Recent content by jkellum

I have the same unit and its fantastic. Once its up to temp you can treat a hive in 30 seconds or so.

Yep center them up and your good.

I did that with a router at first but its so loud and messy where this is much nicer and the waste is contained.

You dont see hardly any sliders in the US.

They dont make my saw now but this is what i have. Will run a dado up to 1-3/16" wide. A solid table saw is the heart of a workshop. https://www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-10-3-hp-220v-cabinet-table-saw-with-long-rails-riving-knife/g0691

and keeps your fingers safe

Knocked together a jig to mill the taper in side bars. Volume warning. table saw and dust collector running sorry. The dado blade is whats making that whining sound.

Turning 2x8's into side bars for mating nucs, still have to mill the taper into the sides. Also milled the top and bottom bars from 2x8's since they were handy and cheap.

Its southern yellow pine. Im in the US. There is a bridge tie mill close by that you can get bundles about that size of 1" thick material thats waste in their process for about a hundred dollars.

Don't doubt the double nuc for honey production.

Heres my pile thats been air drying for a year or so. Power company cut trees in my neighbors yard and a neighbor down the street has a portable saw mill. All i had to do was buck it to length and help stack.

You will like the double nuc / resource hive setup. I typically drop 2 swarms in them and let them build up to 4 over 4 then a Queen excluder and super them in common. I have had them draw and fill 3-4 supers.

I had a hacked together bee vac made with a dewalt battery vac but it was a pain. I now have this https://www.allmybees.com/store/p10/Professional_Model_Everything_Bee_Vacuum.html Its fantastic.

Langstroth has space above and below the frames that add up to the correct bee space.

Built 7 more swarm traps and got 3 coats of paint on them this weekend.