Recent content by bob23

A bee keeper in the north of mull

Haha, already on the island, another keeper is giving up. Can't get bees from many places as we are luckily varroa free so importing bees from nearly everywhere else is a big no no

Yep, pretty common to see that Luckily today there's hardly any wind, just torrential rain with most roads out of Oban closed from flooding or landslides, certainly not the day to be making a hive stand but I had no choice as the bees arrive tomorrow

Good point, it's only like that over the front legs though. The fixings I've used are more than capable of taking the weights involved though, two 6mm thick decking timber locks on each joint

Thank you all so much for your replies, I wasn't expecting such a great response. Knee height seems to have a reasonable consensus so that's pretty much what I did, about 20 inches, my thinking being I can easily lower it in the future if I want . Made from locally grown Scottish larch milled by...

Hi there, first post here I'm collecting my first hives on Sunday and want to build a stand for them tomorrow. Is about 18" the right sort of height for the stand? I realise it's down to personal preference and everybody is slightly different but I'm just looking for a ball park figure to get a...