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our bees started chewing at the small entrance on the entrance block so fliped it round for the bigger one and they stopped, they had got as far as nicely radiusing the edges the edges but they've left the edges on the larger side sharp

Weather is a complex thing My personal take on uk climate is we are loosing the the really cold bits of winter. It’s now just that horrible damp cold with the odd splash or really wet. Summer is getting hotter and dryer. And that’s taken from working ether out in it or in a barn for last 20 yrs

Was shocked how littel stores were left in ours at weekend was in to minds if to inspect or not but there were that meany queen cups last time I though I better had. They are now on syrup

farmers are getting a lot more controlled with what they spray, sprayers are getting better and chemicals more expensive

the other half has taken a chicken to the vet before, vets dont seem to have any idea about chickens other thanits a chicken its also expensive. our bees have stung our chickens because the chickens are twerps at best, they get over it and might even learn from it. other than the routene...

the backstory : our late cast swarm from last year made it though the winter well in its brood box, 4-5 weeks or so ago we'd had a quick look they seemed to be doing fine but there was a lot of murmorings about a really cold snap and starvtion so been new at this we were were probally over...

ive been informed that at some point this is something i wil have to get good at. when you do quite a lot of work for a builder and he knows you keep bees ....... pass me the sledge and chainsaw or am i not not allowed to say that

the problem with science is that devising an experiminet thats free of bias and has usefull accuracy is hard especally when you hae no idea how things are working. once you know how the system your testing works its easy

if i owned a fgule gun the recipe would be easy to try cheep common tempriture controll module and attach a k type thermocouple to the heater in the gun it would then turn the heater on or off to matain your new desired temp

ley lines i dont really even know what they are or are not, or how they would even work ect, but i can sometimes find a pipe with a stick or welding rod, ive seen other people do it when given up with some very expensive kit, they literally been abel to walk along where the pipe...

Just been putting frames together tho the job made itself more complex as simple jobs allways do. 1st off the air compressor decided to become a fuse tester, the after an hour looking for 3/4 tacks I gave up not even opened the box. But After some cobbling nail gun back in play, the...

AS the OP says it was his first and possibly last i don't think they are worried about pricing themselves out of the market, wouldn't be ether, i used to worry about pricing myself out the market on somethings. found i don't like welding cars and repairing commercial lawnmowers or hydraulics...

OSB3 is great stuff, i know of loads of it that been used outside for way to long and is in better nick than it has any right to be, my old ws doors are clad with it was meant to put something over it about 10 years ago

wouldnt have made much differance to me in winter go to work in dark, come home in dark not fun. btw farmers do say what the clock says, and in winter most of them bugger off sking anyway

Thing to rember is lithium cells can pack a hell of a punch for there size. Wet lead acid batteries you should only use 30% of the stated capacity and about 50% of it for an SLA battery. It’s scary when you think 2 lithium cordless drill battery’s have more useable energy in the mm than a lot...

I tryed and failed to buy to buy lots of bits, websie kept on bounceing me out when it came to compete checkout

I’ve not used it in anger yet but a makita 6ah cordless drill battery. They are dumb battery’s so need a battery protection module ect. I used the guts out a burnt out drill

Just got to make things to much hard work for them then they loose interest, Lift things up a bit further and weigh them down with heavy things and your fine pita tho. Like with chicken hutch once they’ve got a taste for chicken thin T&G or covers osb won’t work. 600mm of galv sheet round...

4.8 mm drill is basicly a std size anyway and readly avalible not that id recomend drilling it. the only effective and accurate way i can think of for makeing them is waterjet cutting. but your going to get a low of QX's out of a sheet

if a badger wants in something you have quite a problem, once they have got into something and found nice things you have a massive problem the claws are big and there legs strong