Poly hive musings.

[The Drone Ranger]

Are you happy with your seven Abelos, DR?
Kitta

Hi Kitta
Put it this way
I went to Thornes sale and bought 10 Smith brood boxes 10 smith floors and 10 smith roofs


My detour into the land of polystyrene is at an end (other than poly nucs)

Poly hives are all soft easily damaged
Not insect proof let alone rodent proof
Thymol melts the polystyrene
Heat melts the polystyrene
They aren't particularly cheap
The ones with lips on the boxes squash bees
The ones without lips slip around like a stack of fish boxes
Some have no frame rails
Some have polystyrene frame rails
The Lyson hard plastic edges are so slippy even a breeze shifts them
Some are full of unnecessary holes
Most are way oversize so don't fit with any other equipment
There is no standard so they are not interchangeable
The silly floppy plastic crown boards are a menace
Being out of stock of the basic components for a whole year is ridiculous
So much condensation forms they all need OMF's to try and fix it
They are not environmentally friendly in any way

While they might be comparable to some soft pine cheapo hive, they are not in the same league as even the sale quality English cedar boxes, let alone the real thing
But each to his own I say , like Tofu , crystal healing , and homeopathy, So in the parlance of Dragons den "I'm out "








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