Bringing Out The Heavy Artillery

Once he confirmed that A) the hive was healthy and B) there were a lot of bees in this wall, he decided that he needed to speed up the process. It took him hours just to remove one brick. However, he didn’t want to be stuck for a long time removing one brick at a time.

He decided to bring out his hammer drill to make the job easier and faster. It’s unclear whether he was initially removing the bricks one at a time to salvage them. But now that the drill was out, and there was little chance that bricks would be saved.