Hive tools

[bjosephd]

Next year I'm going to buy 10 hive tools.

 

[B+.]

Next year I'm going to buy 10 hive tools.

Buy a metal detector. Then you can find all those that other beekeepers have lost too! ;-)

 

[Millet]

Stitch some magnets into your gloves that way you will not be able to put it down.. lol

 

[colinc]

Run a string through your sleeves like glove retainers


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[protheroe]

I normally find mine again in winter once all the vegetation has died back

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Run a string through your sleeves like glove retainers


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That takes me back more than a few years to when my kids were at infant school

 

[Anduril]

Buy one of these if you can whistle.http://www.prezzybox.com/key-finder...MIpr2SloDk1QIVDjPTCh1COQoBEAQYBiABEgLDWfD_BwE

 

[Beefriendly]

Buy one of these if you can whistle.http://www.prezzybox.com/key-finder...MIpr2SloDk1QIVDjPTCh1COQoBEAQYBiABEgLDWfD_BwE

Or buy 2 hive tools for the same price? for those who can't whistle....

 

[bjosephd]

Haha loving these solutions...

I'm tempted to have one per hive that lives on top of the crown board.

And maybe a pair of gloves per hive on the crown board also.

And a sawdust/dry grass/newspaper dust-bin in the middle of the apiary.

 

[bjosephd]

Buy a metal detector. Then you can find all those that other beekeepers have lost too! ;-)

I have a horrible feeling that my lawn mower is one day going to make a rather effective 'metal detector'.

 

[Codford]

Yesterday I had a quiet chuckle at this thread. Guess what happened at some stage during today's inspection...? No prizes!

 

[Helen]

Get one of these. Cheap, will also double as a wrist protector to stop bees climbing up inside your sleeves.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-W...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6YB0SFBQATJGAM8CDNBN

 

[madasafish]

Mine is sprayed bright yellow...It is DIY'd (angle grinder + length of steel)with a wooden handle and covered with masking tape which I replace regularly to keep it from being too sticky. The sharp end is very sharp.. It is now over 7 years old - a triumph of my razor sharp memory of where I placed it and my keen eyesight..or is it the yellow paint?

 

[Millet]

Get one of these. Cheap, will also double as a wrist protector to stop bees climbing up inside your sleeves.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magnetic-W...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6YB0SFBQATJGAM8CDNBN

That would double up as magnetic therapy for any ailments to the owld wrist joints ..

 

[MartinL]

Next year I'm going to buy 10 hive tools.

You planning on loosing 9 then?

 

[Codford]

Hive tools are clearly in the same category as: socks, clothes hangers, glasses cases and Tupperware lids that fit....

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[Anduril]

I've still got my first hive tool, it's 36 years old.

 

[pargyle]

Hive tools are clearly in the same category as: socks, clothes hangers, glasses cases and Tupperware lids that fit....

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Tape measures, pencils and elastic bands when you need them.

Personally, anything I really need should be surgically grafted to part of my body ... I'm thinking hive tool in place of two fingers and a hook for my smoker between my knees ...

 

[REDWOOD]

you need to learn how to keep your hive tool in your hand at all times, pity they don't teach this in the basic exam.
I painted mine with hi vis paint but it soon came off with soda crystal solution

 

[Finman]

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I have 10 Mora knives. But even they are somewhere when I need one.

Price a piece 2.50

I need more.