What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What is this rebate for? I don't see its function as essential and it is a little extra work.

very essential - bottom bee space

 

[drex]

For over the ends of the top bars beneath

 

[Erichalfbee]

Stan’s been refurbishing an old WBC for me to put at the end of the drive as a garden ornament. I caught him blocking off the entrance ....... I’ve been rumbled
I had to own up and he left it open

 

[pargyle]

Stan’s been refurbishing an old WBC for me to put at the end of the drive as a garden ornament. I caught him blocking off the entrance ....... I’ve been rumbled
I had to own up and he left it open

I tried to convince 'er indoors that 5 of my 8 hives were intended as just garden ornaments and the fact that there were flying insects going in and out of them when she looked at them was pure coincidence ... Not sure she believed me ...

 

[Newbeeneil]

Stan’s been refurbishing an old WBC for me to put at the end of the drive as a garden ornament. I caught him blocking off the entrance ....... I’ve been rumbled
I had to own up and he left it open

I revamped this 2 lift old WBC I got off Freecycle with an additional lift and had it sign written for £50. It's been worth its weight in gold as passers by see it and stop to buy honey.
(No one knows it's got a bait hive inside!)

 

[Murox]

Been busy making up an insulated long hive - work in progress. All from scrap materials except for the cut to size ply. I'll try and get some pics up .

 

[Swarm]

I revamped this 2 lift old WBC I got off Freecycle with an additional lift and had it sign written for £50. It's been worth its weight in gold as passers by see it and stop to buy honey.
(No one knows it's got a bait hive inside!)

How much??!!

 

[Newbeeneil]

How much??!!

The WBC needed a new roof which was about £15, the new timber about £5 & professional sign writing was £30.
The sales since I have had it have rocketed, yesterday a car stopped and 3 people got out who spent £10 each!. When I had a small standard sign no cars stopped only pedestrians.
In fact sales have been so good I will have sold all my 600lb crop before Xmas!

 

[Swarm]

Crikey, that's still ten quid a word.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I revamped this 2 lift old WBC I got off Freecycle with an additional lift and had it sign written for £50. It's been worth its weight in gold as passers by see it and stop to buy honey.
(No one knows it's got a bait hive inside!)

That’s pretty good
Hmmmm we are not on a road but we are on a bridle path
I wonder?

 

[madasafish]

That’s pretty good
Hmmmm we are not on a road but we are on a bridle path
I wonder?

Facebook Marketplace reaches LOTS AND :LOTS of people who want "natural,unprocessed and RAW" honey.. ##

I virtuially doubled sales over two years using it..One buyer ended up with well over £200 worth of honey...(I do not discount)

## the words in inverted commas seem to ring bells in the readers' minds and are well worth using (abusing?).

 

[Erichalfbee]

Facebook Marketplace reaches LOTS AND :LOTS of people who want "natural,unprocessed and RAW" honey.. ##

I virtuially doubled sales over two years using it..One buyer ended up with well over £200 worth of honey...(I do not discount)

## the words in inverted commas seem to ring bells in the readers' minds and are well worth using (abusing?).

Not here
People want one jar delivered twenty miles or posted free

 

[BMH]

The WBC needed a new roof which was about £15, the new timber about £5 & professional sign writing was £30.
The sales since I have had it have rocketed, yesterday a car stopped and 3 people got out who spent £10 each!. When I had a small standard sign no cars stopped only pedestrians.
In fact sales have been so good I will have sold all my 600lb crop before Xmas!

How much do you charge for your honey out of interest?

 

[Murox]

Insulated 'long' hive

Here's a few pics. I'm no carpenter -but it works.
Construction

The interior

Small exit/entrance 18mm - pipe to be cut off

Underfloor entrance, large enough to accept a pan type vaporiser.

Frames are deeper than they are wide

 

[Newbeeneil]

Crikey, that's still ten quid a word.

But it's both sides of the hive!
It must have taken him 2 hours to prepare and write, what professions do you know that work for £15hr?

 

[Newbeeneil]

How much do you charge for your honey out of interest?

£5 for a 340g hex jar. I could probably get more but putting a fiver through the letter box is very convenient.

 

[Newbeeneil]

Here's a few pics. I'm no carpenter -but it works.
Construction

The interior

Small exit/entrance 18mm - pipe to be cut off

Underfloor entrance, large enough to accept a pan type vaporiser.

Frames are deeper than they are wide

Nicely done Murox,
I'm just about to transfer a colony into mine, I'll try to put some more pics up now it's complete.

 

[Newbeeneil]

That’s pretty good
Hmmmm we are not on a road but we are on a bridle path
I wonder?

It's not a big road, more a lane at the edge of the village.
We sell a lot to walkers at the weekends. We have about 3 footpaths that converge within a few hundred yards of the house and the pub which is used by walkers 200yrds down the hill.

 

[Swarm]

Pot of paint and steady hand spring to mind

 

[Brian Bush]

Completed the 'Cottage Hive' I am entering in the craft class at our Association Honey Show today.