This years flow

This years flow seems to be great!  I'm having a hard time keeping up with swarm management and adding more frames to catch the flow.  I'm pretty sure one of my hive has already swarmed and some are so tall I have to stand on cinder blocks to work them.

All of this has me thinking about extracting vs.crush and strain.  I have a manual extractor, but have been doing crush and strain.  This keeps my wax from staying in the hive for years with build up of toxins, but make re-waxing the frames a PIA and I loose some of the honey flow.  Time to reconsider.  To be perfectly honest, I'm thrifty and hate the tedious work of wiring frames.  2" starter strips or just plain old popsicle sticks are cheap and easy but I don't think my best choice any longer.  John Jones uses pre-wired foundation with his electric extractor with lots of success.  He has lots of pre-drawn frames that are ready to go after the bees finish cleaning them.  Cost is extra .50 per frame, but if I use the frames for 3 years (then melt for candle wax) it's worth the cost to not have to re do the frame and catch more flow.  Always learning as I go.