Tree beehives.

[Hivemaker.]

Tree beehives in Poland, also an interesting video about it on the website.

http://bartnictwo.com/en/

 

[Finman]

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History and tourist thing on nature conservation area?

I met in an old Estonian farm house a real tree hive. It was a hollow tree trunk. Volume was really small, about 3-4 langstroth frames.

Actually I wonder, how it has been used. There must be a special bee strain, which make small colonies.

But in real life Poland is very advanced beekeeping country. 40 million people.
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[Finman]

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Compared to straw hive?

It is easy to animals to destroy a straw hive in free nature. Woodpeckers, pine marten, mice...
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Perhaps bears are rare in European countries.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Think I would use something much faster for hollowing out the tree trunks, chainsaw with a ripping chain and a chainsaw debarker with curved knives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRqsxTEvn4

 

[Finman]

Think I would use something much faster for hollowing out the tree trunks, chainsaw with a ripping chain and a chainsaw debarker with curved knives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRqsxTEvn4

What heck would I do with that "bird house"?

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[Hivemaker.]

What heck would I do with that "bird house"?

Think you will find the video is demonstrating a chainsaw log de-barker, not a bird house.

 

[Finman]

Think you will find the video is demonstrating a chainsaw log de-barker, not a bird house.

Sofisticated wooden hive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgsDWb0orSQ

 

[Hivemaker.]

Sofisticated wooden hive

No, not a beehive, Finman, he is making a nice lamp shade in that video.

 

[Quis Custodiet]

An interesting use of a lamp during the final stages of turning.

 

[Finman]

No, not a beehive, Finman, he is making a nice lamp shade in that video.

Oh dear!

If he stops doing a little bit earlier, he gets a beehive .

 

[Honeybeeco]

Think I would use something much faster for hollowing out the tree trunks, chainsaw with a ripping chain and a chainsaw debarker with curved knives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRqsxTEvn4

That is a hell of a good machine Hivemaker, easy to use and do the job. I didn't know anything like that existed. I think I'm going to look for one of those to put in the end of one of our old smaller chainsaws.

What would we do without you tube eh.