We received our Flow Super Lift yesterday. The weight-bearing screws went in straight away. Then today dawned bright and sunny and we haven’t looked in to either of our two hives for a couple of weeks. So away we go with the Super Lift.
Check the video:-
A couple of points to mention. Make sure that other screws you may have slightly unscrewed to take the brackets aren’t in the way as the lifter brackets take up space up and down the sides of the hive and need to clamp in close. You’ll see in the video how I had to fix that problem on the second (grey) hive.
Another is I have always operated from the rear of the hives and have had to transition to working from the side. New for me and funny how we get set in our ways. One way around this is to have the super tilt forward instead of backwards. Unfortunately, we have the Flow weather guards on the front and they use the same area that the lifter needs, so they’d need to be removed before we could tilt the super forwards.
All in all, these are minor points when the main reason for the Lifter is to minimise the effort needed to lift a full Flow super off the brood box, and it does that very well.
Cheers