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Hive Tools are specially designed levers with scraping edges and other features that aid the dismantling of beehives or aid in the removal of frames from bee hives. They can also be used to scrape accretions of propolis or brace comb from hive parts
Red 'J' Type
A very popular tool as it is the least expensive of commercially available types.
It is also narrow, enabling it to be crooked in the little finger of one hand, so that it is always available, yet does not interfere with holding frame lugs etc..
The curved portion gives rise to the name 'J' type and is used as a hook to lever out a frame using the shoulder to rest on an adjacent frame.
And i thought it was something you would wack a beehve with to break it. DId a search for "bee hive buster" on g images. and saw something that look like a paint scrapper.
Then did a search for bee hive tools and came up with that page.
Let me post one.....