I had a grand day out at Meon Valley BKA's 37th annual auction today. Plenty of great tea and cake to keep the energy up was a welcome start.
Unlike GBKA auction (next weekend) they had a listing of the 280 odd lots which was helpful.
A lot of langstroth, MD and commercial hives as well as some odd lots including a garden rotavator, pillar drill and a very Heath Robinson hand made extractor that had no gearing......! Work that out for yourself !
I came away with 5 BS nucs and a pair of apideas for a song and a big container of odds and ends which included some fine aluminium feeders for nucs and tools.
I missed out on the solar wax extractors - a lot of demand - and also a heather honey press that didn't make its reserve but by then I wanted to head home.
My other purchase was a wine (mead) cork bottling device that is an engineering marvel and only cost me £14.
Luckily I saved some money on that as the clutch on my 26 yr old Landy was almost with no play in the pedal by the time I got home so it's off to the garage next week to get that fixed !
KR
S
Unlike GBKA auction (next weekend) they had a listing of the 280 odd lots which was helpful.
A lot of langstroth, MD and commercial hives as well as some odd lots including a garden rotavator, pillar drill and a very Heath Robinson hand made extractor that had no gearing......! Work that out for yourself !
I came away with 5 BS nucs and a pair of apideas for a song and a big container of odds and ends which included some fine aluminium feeders for nucs and tools.
I missed out on the solar wax extractors - a lot of demand - and also a heather honey press that didn't make its reserve but by then I wanted to head home.
My other purchase was a wine (mead) cork bottling device that is an engineering marvel and only cost me £14.
Luckily I saved some money on that as the clutch on my 26 yr old Landy was almost with no play in the pedal by the time I got home so it's off to the garage next week to get that fixed !
KR
S
