Container for extracting honey

[RoseCottage]

Hmmm....I must be missing something here...


I just suggested to my better half that we need one of this if we go from 6 to 8 hives next year and she passed out...

Oh well I guess it will still be a kitchen chair and grip the extractor between the knees. Did 7 supers last year no problem so we'll struggle through I guess,

Sam

 

[tidymeup]

I just don't have the space at home however I have 13 acres to play with outside so this was the solution I chose.

I expect that in the coming years that I will have more then 8 colonies.

 

[tidymeup]

A quick shot of the inside with electricity and water now. I installed some units this week for storage and a work surface with sink and hot water. need to tidy up a bit now after making so much mess though, and fit some sort of splash back then I am ready to bring my extractor and stuff in.

Can't quite decide how to arrange everything though.

 

[Hombre]

Very good. Next upgrade, veranda/s and corrugated aluminium pitched roof. Store supers on the veranda/s under cover of the pitched roof.

Is the quarry site just where you work, or is it your quarry site? I think that I would have put the office on block piers to raise it off the ground a little, but that would all be extra cost.

Seriously think about the pitched roof, it takes all the the weather away from the unit and the veranda's mean that you aren't trekking crud into the unit. The sheltered storage possibilities for equipment and supers is good. . . . I wish

Don't fill it up with junk . . .

Of course the roof first and with foresight.

 

[tidymeup]

The unit has jack legs so is about a foot off the floor already, I was going build a porch onto it and an sloping roof towards the back and allow it to overhang providing storage.

The quarry is owned by my parents so quite a few possibilities for adding to this unit.

I also need to make some screens for the windows so they can be open if needed without being full of bees and wasps.