Did my first cut-out from a shed wall Saturday — here's what I'd do differently

Fourth year, Texas. A friend's shed had a colony in the wall cavity — maybe 8 months established, comb from top plate down about 3 feet. Took me 6 hours. Bees are in a deep in my yard now and the queen is laying, so it worked, but here's my honest debrief: What went right: I made a frame-sized template from cardboard and cut brood comb to fit before rubber-banding it into empty frames. Bands every 2 inches or so, comb same orientation as it hung in the wall. Bees had it welded in with fresh wax within 2 days and started chewing the bands out themselves. What I'd change: my homemade bee vac was way too strong at first — killed a cupful of bees before I choked the airflow down with a slide gate. Test it on the FIRST handful, not the third. I'd also bring twice the ratchet straps, a real headlamp, and I'd find the queen EARLY instead of vacuuming for an hour hoping. And honey comb goes in a sealed bucket immediately — open comb in July started a robbing cloud around us within 20 minutes.