What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[madasafish]

Dam heavy though.

I rarely lift jumbo brood boxes -and especially not full ones ..And I am using shallow supers so that makes them lighter..I'll do a weight comparison of supers - when I have cut the wood.

 

[madasafish]

Weight comparison:using digital luggage scales so reasonably accurate.

Shallow Lang Super:

18mm Redwood: assembled, painted: 2.85Kg New.
18mm Plywood: wood only, unassembled, no handholds cut, no paint,no glue/screws : 2.95Kg..

Not a huge or significant difference. I was quite surprised..

 

[Swarm]

Weight comparison:using digital luggage scales so reasonably accurate.

Shallow Lang Super:

18mm Redwood: assembled, painted: 2.85Kg New.
18mm Plywood: wood only, unassembled, no handholds cut, no paint,no glue/screws : 2.95Kg..

Not a huge or significant difference. I was quite surprised..

Very surprised.

 

[Brian Bush]

Western Red Cedar

Journeyed down to USK today to collect my second order of WRC from C & G Barrett. Super service all the timber cut to requested size and thickness.
I am half way through the first load having made the outers for 3 modified WBC. I have made them slightly larger so they easily take National hives. Plan is to get as many of the exposed hives in the out apiaries double walled by Xmas.
The wood will have to dry before it is planed and turned into the components.
I entered one in the beekeeping related craft section of our association honey show and won the class.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Outside workshop today.
Husband built me a (another) Bee Shed while I held various bits of wood, drills and screwdrivers and handed him the requisite screws,nails and pins. I felt like a theatre nurse
We did all this ten feet behind the hives. Bees were so busy bringing in pollen like summer's day they totally ignored us.

NOW I can have everything to hand. No more traipsing across the field looking for emergency AS supplies

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

put together a few spare rooves and commenced painting them, at the same time I rendered down and filtered some wax cappings - just the fine filtering left now in preparation for next year's Royal Welsh show

 

[oliver90owner]

at the same time-...

How many hands do you have, JBM!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

at the same time-...

How many hands do you have, JBM!

the big bain marie simmering away whilst I was painting, filtering done in between coats - wax now graded into different qualities/colour ready for the final filter

 

[Erichalfbee]

I've just finished cutting correx inspection trays in the sunshine outside husband's workshop. He's away for a few days so I let the hens out into the garden (he gets a little tetchy about their pecking around his prized plants but hey....it's autumn now and most stuff has gone over). They are having a ball scratching around and sunbathing at the base of the pyracantha

 

[nantmoel]

Took delivery of a used Dewalt Radial Arm saw, put it all back together and I now want to build it into a bench to make it easier to cut long lengths. Had a nice stacked head 'Dado' blade with it, so this will make cutting the long groves into the side walls on nationals easier. Workshop complete now, just need to spend a few days in there tiding it up, then its flat out on the bee hives.

 

[REDWOOD]

made a honey warming cabinet from some spare Kingspan boards, i couldn't have picked a worst day do do it as the boards where flying everywhere, just waiting for my tube heater and controller to come from amazon

 

[nantmoel]

Prepared some Cedar to make the side of 14x12 brood boxes, I made the rail a few months ago. I will post some pictures of the finished boxes when complete.

 

[For want of a better word]

What did you do in the 'workshop' today


Finally..
20 foot x 10 foot Billy "OH".... cheaper than replacing a fallen down fence, by the time posts and rails were added.

Additions have been a 5 foot porch and another 6 foot shed for the Huge Charnwood dust extractor and my compressor at each end!

T&G was a bit flimsy so insulated with 25mm Kingspan and lined with fireproof Sundela board, walls and ceilings. floor also reinforced with 20mm sheets of marine ply underneath before fitting down onto block stanchions with steel girders on top to level.
Sparks has finished cabling up to new consumer unit... with a 16A ring for the heavier motors.

Kitchen units and a nearly new worktop in place and the plastic windows glazed in.

Band saw, Router table, Morticer and saw table placed but not fitted, not sure if to move little wood turning lathe, as firmly bolted down in Garage... but would be nice to have all the woodworking kit in one place.
Also yet to fit are woodworking vices and all the tube for the dust extractor.

Victorian street lamp post on the floor being painted at the moment... what else would you buy SWMBO for letting me have another shed?

( and a big thank you for the local developers who let me skip dip for timber/insulation/complete kitchen.... and even 50m of 6mm T&E cable... saved £££££s!!

Yeghes da

 

[user 6228]

made a honey warming cabinet from some spare Kingspan boards, i couldn't have picked a worst day do do it as the boards where flying everywhere, just waiting for my tube heater and controller to come from amazon

I've learnt only to work on PIR on very calm days. It seems obvious, but why is only after the fact of chasing the bits over the garden

 

[Millet]

I've learnt only to work on PIR on very calm days. It seems obvious, but why is only after the fact of chasing the bits over the garden

I damaged the ligaments in my ribs 4wks ago through messing about with kingspan in the wind, the wind took a piece over a fence and across a field, i tried to climb over the fence and slipped, my rib cage hit the top rail first, needless to say that piece of kingspan is still in that field.

 

[REDWOOD]

Ouch

 

[REDWOOD]

I've learnt only to work on PIR on very calm days. It seems obvious, but why is only after the fact of chasing the bits over the garden

It Would have been nice to have an option of a nice day but that was the only day I could do it.

 

[nantmoel]

Spent the day cutting 'glue line' fingers into a load of 14x12 side to make up the width I need, a quick pass over the planner and then onto the Spindle Moulder. Glueing takes an age, I only have 8 sash clamps so it 4 sides at a time, mind its only an hour turn around. I'll get there........

 

[Hivemaker.]

Spent the day cutting 'glue line' fingers into a load of 14x12 side to make up the width I need, a quick pass over the planner and then onto the Spindle Moulder. Glueing takes an age, I only have 8 sash clamps so it 4 sides at a time, mind its only an hour turn around. I'll get there........

Why not just use the correct width planks of timber, and make them as one piece?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

either that or clamp them together using sash cramps