Top Tips for Saving Money in this fairly Expensive Hobby ??

[madasafish]

Make your own table saw from a forty quid circular saw and an old table top or workbench

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Mine consists of a £10 second hand saw from ebay (used once ) and a home made table from pallet wood.

£40 is extravagant

 

[REDWOOD]

Honey is the best bargaining resource a beekeeper can have

 

[Flyboy]

My best way of saving money is to build my own boxes. I use plywood but for starters, Ikea have a 'recycle' area where you can collect great pieces of material for roofs etc.

As for stands, pallets work a treat.

 

[madasafish]

I have just costed building my next Lang from scratch # vs buyng from Mann Lake. Mann Lake are cheaper...and better made.. I'll buy a complete hive and modify it to suit me...cheaper and quicker.

# I have already 3 home built.

 

[daroco]

I found similar with some pieces of kit - but busy making up a ton of crown boards now, seeing as they're easy enough. I reckon they cost £1.50ish to make vs £6 even in the sales.

 

[madasafish]

I found similar with some pieces of kit - but busy making up a ton of crown boards now, seeing as they're easy enough. I reckon they cost £1.50ish to make vs £6 even in the sales.

Agreed but if you only require 2-3 of any one piece of kit and making it yourself requires buying enough for 6 (eg ply sheets) then it sometimes makes sense to buy rather than make..

When you can buy a Lag super or brood box for under £10 and self assemble, there is no argument: buy.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Agreed but if you only require 2-3 of any one piece of kit and making it yourself requires buying enough for 6 (eg ply sheets) then it sometimes makes sense to buy rather than make..

When you can buy a Lag super or brood box for under £10 and self assemble, there is no argument: buy.

Always have twice as much spares stock as you think you will need If push comes to shove you won't be desperately casting around for equipment and paying high prices and shipping.

 

[madasafish]

Always have twice as much spares stock as you think you will need If push comes to shove you won't be desperately casting around for equipment and paying high prices and shipping.

I prefer to sell surplus bees...

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

I prefer to sell surplus bees...

Can I buy a couple of dozen workers?

Dusty

 

[madasafish]

Can I buy a couple of dozen workers?

Dusty

£100 per worker...

 

[For want of a better word]

We have some ducklings going cheep

Yeghes da