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Hi all. I'm reducing my operation back from semi professional to hobby. I've realised i don't have the equipment or premises to carry on with my thirty odd colonies. It's either invest more money or cut back. So I'm selling a lot off. I would like £400 for a colony in a British standard hive...

I know! I'll propose it. And you can second it!! 👏👏

Yes. I sent a message to ask if there were any for it today. And suggested buying some of there's not. 🫰

inventions, interventions and experiments!! Yep. No body ever got rich doing that .eh?

East Carmarthen. 😁

Last year I made quite a lot of Foundation by dipping a board in to molten wax. I even rolled it back and forward through an old clothes mangle to make it less brittle. Put it in frames wired it and...... The bees just didn't like it!! They seemed to draw Thier own comb next to the frames rather...

Ok. I've just looked it up. Yes it can be. I'll just have to buy the screens for it. Or even better.... Ask the club of it would like to buy them.

I'm using my clubs 9 frame radial extractor but i don't know if it can be turned in to a tangential one. Can it? What would i need to get for it? It would certainly solve the problem.

Hmm! Good point! I'm uniting splits that I've made so have to try and get 22 frames down to 11. Some have brood some are just foundation still and quite a few are packed with stores. Put a scratched frame of stores in the middle of the brood nest like i said and then juggle the rest of the...

I have the same problem this year. But no extractor to take deep frames. I've scratched the cappings of one frame and put it in the middle of the brood nest hoping the bees will move the honey up. I marked it with a drawing pin so i don't lose it. If it works I'll carry on with the rest.

No the cafe shut down because the owner wouldn't extend the lease unfortunately.

* Brynmair. Sorry.

I was asked by a shop if I could supply hem honey to sell ike this. I had a stainless honey tank that I loaned them and sold them a 60lb bucket of honey at a time. The customers brought thier own jars and saw the honey being poured in to the jar. They loved it the shop loved it and, tell you...

I'll find my strongest honey which is maybe 18% water content. I know that pasteurizing it will kill the taste etc. I don't want to send him of with a potential problem though.

I'm providing jars of honey to a sailor who is undertaking a round the world yacht race he will be at sea for about 9 months and of course will be be going through the tropics twice. I'm worried that it may start to ferment. In the bilges, bubbling and leaking amongst all the stores. Ooh it's...

I'm a wee bit shocked at the cynicism in this thread. I've always had fair to absolutely blinding (oops! Perhaps not the best word!!!) Results making mead! I make it with capping wax, the frothy honey from the top of buckets, unripe honey, anything but the best honey. Honey, water,, a bit of...

Put one of these inside a stack of supers with uncapped honey, or rather frames that have not been capped, and it will reduce the water content quite quickly.

Aye fair enough. The bottom layer cleared really quick.

I wish i didn't have to cram them in but I've a massive backlog to clear before i can get the mead in there.

This is it with the bulbs for heating.