What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[For want of a better word]

I did a 200+mile round trip to USK today to collect some Western Red Cedar. took SWMBO with me. It cost me £50 in the garden centre for patio pots and another £20+ for lunch and tea. I am going to have to place a levy on each hive I make for my colleagues to pay for the trip!!!!!

How much was the WRC... ?

17 roofs down... 23 to go!... then 40 National OM Floors.

Sedum plants for the ( New workshop's) roof growing well in the pollytunnel... looks like we will need to take a lot more cuttings!

Yeghes da

 

[Brian Bush]

How much was the WRC... ?

17 roofs down... 23 to go!... then 40 National OM Floors.

Sedum plants for the ( New workshop's) roof growing well in the pollytunnel... looks like we will need to take a lot more cuttings!

Yeghes da

20 lengths at 1.2m X180mmX20mm for making roofs came to £55. This will make 10 roofs. Of course you have to add the cost of the top, a waterproof aluminium covering, screws, glue and an inner rail. £6.50 per roof.
The wood is quite wet and rough sawn so has to be put through the planer and allowed to dry.
Similarly enough timber to construct 10 14X12 brood boxes, side walls, rails etc came to £135.60. about £15.00 all in, per box.
This is excellent WRC and has the added benefit of giving me something to do in the workshop, away from SWMBO and the out-laws over winter.
I had some other pieces to build 10 floors and other bits and bobs and the whole lot cost me £205.56. The addition of SWMBO lunch and shopping pushes up the overall price , but what is the value of peace and quiet!!! A very pleasant day out across the Cotswolds and through the Forest of Dean and Wye and Usk valleys.
You have to order in advance and a lead time of about a fortnight is required.

 

[madasafish]

The addition of SWMBO lunch and shopping pushes up the overall price , but what is the value of peace and quiet!!!

Priceless.

 

[drex]

Just made up the BB' s and supers I bought in the January sales. The price of the BB's were about the same as Brian reckons his out at ( but mine were standard deeps) and all perfectly good even if they were seconds. I did not have the fun he had from his woodworking, but then my skills are obviosuly not up to his. I can manage the flat packs OK and enjoy putting them together.

 

[For want of a better word]

Just made up the BB' s and supers I bought in the January sales. The price of the BB's were about the same as Brian reckons his out at ( but mine were standard deeps) and all perfectly good even if they were seconds. I did not have the fun he had from his woodworking, but then my skills are obviosuly not up to his. I can manage the flat packs OK and enjoy putting them together.

Me too... think I will give the WRC a miss as the price I got standard broods for was a good 25% under the cost of buying in timber... even if sawn to size!

Maisies 2nd sale WRC Nat std Brood quality was far superior to Thrones and better machined... plus did not have fiddly plastic runners that have to be removed and replaced during the annual scorching!!

Yeghes da

 

[TooBee...]

20 lengths at 1.2m X180mmX20mm for making roofs came to £55. This will make 10 roofs. Of course you have to add the cost of the top, a waterproof aluminium covering, screws, glue and an inner rail. £6.50 per roof.

Hi,
your adding £6.50 per roof onto the cost of the wood, that £6.50 includes the "waterproof aluminium covering", may I ask where are you getting that?

I've tried to price aluminium sheeting but it's coming in quite a bit more than you costings!

 

[For want of a better word]

I was getting a sheet of Ally for £20... cut and bent... enough for 8 roofs.
The firm I used has been taken over by some government quango... so no more!
Waiting for more ally caravans to be abandoned on the A30 this summer as the grokkles /emmets/ people from up country abandon their tow along toys!
Last years crop were mostly plastic... don't make them like they used to!!

yeghes da

 

[TooBee...]

Waiting for more ally caravans to be abandoned on the A30 this summer as the grokkles /emmets/ people from up country abandon their tow along toys!

Caravan aluminium sheeting, good idea, I wonder if caravan dealers would have a source for that sheeting for the owners that find mysterious square holes in the sides of their caravans...?

 

[For want of a better word]

http://www.thorne.co.uk/wbc-porch

Should the rainwater drip be on the underside?

Yeghes da

 

[For want of a better word]

http://www.thorne.co.uk/wbc-porch

Should the rainwater drip be on the underside?

Yeghes da

 

[colinc]

http://www.thorne.co.uk/wbc-porch

Should the rainwater drip be on the underside?

Yeghes da

He describes it in the video as working like a gutter but hey ho. When the standing water tots through they can sell you a new one


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[deemann1]

Just square edged 20 lengths of mahogany I got from a job site for free unfortunately they skipped a heap of it before i arrived idiot's...
Done a cut list I'll have enough for 4 brood and 8 supers national .. these will be my first to build

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Gonna be some weight in that lot!

 

[madasafish]

Just square edged 20 lengths of mahogany I got from a job site for free unfortunately they skipped a heap of it before i arrived idiot's...
Done a cut list I'll have enough for 4 brood and 8 supers national .. these will be my first to build

Hope you are used to weightlifting...

 

[For want of a better word]

Just square edged 20 lengths of mahogany I got from a job site for free unfortunately they skipped a heap of it before i arrived idiot's...
Done a cut list I'll have enough for 4 brood and 8 supers national .. these will be my first to build

Have six mahogany National patten, but with WBC type slider entrance blockers
Made during WW11 at Hayle Motor Torpedo Boat Boatyard by Garfield Maddiver, passed down to me when his brother William retired from beekeeping 4 years ago.
Still in use... and HEAVY!!

Would post photo... but this forum does not support!

Yeghes da

 

[Millet]

Would post photo... but this forum does not support!

Yeghes da

It works for me.

 

[wightbees]

Cleaned out the work shop and had a nice fire burning all the crap I didn't clean up from last year. Loads to make again but a bit more organized this year..... Hopefully lol

 

[For want of a better word]

Sliced off the end of my thumb.... ouch!

Nos da

 

[wightbees]

How did you manage that?

 

[For want of a better word]

How did you manage that?

Cutting a length of hosepipe to connect the new battery operated "waterjet PIR Heron scarer"!!!!
Hope the device works

Yeghes da