Lets see your winter bee projects!

[Yankee11]

Heres a little saw dust thrown around and a mower in back ground

And you cant really see it but beside the mower is a 1966 Mustang 289 engine sitting on the floor.

[Jen]

Way Way Way Too Tidy Yankee! That Is The Cleanest Sawdust I Have Every Seen! I don't see a beer fridge with deer blood on it anywhere!!!  Or fish guts in the big concrete shop sink

[kebee]

 Hey! I love the stand for the cut off saw, did it come with the saw or did you have to buy it separate.

Ken

[Yankee11]

Separate. Says any saw will fit it.
I love it so far. I got it at Lowes. They have it on sale for 19 pints of Honey.
It's very heavy duty and it folds up for storage.

[LazyBkpr]

Yeah, thats what I am talkin bout.. Wheres the rest of the mustang?  Stroke the 289 up to about 331.. still cant touch a small block 454 Chevy but its a step in the right direction!!   Wait.. is that.. a MINING pick hanging in the corner? 
   I can only guess Yank has a gorgeous wife.. she "was" a gold digger but one she met him she gave up and hung up her pick??   

[Yankee11]

OK, Since you asked.

We built a 1989 Mustang GT 5.0 roller cam engine and put in this car. Car is rewired from head lights to tail lights. Converted front breaks to 17 inch disk breaks. Plus many other upgrades. Radio that hooks to iphone etc. Interior is exactly same as 1966. Even found a original steering wheel on EBAY. Radio is a "replica" that looks exactly like a 66 radio just modern.

Kept the original 289 motor.

Oh and those are Factory Ford Mustang wheels. From the new mustangs. Ford has kept the bolt pattern the same all these years.

It was a great project for me and my son.

[LazyBkpr]

   NOT a ford guy, but it wouldnt take much arm twisting to get me into a 65 or 66 Mustang..   Best looking cars Ford ever made, and that one is a shining example of sweet!



    Picked up my new masterforce table saw this morning, assembled it this afternoon and cut a few boards.. time to get down to business if I intend to have all the woodenware ready for spring.
   Will try to get pics tomorrow!

[Yankee11]

Thanks Lazy, my son learned a lot from rebuilding that car. We gave it to him instead of selling it.  It's in his garage.

Congrats on the new table saw, lets see some pics.

[LazyBkpr]

   OK, winter projects underway!
   This is the new saw, as you can see, I have already put it to use.   100 top bars and bottom bars, ready to be taken to the next step..  so about 1800 left to go!!!

   



   Doing the math, I looked up the cost of frames;
   
6 1/4" (15.88 cm) Unassembled Select Frames - Wedged Top & Groove Bottom
Code: FR-910
Price: $2.09

   so thats saying 2000 frames will cost me $4180.00      My wife was soon to have that shocked expression...

    I know from previous episodes of bee math that I can build a frame for about .22 cents
   Yes, plus electricity, blades for the saw, and my time.. so lets call it .50 cents a frame..... times 2000 is $1,000.00
   

         My wife actually saw the light..   As usual, I got the third degree about buying this saw...   I didnt get upset at all, I told her flat out.. Honestly, I would prefer NOT to buy the saw, I would much rather order the frames, even order them assembled WITH wires wax foundation.. Yep, I would even settle for stinky plastic if I didnt have to assemble them...
    Well, why DONT you order them then?
    Because I dont know how much they are. (Yeah it was a LITTLE lie, and I actually had not looked for a while so it wasnt     
         BARELY a lie!)
    Go look them up.
    I dont have time right now. Look them up for me when you go refill our coffees please?
    Sigh...    fine, what do I look for?
    Any bee supply, try  Brushy Mountain, Better Bee, Kelly, etc...  (No I didnt mention Mann Lake  )

   So when she came back out with the coffee, she had this hang dog expression... I had the wood splitter going so we didnt talk till break time...  That was Wednesday...   Thursday morning I went and picked it up!

[Jen]

Hahahaha, I recognize the method of our madness when we want a new tool. And, I can smell the fresh cut scent of frames to be 

[Yankee11]

Now that's a saw.

So you make your own frames?

[LindsayBrower1]

Wow you guys are really on top of these winter projects! Awesome! I better get in gear...

[LazyBkpr]

Lindsay...   What, are you holding in your avatar picture?   

[brooksbeefarm]

That's what i was wondering? it looks like a bald Eagle? Jack

[LindsayBrower1]

Avatar- good movie! What Im holding is just one of my hens... Its hard to tell since she has a rose/cushion- like comb... Her breed is dark Bhrama, a large breed. She does kind of look like a hawk here...

[LindsayBrower1]

Heres a different angle

[LazyBkpr]

OK, thank you!! Couldnt zoom in on the avatar picture.. the white head DID look as Jack said like an Eagle, but the other colors were wrong, as was the size, so was thinking YOUNG eagle?
   The angle of that picture makes that chicken look a bit mean...  ATTACK chicken!!! 

[LindsayBrower1]

Ha no way! For me eagles are beautiful from a distance! Luckily I have no attack hens/ roos.. All my birds are very people friendly. The bhrama breed is also recognized for their great temperament. The only con is that they are slow to mature.

[brooksbeefarm]

Well so far i have made 5 deeps, 10 med. supers, 10 deep nucs, and cut out 12 top feeders ready to assemble. Then i have to make 15 frames for queen excluders, clean out a stack of old top feeders, + then i have to, ugh, paint all of it plus 24 med. supers that need another coat of paint. Mann Lake messed up and sent me  wired shallow wax foundation instead of med. foundation? i went ahead and put it in the wired med. frames anyway, i think they will draw it on down? im sure some of you have done this. Just like everything else on the farm, make do with what you've got. . Jack

[Perry]

Wouldn't a happened if you'd ordered plastic to begin with!