Tips or advice

[Beefriendly]

I repeat KISS.

PH

Love you too sweety.... It was humorous...develop a sense of one please!

 

[madasafish]

I agree with KISS but run Lang jumbos. I don't want any disasters with frames and as I assemble frames on a jig of 9 frames, gluing takes about 1 minute top and bottom.. just run a drippy glue spout along the jig sides..

 

[Ely]

Love you too sweety.... It was humoUrless...develop a sense of one please!

Fixed

 

[Beefriendly]

Fixed

Good to see George Orwell's thought police out and in action.

 

[bjosephd]

I agree with KISS but run Lang jumbos. I don't want any disasters with frames and as I assemble frames on a jig of 9 frames, gluing takes about 1 minute top and bottom.. just run a drippy glue spout along the jig sides..

Just ordered 50 lang jumbos in the sales with the intent of furnishing (an as yet unmade) horizontal hive.

I did ‘t know there was aaanybody on here at all who ran on jumbo lang.

I’m tempted to experiment with an eke deepen’d 10 frame bb (mainly as I know I may not get round to building the long hive and it’ll have me a colony ready to go in when I do).

Any jumbo thoughts, advice, mistakes, significant differences?

And sorry to hijack the thread... so back on topic...

I like total belt and braces on frames as I like them rock solid. I use D4 glue (although the blue all weather evo is good stuff... just a bit pricey at last check). I still notice the sliiiight wobble in the frames that never got glued.

Never boiled then up though, sorry.

B

 

[madasafish]

Just ordered 50 lang jumbos in the sales with the intent of furnishing (an as yet unmade) horizontal hive.

I did ‘t know there was aaanybody on here at all who ran on jumbo lang.

I’m tempted to experiment with an eke deepen’d 10 frame bb (mainly as I know I may not get round to building the long hive and it’ll have me a colony ready to go in when I do).

Any jumbo thoughts, advice, mistakes, significant differences?

And sorry to hijack the thread... so back on topic...

I like total belt and braces on frames as I like them rock solid. I use D4 glue (although the blue all weather evo is good stuff... just a bit pricey at last check). I still notice the sliiiight wobble in the frames that never got glued.

Never boiled then up though, sorry.

B

My advice on jumbo langs?
1. Make a frame stand..Makes queen marking far easier.
2. Make a lightweight (mine is around 5kgs) portable hive stand ## - I use plastic pipes sliced along the length and screwed to the verticals with the curve downwards so they can be easily pulled over ground. IF you are manipulating jumbo brood boxes, lifting them onto the ground/off again will give you a sore back or a hernia or both.. Keep boxes at 20-30cms off the ground. See pictures.
Edit: So when lifting off a jumbo brood box, move portable stand beside hive (to minimise distance lifted and avoid twisting when lifting - bad for backs) and lift box onto portable stand. I also use it when removing supers...
3. Have space on your hive stand to rest frames against hive.
4. Fill unused space with insulated boards - jumbo hives are big and it's a lot of space to fill. 3-4 frames of bees do better in a 5 frame nuc.

Other than that.. much as normal size hives except removal/replacement of frames needs care. I use only 9 frames and have a dummy at one end in most hives.. makes initial frame removal simpler.

## I use recycled scrap shop counters which are over 50 years old, power sanded to remove paint and 3 coats of a water based woodstain

Edit #2 All my wooden hives are covered with poly cosies. A jumbo hive has a large surface area...Year 1 of running them with no cosies there was mildewed comb. Year 2 on with cosies...no mildewed comb.

 

[Beefriendly]

I repeat KISS.

PH

Dear Polyhive, thank you ever so much for your polite (not) personal mail informing me I am now on your ignore list. Excuse me while I dance round the room with glee.
Should you ever wish to kiss and make up I shall always bee there for you.
Take care.
Of course you won't now be able to read this...

 

[For want of a better word]

Dear Polyhive, thank you ever so much for your polite (not) personal mail informing me I am now on your ignore list. Excuse me while I dance round the room with glee.
Should you ever wish to kiss and make up I shall always bee there for you.
Take care.
Of course you won't now be able to read this...

Only when you "diss" Polly and someone re~posts your unnecessary remarks?

KISS



Yeghes da

 

[Beefriendly]

O

KISS

I knew you wouldn't let me down hoppy... you are a creature of habit!

 

[For want of a better word]

I knew you wouldn't let me down hoppy... you are a creature of habit!

Just eating my chicken pie and taking a break from knocking up yet another 40 brood boxes Thrones delivered this morning!!!

Yeghes da... KISS

 

[Stiffy]

For supers, I don't use nails, staples or glue. Just beesy frame corners. Snap together.

See link.

For broods, glue and either nails or staples - whatever is closest at the time.

Beesy frame corners look good for beeks with a small number of hives but are cost prohibitive when you are making 100's.
Never use glue on frames as I need to be able to disassemble and re-pin easily and quickly.
S

 

[Millet]

I do a quite a bit of DIY when i need to and i glue and screw just about everything but i can not for the life of me imagine why you would need to use glue when assembling frames, it is a total waste of glue and time imo because once they are in the hive bees fill any gaps with natures glue (propolis) and then they pull everything together inside the frame with a funny wax like structure..
Them nail guns look handy mind .

 

[Curly green fingers]

I do a quite a bit of DIY when i need to and i glue and screw just about everything but i can not for the life of me imagine why you would need to use glue when assembling frames, it is a total waste of glue and time imo because once they are in the hive bees fill any gaps with natures glue (propolis) and then they pull everything together inside the frame with a funny wax like structure..
Them nail guns look handy mind .

( like button)
Them nail guns look handy mind .[/QUOTE] not when the nails go through your finger there not!

 

[mbc]

The best tip I ever heard was not to use a towel from the floor in a bathroom with a bidet to dry your face.

 

[Ely]

The best tip I ever heard was not to use a towel from the floor in a bathroom with a bidet to dry your face.

Don’t eat yellow snow ranks quite highly also

 

[colinc]

Don’t get sand in your Vaseline,

Don’t wipe your backside with sandpaper.

Both chafe.


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[SDM]

not when the nails go through your finger there not!

To be fair, I use a Brad push and they can sting a bit too. If a frame splinters or nail slips or bends I've driven a fair few straight into the palm of my hand so that I needed pliers to get them out.

 

[Curly green fingers]

To be fair, I use a Brad push and they can sting a bit too. If a frame splinters or nail slips or bends I've driven a fair few straight into the palm of my hand so that I needed pliers to get them out.

Dangerous things in the wrong hands you don't realize how powerful they are good old fashioned hammer and nails for me thank you

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[enrico]

I haven't posted this one for a while but I find it useful.
When making frames make loads in advance without the wax. Simply pin the side bars to the top bar leaving the wobbly bit in place on the top bar. Then pin ONE bottom rail, the one opposite the wobbly bit.now if you need a frame urgently you slide in the wax pin the last bottom rail and jobs done. Always pin the bottom rails from the bottom and not from the sides using a pin at each end of each bottom rail then they come off easily if you need to change the wax. If you pin from the sides then you have to break them off if the pin is poropolised in.
Nothing worse than trying to make loads of frames in ana emergency!!!
E

 

[Millet]

To be fair, I use a Brad push and they can sting a bit too. If a frame splinters or nail slips or bends I've driven a fair few straight into the palm of my hand so that I needed pliers to get them out.

Have you considered paying specsavers a visit..