For a honeybee trapout in a tree not four foot off the ground at the church where I am a member not 400 yards from my own house and hives.

Of course I'll do it for no charge.

You need to have your pastor tell the congregation that they need to attend your bee removal sermon after the ( highest attended ) service. The kids will flock there and naturally the parents will have to come along. Even if that only nets you one extra paying job, God will see to it that you are repaid. ( Usually ten-fold )

David was that your own bees that swarmed next door ? lol

Wouldn't know, Robb. None of mine ever survived the branding and I can't find an ear to tag.

Seriously, us beeks have to be like NWCOs and CYA. Once "my" bees cross the fence I don't know them from Adam's housecat.

There is no money to be made with bees here. Too many bee keepers that want to come get them as a free service just for the bees.

I have five different names that I can call 24, 7 to go and get them. I make nothing on the transfer but folks think it's cool that I can put them in contact with bee people.

Who knows? As I learn more about them I may try keeping some myself before long.

If any of those bees are sporting a beard or wearing a kilt, I think we've found the owner.

Muddawg, I say more power to any beekeeper willing to go get free bees. The money part comes in from the cases where the bees are in a particular spot that scares the pants off of your average beekeeper. When the local beekeepers come and look at it and then never show up again, then you have a job. Usually involves heights and sometimes high voltage. Every once in a while it involves close proximity to expensive things that break easily.

Give the church a really fair price The Lord will bless you

Absolutley, most beeks long about their third or fourth year get to feeling their oats and set out to become as regular bee empire and chase every swarm they can and the really froggy see something on youtube about cut outs and trap outs and away they go chasing "free bees". By their fifth or sixth year they realize like the rest of us have that there ain't no such thing as free bees.
Those that last learn to put a price tag on it or quit doing everything but swarms and if they really do become a bee empire they lose the time to chase swarms.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that money can be made in bees you just have to learn your niche and mine is cut outs and trapouts. And I'm doing so as the president of a 100+ family bee club and I give classes every year on what I do to those who would do the "free bees" and I'm still busy.

BTW, the trap out is set up and it took all of twenty minutes. It dawned on me tonight, I now have a system that is repeatable from job to job with the exact same equipment used again and again.

I'd charge 10% of the churches take that sunday.

Do you mind showing us a few pictures of the trap out? I've always done cut outs..never a trap out. If it was in a tree, I passed it off to someone else.

I'll post pics tomorrow.

$666.66 dollars.

Phil, thank heavens you're back. I was beginning to worry.

For some reason the above is not working so here is a direct link.

http://s173.photobucket.com/user/warrior_ADC/media/VIDEO0096_zps34063b27.mp4.html

I also just realized that it was over length and got cut off short. I'll do another if there is interest explaining more.

I'd like to the the whole thing, PM me for my E-mail addy if that would be easier. Thanks, big bob

Yes! My question is - can they be excluded/one-wayed out like bats without taking the colony? I'm not interested in keeping them, but want to offer the service if feasible.