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    Viable excuses to your better half for buying more kit ?

    Just get it delivered to a friend's house say nothing
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    BS Honey Bees New Poly Hive - Best in Class?

    Looks like they have gone and done it ,great looking kit
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    Home made api melter or alternatives.

    I was thinking on getting one of the basic models were you happy with it
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    Hive Density - When are there too many?

    None of my apiarys would have enough forage for twenty hives .. 6 is the limit un my part of the country
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    Hobbies?

    Any of my spare time goes into building beekeeping equipment, I must admit I use to love Metal detecting but haven't the time anymore.
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    Lightweight bee suits?

    Aus armour are great but terrible to clean
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    Positive beekeeping plans

    Started this beekeeping lark in 2017 with a nuc This season I'll be running 40 colonies, my aims will be to have 50 nucs going into winter .. hopefully have a nice honey crop and raise as many queens as I can . I need another couple of apiarys too which shouldn't be a problem.. I have built a...
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    What did you do in the 'workshop' today

    Painted up 30 supers that I made from salvaged timber
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    Workshop Heating

    Does that little thing really work its tiny but cool
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    What did you do in the 'workshop' today

    Getting roofs ready today
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    Double brood working vs Demaree

    Do you allow the top box to be filled with honey when all brood has hatched if the flow is there
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    Buying second hand hive bodys and roofs

    How much did he want
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    Double brood working vs Demaree

    The demaree worked great for me last season, I was talking to an old boy who advised me to try his system out. Basically double brood with a qx between brood boxes pulling up frames with eggs and open larvae which will bring up nursing bees and drop down sealed brood which will hatch and give Q...
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    Foundation supplier

    I usually get my foundation from maisemore don't know what to do now , the prices here in Ireland are steep €15 for 10 national brood foundation. This whole Brexit deal has screwed things up
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    BB Wear or others

    I dont use full suits anymore the sweating in summer is to much..only use aus armour jacket now
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    Kings new bottler

    That's a nice bit of kit you got there
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    Two types of orientation.

    I witnessed the very same thing in one of my apiarys this summer
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    Hive roof sheet materials?

    8x4 sheet of aluminium are great cost around 30 euro and can make 8 roofs very easy to bend and cut Galvanized metal even cheaper cost about 18 euro but is harder to bend better off with aluminium alot less time to work
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    What did you do in the 'workshop' today

    Planed and sized enough timber to make 35 supers today
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    Why

    Not that I could see
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