Author Topic: Lets see your winter bee projects! (Read 25517 times)

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #40 on:** January 03, 2015, 08:09:41 pm »

LOL it should be fine Jack, might get a few of those frames finished in drone foundation.. If you have young hives or nucs put them in there to be drawn out, they have a greater tendancy to make worker foundation that older established hives.

Marty68 · « **Reply #41 on:** January 03, 2015, 09:28:06 pm »

Marty68 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 03, 2015, 09:30:24 pm »

i need to find the rest of my pics. i've made screened bottom boards some inner covers, top covers, inner covers for my nuc boxes and hive stands.

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #43 on:** January 03, 2015, 10:16:20 pm »

Marty, i see a yellow frames in both boxes, did that just happen or are they for something different? Jack

Marty68 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 03, 2015, 11:13:56 pm »

no jack the boards i use had been painted prior to me cutting them. those are my slotted bottom boards

Perry · « **Reply #45 on:** January 04, 2015, 07:18:00 am »

I think your shop is a bit too clean and organized though, you're setting the bar high.

Marty68 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 04, 2015, 09:35:06 am »

thanks perry. a Marine here and our standards are always high. we do our best at everything even when it comes to taking naps like i like to do so much lmao. but i still have more to go. gonna do some trading for bee's with some of this stuff. the more the merrier.

Perry · « **Reply #47 on:** January 04, 2015, 10:11:30 am »

"A higher standard nap" ??
Now that's what I'm talkin about!

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #48 on:** January 04, 2015, 11:23:43 am »

Marty, we could be the odd couple

, i'm a farmer and use to having cow manure and crap laying under my feet.

. No nap for you perry, keep that snow shovel handy.

. Jack

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #49 on:** January 04, 2015, 11:28:20 am »

wow! Looks like Marty has his own lumber yard!! I have some stacks of boards but not that much.. Good looking slatted racks, you build them from scratch?

brooksbeefarm · « **Reply #50 on:** January 04, 2015, 11:44:52 am »

Scott, those are good looking racks, are you talking about the pictures under photo # 2.

Jack
PS. Marty the racks you made are good looking to.

Jen · « **Reply #51 on:** January 04, 2015, 01:59:37 pm »

"A higher standard nap" ??
Now that's what I'm talkin about!

Agreed Whole Heartedly! I don't care how much snow is coming down, I can always cut out a 40 minute snooze somewhere in the day

Jen · « **Reply #52 on:** January 04, 2015, 02:06:56 pm »

Son is home for the winter so I'm putting him to work, odd jobs. You can see that the tables I have my hives on are getting weather weary, the one to the left is sagging a bit. So had son build me a couple more hive tables out of our scrap wood. I'll be able to switch the tables out later in the spring when I can get deeper into the hives.

Dunkel · « **Reply #53 on:** January 04, 2015, 05:41:31 pm »

Jen, that's just extra room for the swarms. I bet your already getting the bottom boards and covers ready. Even though I am sure you have determined your at your limit.

Jen · « **Reply #54 on:** January 04, 2015, 05:59:45 pm »

Hi Dunkel, long time no hear from

Anyway, the two new benches are almost the same width and depth as the ones that the hives are on now. I'll go one more for four hives but any swarms after that will go to my friend, who is earnestly trying to increase his apiary.

Now, I have had some fireside talks with my bees about not getting too anxious to swarm this season, and to give me some time try dividing this year.

Eh hem.... I'm a little nervous

iddee · « **Reply #55 on:** January 04, 2015, 06:05:06 pm »

And in Jan., 2017, she will be posting. ""I missed the inauguration. I was putting fondant on my 11 hives"".

CpnObvious · « **Reply #56 on:** January 04, 2015, 06:25:14 pm »

I haven't even cleaned my shop up yet for use, let alone make any progress on what I need to build...

Marty68 · « **Reply #57 on:** January 04, 2015, 06:28:11 pm »

yes , everything i make is from scratch. i look at original and i build everything from that. i have everything written down, just because my memory is all that great anymore, getting old, but all my material come from work. being a construction worker has it's benefits. this is the stuff they throw away like it's nothing, and i mean nothing. wasting so much stuff. i even got 6 cords of from them last years for winter. but i will keep collecting building trading and using what i have and get from them to keep my bee's going. all in a days work.

Marty68 · « **Reply #58 on:** January 04, 2015, 06:38:54 pm »

those are some nice looking table saws there yankee and lazy bkpr. one of these days i will have one like that. but i do with what i got for now

Jen · « **Reply #59 on:** January 04, 2015, 08:35:08 pm »

Iddee- "And in Jan., 2017, she will be posting. ""I missed the inauguration. I was putting fondant on my 11 hives"

I think not Mr. Wizard... but if I had a partner that was into it as much as I am, I might consider expanding. But alas, the man I married is not into beekeeping, he is very good at building woodenware tho. I'm a one man band with this hobby