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So earlier in the year I started keeping bees in my woodland, and had the idea of producing mainly cut comb, although I do crush and strain too, my first attempt using the T****** cutter and packaging/labels, and the chunks were weighing in under the 8oz/227g so I added runny honey to take it...

just done the weekly shopping, and noticed that ALDI'S will be doing a ash hoover on the 4th sept, with built in motor at £29.99 very easy to convert these into a bee vac https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thursday-4-september/product-detail/ps/p/1200w-ash-vacuum-cleaner/

here's a short clip of me in the man cave, making use of the bees wax http://youtu.be/mRFUVRRBvsU

anyone here do the wax mould things? if so, how do you go about figuring out a price to sell at? is it by weight?

hi all, did a search but could not find an answer, have just got some of those rigid wax moulds from the big T shop, remember seeing that they advised a silicone spray so the wax would come out easier, does anyone here use those moulds, and is their a cheaper readily available substance that you...

a few people on here may have seen a video or two of mine, and I tend to apologise on them for my shaky left hand, don't ask me the technical name for it, but in layman's terms it's a hand tremor now the good news is, you can take tables to correct it, about 90% affective, the bad news is the...

so at our woodland apiary where we will only be removing comb as cut comb, I wanted something to place the frames on when cutting, looking around QD's today with SWMBO, and saw this, a potting tray for gardeners, will be ideal for doing the cut comb on, as the lip around edge will keep honey...

hi all, at my apiary in the woods, my plan is to only take cut comb, I bought a cutter,packaging and stickers from THO**** but have noticed that most american you tube video's show comb being cut into 1lb wedges, where as the cutter and packaging I have is for 8oz do other cut comb sellers...

I took two more hives over to my woodland today, not the greatest of weather to be playing with bees, but needs must and all that, I wanted to check the supers on hive 2, which were a swarm I housed back on 12th june, I knew whose hive they came from (they were given to me) and they informed me...

just done this morning http://youtu.be/IrtqzPADwyc

I picked up what I feel would be classed as a cast swarm on the 18th june, about the size of a small football, placed them in a poly 6 frame nuc, with wax starter strips on rose frames, did an inspection today, not only have they drawn out half frames of comb on 5 frames, but I have eggs on two...

thought I'd post an update on the bees in my woods, I started off with a small cast swarm, using commercial supers in the rose method, my big mistake was using a super with castelations, and of course the bees started building double comb, so I had a weekend camping planned, and roped a...

hi all, has anyone here used the poly national floor and or lid along with wooden national or commercial boxes as now I have hives at home and also our woodland, I can see the sense in having a few tops and bottoms spare, for swarms and splits etc, now to buy from the main suppliers, I'd be...

on another bee forum, someone has just posted this looking for help, I left my not very nice answer, but she may have been better pouring petrol over them and lighting. its as bad as someone buying a dog and trying to fit it in a bird cage or am I wrong??? Post subject: transfer from a...

not really thought of asking before, but you get supersedure cells and swarm cells, so swarm cells get made and as the name suggests, the bees swarm, but with a supersedure cell, am I right that, thats made when the bees aint happy with the queen and want to replace her? and if thats correct...

ok, I have a national hive that I checked 11 days ago, that had a used open queen cell (old queen had already swarmed on 4th may) I checked again 5 days ago, but failed to see a queen or any new eggs, so presume this hive possibly queen less, once we get a break in the weather I'll be checking...

picked up a swarm today, and as my garden already has two hives and two nucs in it, I thought I'd put these one's over our woods, I've got a few commercial hives, but am going to use one as a "rose hive" by using all supers and no queen excluder, the frames only have 25mm wax starter strips in...

hi all, not been around for a while, but have alway's followed "working with nature" on you tube, and doing so lead me to watch this film about the rose hive. now looking back to when I first started, (I still class myself as a beginner) but I'm a full time pest controller for london...

continuing on from my older post, Im now getting ready to set up an out apairy in our woods, have found a couple of spots that look ideal, will be making up our mind this weekend, cutting brambles out and setting up some dead hedges, someone mentioned trouble with badgers, has anyone else with...

I've been a bad bee keeper of late, a few deaths in the family has meant the bees were just left to fend for them selves, I knew I should have done an inspection, but not enough hours in the day and all that, and of course, the day I was going to inspect, they swarmed a few hours earlier...