at or close to ground level where we can stand on the ground for most of the removal. Spending hours on a ladder can be torture for knees, feet and shins but these are fun. This eight foot tall bee hive had a lot of bees and they had approximately 180 pounds of honey hoarded hidden in a garage wall. The hive was literally top plate to bottom plate in the framing of an exterior garage wall. It ranged from sixteen inches in width to 38 inches across the top half and was up to six inches thick across much of it considering it filled the stud cavity and the space between the brick and builder board. I say approximately on the honey weight because I didn't weigh it but we left with four full buckets of comb and honey and a bunch of brood in a ten frame deep Langstroth box with a little honey in it too. That's over twenty gallons of honey and wax with a little air space so I'm figuring about 15 gallons of honey after the wax is removed. At twelve pounds per gallon that makes one hundred and eighty pounds. I fed all of it to the bees in my apiary this winter.

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