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Description: Swarm Catcher Shirt 628-dirt-rooster.myshopify.com Pierce Beekeeping Equipment piercebeekeeping.com Apimaye USA Beekeeping Supplies apimaye-usa.com Chris Kinser Hive Tool Kuenzerhoney@gmail.com Walker Bee Ranch youtube.com/c/WalkerBeeRanch Hillbilly Bee Keeping youtube.com/channel/UCIzuK1PBrw0GSXq16Om_L3w Darren at Wonderful Bees is a good friend and lets us tag along occasionally. We've learned so much about commercial beekeeping hanging out with Darren and his guys over the years. They typically run 16,000 - 17,000 colonies. This year they have grown the operation to 20,500 according to Joel, his crew boss. Any operation this large surely knows which tools are the best and as you can see they prefer the Pierce grafting tool. I did some calculations and based on how many queens these guys produce each year this tool has made well over half a million grafts. This is the grafting tool I'll be using from now on. The hive I split in this video was two separate colonies at some point. I honestly don't know how long these were stacked since they were donated the previous summer after the flow and I never separated them to inspect the bottom box. They over wintered on my yard occupying both boxes the entire winter. Since I've never had a mouse problem at my place I'm guessing this hive was stacked the same way the previous winter as well and the bottom colony failed allowing a mouse to get in and chew the bottom of the double screen divider. The beekeeper who donated this set was retiring from beekeeping but has since returned to the game. He is also treatment free on his three yards and they thrive. As I said in the video, treatment free isn't for everyone however, I believe a lot more people that do treat could go treatment free without much change in their processes. You never know until you try. The plumbing straps on the sides of this double medium stack were put on by me to move the hive. There are no paid promotions in this video, just information on some good tools that I want to share with you. @Hillbilly Bee Keeping @Walker Bee Ranch @Apimaye @Kuenzer Homesteading Ending music is from Epidemic Sound The Old Timer By Tiger Blood Jewel