Reconditioned bee boxes, Field's Apiaries
1967 - 68 season at Field 's Apiaries. Bee boxes repaired then soaked in used car engine oil. Then left outside for 6 months to weather. Unacceptable practice today using old car engine oil
Russell Field right of Field's Apiaries, Foxton
Honey removal using the bee brushing method.
Infuriated the bees and this is when we got most stings!
Field's Apiaries loading honey on truck, Foxton
(boxes) loaded onto rear of the truck by hand. Each weighs about 25kg. We had no mechanical lifters, all manual lifting.
1967-68 season, Foxton area.
(boxes) loaded onto rear of the truck by hand. Each weighs about 25kg. We had no mechanical lifters, all manual lifting. (boxes) loaded onto rear of the truck by hand. Each weighs about 25kg. We had no mechanical lifters, all manual lifting.
Field's Apiaries worker manually loading full honey boxes. 1967-68 season
We had no truck mounted mechanical lifter and had to manually lift the full honey supers (boxes) onto the back of the Ford truck, Each box weighed about 25kg
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