Recent content by JamezF

If this comes off at least I won't be paying, and it's for someone who can only stand for short periods and uses a wheelchair the rest of the time so I thought I'd offer a few options. James

Bah! I've had a message this morning from the owner of the land where the water pumping station is. They want to bring large excavation machinery in so they can do the work to fix the leak and some of the workers are unhappy about the bees, so they'll have to be moved. They intend to start on...

If we're going DIY then I want this one. James

I'm sure I read somewhere that queens and drones travel different distances to mate (an evolutionary trait that helps to avoid cross-breeding?). I can't recall where at the moment, but if so the OP would end up with a hybrid of his bees and some other random colonies rather than of both his...

Aha! That's the one! Thank you. I just couldn't remember the name of it at all. James

I feel sure that not long ago someone posted a link to/photos of a long hive that was, well, perhaps somewhat over-engineered, even having gas struts to support a hinged roof. Anyone remember anything about it? Because I just can't find the posting any more. James

Collected the kit from my dead-out tree colony this afternoon. As I lifted the roof off its sides fell off. It all felt a bit Laurel and Hardy :D I'd used some fairly tired hive parts though as the site was right next to a road and clearly visible, so if it did go missing I wasn't going to...

It would be lovely if that were the most newsworthy event around you today :( James

Thanks. I'll give that a go if I end up really needing more boxes this year :D James

They are indeed. And I'd have more if I could justify the cost, though there are also 20" and 24" F-clamps available that look as though they'd be quite useful, but they don't have quite the same clamping surface area. One of the more tricky things about the sashes is that you often need three...

I know we had some cedar gravel boards -- I think the local saw mill used to cut "left over" cedar with their normal gravel boards and you'd just get the luck of the draw. But these ones smell right and there's no sign of rot after almost ten years, so I'm going to assume that's what they are...

My Charlottes are up, mostly. As are quite a few volunteer potatoes. Need to get rid of them sharpish so they can't spread blight to this year's plants. James

Made up the new sides for one of my roofs this evening. Looks rather nicer than the lump of scrap that I started with James

Can't you do something like "Select All, Format->lower case" ? It's been a while since I had to play with Word. James

It's not me that I'm really worried about getting wet. The problems come when you're halfway through a job using electrical power tools or a chainsaw or something like that, it suddenly starts bucketing down and need to get everything out of the rain or need to finish the job to leave things...