Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => Beekeeping 101 => Topic started by: tedh on May 18, 2022, 09:29:35 pm
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A friend stopped by yesterday morning to pick up a nuc, he's a new beekeeper. We slid the nuc into the topper on his truck and sat talking bees for a while. Anyway, he had some beeware in his truck and i was "demonstrating" a bit when i got to looking at his bottom board. The BB's I've seen have all had 3/4 inch rails. This one had 3/8 inch rails. Sup with that? Ted
Edit to add: 3/4x3/4 vs. 3/4x3/8
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homemade, or factory built?
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He said he purchased it at a local store. I imagine it might cut down on burr comb on the bottom of frames. I sent one of my homemade bb's with him. The caveat was he couldn't laugh at my "craftsmanship". He agreed, then laughed. You cant trust anyone. Im going to do a google search and see if the explanation is anything other than "ooops". Ted
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3/4 was for warmer weather and flow time, 3/8 was for winter.
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What Rast said... I used to make them flippable, 3/4 on one side and 3/8 on the other... but the 3/8 is annoying when you want to put an entrance reducer or screened entrance on so i stopped with the 3/8 stuff.
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I didnt think to see if it was reversible. I'll text him and ask for a pic. Seems like a pain to flip the bottom board instead of just adding or removing the entrance reducer. Thanks for the info! Ted
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:high5: