Bellows hive

[For want of a better word]

anyone any idea how to get bees out of this bellows hive into someting more manageable?

Yeghes da

 

[Moggs]

Leave them there. Get crowd funding and build a few more. Place buckets under nozzle, pump bellows a few times- hey presto honey on tap.


I've had that déjà vu before...

 

[mintmoth]

Carefully - that's £500 - £600 worth of antique bellows you've got there

 

[pargyle]

Carefully - that's £500 - £600 worth of antique bellows you've got there

Well certainly £300 - £400 depending on condition

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLACKSMIT...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

The only way in to the bellows is to remove the 'upholstery nails' that hold the bellows to either the top and bottom plates of the bellows ... but you will need to be careful as you will want to replace them exactly as they were to retain the value of it.

They used to replace the leather every 50 years whether they needed it or not ... so it can be done but I think you will find professional bellows repairers a bit thin on the ground these days !

We had exactly that bellows for the open hearth forge in my school metal work shop in the 1960's ... penance for doing something daft when you were doing metalwork was to spend the rest of the lesson pumping the bellows .. flippin' hard work even though it was weight assisted ! Mr Myers (our metalwork teacher) had got the bellows from a local colliery who had had it for the better part of 100 years in their workshop and had just converted to an electric blower ... how times have changed.

 

[mintmoth]

Well certainly £300 - £400 depending on condition

Buy from eblurb, yes, sell.....? No.

http://home.btconnect.com/cottagestyle/items4.html

 

[pargyle]

Buy from eblurb, yes, sell.....? No.

http://home.btconnect.com/cottagestyle/items4.html

Yes ... it's the same as honey ... the place you sell it in has a marked effect on price and perception of value ... there were some scruffy bellows sold on ebay for much less but I suspect tarted up and put in a vintage stuff EMPORIUM they would fetch much more.