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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: DLMKA on January 21, 2014, 04:54:32 pm
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I don't think I'm the only one that thinks this part of the job sucks. Any tips for speeding it up? I would spray but I don't want to have to buy a sprayer and I don't really have a good place to spray paint.
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I use an airless now, but before that. I would just thread a couple of 2x4s through 10 hive bodies on saw horses. Grab a roller and go to it, turning after every side.
You still have to use a brush on the hand holds though.
Not much speeds this job up. Maybe a few beverage.
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If I have to do it inside, I paint the hand holds with a brush, and then roll the rest. I'm tempted to find an airless and just wait for good weather in spring and do them outside. It would be a lot easier.
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I use a brush, about 8 to ten boxes on my closet rod at a time.. It is a Pain.. I looked for that ECO wood treatment at the big orange chain store but they didnt have it.. would be nice to dip and hang.
I tried stacking the boxes and spraying, but if I do that it glues the boxes together, and popping them apart invariably pulls paint off, and sometimes a hit of wood, leaving a spot that has to be touched up.
If I ever get the new building we have been discussing the concrete pad behind it will CONSTANTLY be changing colors when I spray.
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I stack em up on some old planks straddling some saw horses. I use a brush to paint the hand holds then roll the remainder. I put a shim (3" or so) under the boxes so I can use a roller on the bottom edge of the new box on the bottom of the stack.
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I stacked the first round up 10 to a stack (mediums) and went after it with a 3" brush. 50 boxes took 2 hrs per coat. I let the oldest kid pick out the color since no one has exterior mid-tints this time of year and he picked a bright green that took two coats to cover the primer. Lesson learned, pick a color without much tint so it covers in one coat.
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i use a brush, always have. with new equipment, they get a primer and two coats. old equipment, depends on when's the last time i touched them up.....
i'm with tefer:
"Not much speeds this job up. Maybe a few beverage."
...... :D
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I do the same as Papakeith, I have a sprayer but it would take more time to clean up after than to do the job, if I had say 50 are more it may be worth it but with only 4 or 5 no.
Ken
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Turn on the radio to your favorite program or select a few discs you enjoy. While you are enjoying listening to the radio or the performance you can absent mindedly do the painting. The time flies by quickly and the chore becomes a pleasure---especially if you enjoy singing along.....8)
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I spray I have managed to time it with painting for customers so the clean up time gets charged to the job. but I haven't had to paint in years. and I have never repainted or touched up a box. Distress adds caricature.
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Ef- ""Turn on the radio to your favorite program or select a few discs you enjoy. While you are enjoying listening to the radio or the performance you can absent mindedly do the painting. The time flies by quickly and the chore becomes a pleasure---especially if you enjoy singing along.....""
That's the way I do chores that I'm not fond of. I would listen to 70's music loud enough to educated the neighborhood :D
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Stack them up with nails between them, hit all the hand holds with a brush, then the stack with a full size roller. Takes longer to clean up then to paint. Note that they will roll around if you do not put the nails on both long and short sides.
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I've got a Wagner power sprayer but haven't used it yet. Been building boxes lately. I think I'll get it out when the weather warms up. I absolutely hate to paint!!
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If your Wagner is anything like my old one. It was more of a paint spitter rather than sprayer.
:D
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I stack the boxes and roll the paint on. Brush the holds.
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I hate painting and don't even like to talk about it :P, but when i do, i do it with a brush and a six pack. After about 3 cans i can tolerate it. ;D Jack
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I hate painting and don't even like to talk about it :P, but when i do, i do it with a brush and a six pack. After about 3 cans i can tolerate it. ;D Jack
and after 6 you quit caring what it even looks like!
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"I hate painting and don't even like to talk about it (https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwidebeekeeping.com%2Fforum%2FSmileys%2FwBee%2Ftongue.gif&hash=fdb28a1dfe5a50a6d020271b82f386761bbce202), but when i do, i do it with a brush and a six pack. After about 3 cans i can tolerate it. (https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwidebeekeeping.com%2Fforum%2FSmileys%2FwBee%2Fgrin.gif&hash=ed82c1d8e318550e4bdc59f65b27f13740be2a3f) Jack"
jack, you need to start earlier and put some tunes on....... :D
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I paint with a brush and use latex paint so that I can use water for a cleaning agent. i have an allergy to alcohol, or I would drink heavily during painting operations. I would rather be whipped with a dead squirrel than endure painting.
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I paint with a brush and use latex paint so that I can use water for a cleaning agent. i have an allergy to alcohol, or I would drink heavily during painting operations. I would rather be whipped with a dead squirrel than endure painting.
I don't believe there is such a thing as alcohol allergy, but my body does not have the chemical requirements to "break down" alcohol. This causes my body to "expel" alcohol. Very small amounts of alcohol, like in cough syrup are tolerable, barely tolerable. One beer causes nasal congestion, hives and a trip to the bath room. This started in my mid twenties. It has allowed me to live a lifetime without a "hang-over."
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This started in my mid twenties. It has allowed my to live a lifetime without a "hang-over."
You don't know what you've missed! :-\, Oh, the fond memories of being on ones knees before the great porcelain throne. :o
Now-a-days, a beer, maybe 2, on a hot day when I'm BBQ'ing and that's it for me. Those days are loooong gone!
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An Alternative to Painting.
My new hives I treat with two coats of a brown wood preservative. Every two to three years I apply another coat during dry non-flying weather in winter.
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I also have an allergy to alcohol, I break out in handcuffs!
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I also have an allergy to alcohol, I break out in handcuffs!
Oooooh, I wondered why that always happened!!!!!!!! Its an ALLERGY!!! Thanks Minz!!!!
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I also have an allergy to alcohol, I break out in handcuffs!
How do you do it with your hands immobilized? Teach me the trick, Houdini. :laugh:
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i use stain on my deeps, i like it. i do paint my supers though with oops paint.
alcohol? handcuffs? some years ago, while i was in college getting a degree in the crim justice field, and at the time, i was doing an internship with a police department. my brother and i left a fine establishment with a bottle of southern comfort. my bro decided he wanted a better look at the stars that night, so we climbed up the fire escape on the back of a building to the roof top, and there we sat. well, the building was the local bank.... :D
we had set off an alarm or two, or three......needless to say the local pd took this very seriously, and we found ourselves laying face down on the roof top surrounded by country boys armed with shotguns......the same police department i was doing an internship with. i almost got myself kicked out of school for that.....it was the last time i was in handcuffs. i try to stick to my own yard now when i want to enjoy a beverage and do something really foolish :D
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ROFL!!!!!
alcohol? handcuffs? some years ago, ........
I was a WEE bit worried.. I thought SHOULD I keep reading? yep!!!!