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- Location
- Berkshire
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 8 and 3 nucs...it's swarm time...
Here is quick way of dealing with Woodpecker damage - it takes about 5 minutes to fill a hole in properly, pretty much as good as new. No manky filler required.
You will need:
- A drill
- Some hole saws, big enough to cover the hole, and within a few mil of each other.
- A piece of cedar
- Glue
- A sander (optional).
So, you have a brood box that has been mullered by a green woodie:
You used filler in an emergency last year, but Mr Woodie has just used that as a target.
Clamp a piece of wood behind the hole so that the centre of the hole saw has something to bite into. If you don't do this, you'll need strong hands or the saw will skate everywhere. Select the smaller of your saws (mine was 79mm) and cut out the damage:
The black bit on the right is where our post code is burnt into the box....no point in advertising where we are! Put your spare bit of cedar in a vice, remove the centre drill from the arbour (you don't want a hole in it), grip the drill firmly... and cut out a hole with your larger hole saw - mine was 83 mm.
You then have a piece that fits neatly in. I would have preferred an 84mm rather than an 83 mm, but that was all I had, and I wasn't going to buy another hole saw. Apply glue:
Hit it with a sander to tidy up if you want to:
Wipe over with linseed and the box is back in service!
You will need:
- A drill
- Some hole saws, big enough to cover the hole, and within a few mil of each other.
- A piece of cedar
- Glue
- A sander (optional).
So, you have a brood box that has been mullered by a green woodie:
You used filler in an emergency last year, but Mr Woodie has just used that as a target.
Clamp a piece of wood behind the hole so that the centre of the hole saw has something to bite into. If you don't do this, you'll need strong hands or the saw will skate everywhere. Select the smaller of your saws (mine was 79mm) and cut out the damage:
The black bit on the right is where our post code is burnt into the box....no point in advertising where we are! Put your spare bit of cedar in a vice, remove the centre drill from the arbour (you don't want a hole in it), grip the drill firmly... and cut out a hole with your larger hole saw - mine was 83 mm.
You then have a piece that fits neatly in. I would have preferred an 84mm rather than an 83 mm, but that was all I had, and I wasn't going to buy another hole saw. Apply glue:
Hit it with a sander to tidy up if you want to:
Wipe over with linseed and the box is back in service!
