Hive tool Jumbo

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Jumbo 40 cm stainless-steel hive tool with scraper and curved frame-lifting end. Its extra leverage helps separate heavily propolised boxes, supers and frames.

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Stainless steel hive tool of 40 cm, with a scraper at one end and a frame lifter at the other. Almost twice the length of an ordinary one.

You buy it for the arm, not for the blade. And that arm places it at one particular point in the work, which is not the spring inspection.

01 · LEVERAGE

Forty centimetres are twice the torque

The force that reaches the joint depends on the arm, so with 40 cm your wrist does what a twenty-centimetre tool makes you pull with your shoulder. You notice it on heavily propolised material, where a short hive tool bends before the bond gives.

02 · WHERE IT BELONGS

More honey house than apiary

That is what the people using it tell us: inside the hive it gets in the way, and where it shines is parting supers in the honey house or separating boxes off a stack. With the colony open, 40 cm of steel passes over the neighbouring frames and it is easy to knock where you did not mean to. For inspections this is not the one; for the tower of supers on the trailer, it is.

03 · HANDLING

More leverage means more care with the timber

The same advantage turns against you: with this arm it is easy to overdo it and tear the edge instead of freeing it. Go into the joint and twist the blade on its axis to shear the propolis, rather than prising sharply upwards. Here the margin for error is smaller because the force is greater.

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

It measures 40 × 8.5 cm: check it fits where you keep your tools.

✓ FITS	Parting supers and boxes that are stuck fast, honey-house and bench work.
✕ DOESN'T FIT	As an inspection hive tool: inside the hive its length hinders more than it helps.