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29th Year Transitioning To Other Things- and Finding A Use For Old Beekeeping Equipment

After 29 years of beekeeping, I am moving on. I'll do my best with the 2 or 3 surviving hives, but I made the decision and have been giving away all my gear, books, hives, and tools. I'm keeping enough for a few hives, but otherwise, calling it quits.  Here are some of the supers and brood boxes I had a month ago in my back yard: And here's today after a month of Craigslist -just a few left , and a stack of tops and bottoms. Plus a ton of empty frames. which are likely destined to become kindling.  I have all these extra frames as I used a whole bunch of boxes in a way that is helping me to organize my incredibly messy shop- packed to the gills with tools and materials and cans of whatnot  At first I didn't get a response on CL (in part as I mistakenly listed them under "antiques and collectibles!"), so I thought about other ways I might make use of them, and realized I could easily make drawers for my shop. Its turning out better than I expected, and my shop

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