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Thank for that excellent info and summary of getting out of the do doos, Ph. As someone up stream said will print it out for reference. Think I am already in need of it. bee-smillie

Been reading with interest, love the workshop porn pics rae ! Like to think I know my workshop stuff, but bees is another matter ! Where I am losing the plot is why is this different to the much frowned upon method of letting a few bees in a nuc produce QCs. Mm quotes 20 QC, not scrubs ? Can...

Hit a slight snag with the project, I have made the frame top retaining hoops what I thought was a nice fit for 22mm i.e. 7/8 inch top bars, but now find that 1 1/16 bars are used by some, which makes my hoops just a shade tight ! So the question which I think I may know the answer to, whats the...

Looks like good advice to me, thankyou Bill. As a new boy I think I have fallen into some of the ways you mention ! S

Made three roofs today and took a few pics of how I do it. This is not me advising a way to do it, it is how I do it, gaurds removed for photographic purposes. This is a shot of the rear of the router table, the whole blue bit on the table top slides back and forward. The silver bolt on the...

Exactly what happens in our house Griff, wife gets mad with me and I end up in the kennel ! :boxing_smiley: Does it matter she says?............. "YES". Still hate Country Mix Up........... File, that is, lol, but in a better mood today, off the workshop. bee-smillie

I got fed up with Country File. They tell you whats coming, then show you something you just saw, then go somewhere else, then tell you what coming again, then to back to what you saw a few minutes ago, then tell you what you saw ten minutes ago............ then have a stupid competition or a...

why do you need a tig mate for when there is an oxford welder under your bench just buy a tig torch to fit it and manual feed the wire into the weld. Not up to speed on that approach Pete, but did a google and it looks interesting, I have done more oxy- actylene welding that I care, or can...

Evening All, Did some more work on the extractor today, but the wedding thing got in the way, so progress was not as good as expected. The kit used here Pete, was all home made, from scrap lol (apart from the tape and hacksaw.!) Bending up the frame retaining hoops, had to leave excess length...

Thanks for that info Pete. Went to see stainless man today and came away very pleased !! with 6 meters of 20 x 5 mm strip which will hopefully roll up nicely and be easier to weld that rod. 3 meters of 6mm dia for the pegs and hoops which can be located for welding by inserting into drilled...

Thats exactly what I have experienced H. one of my hives and both of my friends, all three were brood and a half. My single brood behaved as expected and have obviously been reading the text book properly !! bee-smillie Thanks S

Thanks for the reply M, The queen cell in both nucs had both gone ? What I am wondering now is how long is it before it is reasonable to open up the nucs to check for a mated queen, then the plan is to unite one with the problem brood and a half, thats assuming I still cant find the queen in...

Thanks PH, lots of concentrated knowledge there ! Just startling to realise just how important a "spare" queen is. S

Thanks for the reply Veg, Already on brood and a half ! Think 14 x 12 is way to go though, working through 22 frames is not easy, especially for a beginner. Made an interesting discovery today, spotted a sealed queen cell and panicked, but then spotted a marked queen ? Essential to have queens...

Bit of advice needed here please Last weekend there were lots of sealed queen cells in my brood and a half. The hive was very full of bees and stores as they were refusing to go up into the super which had been there a week. Loads of bees and could not find the queen, so my thinking was to thin...

Well said, I never leave an offer for anything standing, "I am offering you £x now, not tomorrow, that is another day and another offer, I might not want it so much tomorrow so the bid might be less !! " Learnt this one a long time ago, peoples use your offer to jack the price up to the next...

Please excuse the lack of knowledge here, but where's the warming come in on the plot Poly. ? Not go round to thinking about extracting yet ,but there's load of rape around my pair of hives but they won't take it upstairs, only new foundation up there, but they are cramming out the brood boxes ? S

I am hands, with some pen. :willy_nilly: lol. :rant: If we had more hands and less pens the country might be in a much better state. To, or is that too? many smart "bottoms" about these days. bee-smillie S

Well said H. Come on Ho, give a guy a chance ! Andy don't worry about picky comments, a few members are quite precise here, but we all try to do our best. To the point, I have used Life time wood treatment and think it probably does the job. I won't say to much for fear of being ridiculed but...

I love old tools, most of my machinery is lumps of cast iron, but come on lads, things have moved on. I have a Diston over 35 years old, if its collectible and worth anything its going !! A site chippy is on about £20 a hour and its not profitable to ..gger about repeatedly sharpening a saw...