Brains and/or brawn wanted

I need some help moving the bees.

Cornelia, Waverly and I went to check the bees this morning. They are still alive. Which is awesome. The hive seemed pretty heavy, so I think they still have honey. I don't think it'll be too long, maybe a week or two, before the first flowers and pollen are out, so I think they're probably going to make it!!

It's been great for the bees for them to be in the barn, but it doesn't work so well there for the vegetable end of things. In the bees' defense, they didn't sting anyone at all last summer, except me during the bee fiasco, but they often went to the seedling areas for water, which would startle Peter, and they are fairly close to the future farmstand, which may scare customers. So we'll probably move them up to the farm field, which will have the added benefit of providing pollinators for melons and such.

Anyway, the problem is that they are on the second floor of the barn. They're pretty heavy and unwieldy to carry down the stairs, though two non-bee phobic and strong people could probably do it. (How did we get them up there to start? Well there were a lot fewer then, in a box about the size of a large shoebox.)

We have a dolly, and if we can get them onto that, we can roll the dolly out to a large window onto a part of the barn into which we can drive the truck.

But how do I get them from there down into the truck?

Or there might be a way to rig up some kind of pulley system and get them down from the window they're in now, though that is probably 15-20 feet from the ground.

Anyway, the best time to do this would be when the first flowers and pollen are out. That way the hive is no heavier than it has to be (before the bees start storing this year's honey and when they've used up as much as they're going to of last year's), but it's warmer and there's food for the bees, so the can better deal with the stress of the move. If any blog readers out there are available, I could pay you $10 per hour to help me move them and/or offer you the first honey of the season. (Cornelia and I tasted some of the honey that'd dripped down the bottom of the hive and it is yummy!) Also, ideas about how best to move them much appreciated!!