hedgerow pete
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Jan 26, 2009
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- Hive Type
- National
The great bee shed of birmingham was started with the offical laying of the foundation stone ( plank) in the year of our lord 2007. The general idea was that after some thiving git stole all ten of my bee hives and bees and stands and the contents of several other sheds of mine also incuding my most loved ducks . coupled with the fact that a close friend of mine for many years wanted to keep bees the only slight problem was he was very lazy and just because he had no legs from the waist down he wanted to do bee keeping sat down!!!!!
The shed its self was finished and stocked with bees for him just after the cancer came back and took him away that s why when you get to see the photos the wheel chair ramp to the door is not finished. The hives are all nationals , why because i like them , have loads of frames and dont want to change. y es there are better types of hives and better ways of doing it but the shed its self is a collection of what ever was spare from the last job i worked on that people would let me have. the floor is made from two and a half sheets of 25mm ply ( the reason the shed is only 10 foot long not 12)
The inside is being as we speak lined with fibre glass and then covered over with thin ply wood, the reason it has taken two years to get to this stage is finding free ply wood panels is getting harder and harder. Once all finished i will paint the whole lot whit inside.
The things i like so far has to be that i can inspect the bees when i want or have time to it does not matter that it is raining or not we can take our time do what ever we want to do with out rushing gone are the days sat in the car waiting to run up to the hives to get the inspections done before it gets to dark
I also have somewhere to store all of my junk as the wife would say. I live in a mid terrace rabbit hutch with not much garden so all my frames and spare boxs live in the shed and the extractor.
Its also great that i have several newbies who want to learn and as our local club is a bit snobby thet can come up to me. I have a battery power supply up there and use it to supply a shed light and most importantly of all i have a large table mounted magnifing glass. the ones used for crafts ect like the old lights on the two arms this is great for getting a great view of the laying patterns and of looking at the larva
The shed its self was finished and stocked with bees for him just after the cancer came back and took him away that s why when you get to see the photos the wheel chair ramp to the door is not finished. The hives are all nationals , why because i like them , have loads of frames and dont want to change. y es there are better types of hives and better ways of doing it but the shed its self is a collection of what ever was spare from the last job i worked on that people would let me have. the floor is made from two and a half sheets of 25mm ply ( the reason the shed is only 10 foot long not 12)
The inside is being as we speak lined with fibre glass and then covered over with thin ply wood, the reason it has taken two years to get to this stage is finding free ply wood panels is getting harder and harder. Once all finished i will paint the whole lot whit inside.
The things i like so far has to be that i can inspect the bees when i want or have time to it does not matter that it is raining or not we can take our time do what ever we want to do with out rushing gone are the days sat in the car waiting to run up to the hives to get the inspections done before it gets to dark
I also have somewhere to store all of my junk as the wife would say. I live in a mid terrace rabbit hutch with not much garden so all my frames and spare boxs live in the shed and the extractor.
Its also great that i have several newbies who want to learn and as our local club is a bit snobby thet can come up to me. I have a battery power supply up there and use it to supply a shed light and most importantly of all i have a large table mounted magnifing glass. the ones used for crafts ect like the old lights on the two arms this is great for getting a great view of the laying patterns and of looking at the larva
