What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[wightbees]

Ouch ! Hope it works after that..

 

[Eyeman]

Oh to have time to play!
Cleaned out my old faithful extractor motor & got the dial working smoothly. Managed to sort out the two grub screws on the cage- they both now grip the spindle.
To do 'tick list' is getting a bit shorter. Progress adds to motivation.

 

[enrico]

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

Yeghes da

I uses couple of those, good for deer as well, just remember that it will get you too!!! ( Sounds as though it will do less harm than a Stanley knife though!!) Don't put it facing the sunshine if you can help it or it keeps going off! Doesn't matter too much unless you are on metered water!
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[Anduril]

Recalibrated my ITC 1000 12v and 220v thermostats and my Sestos D1S VR 220 thermostat. All within 0.1°C of each other.

 

[wightbees]

Filled the caravan up last night with my delivery of boxes, frames and wax. Just need to put it all together now. With the cost of wood being high over here at present it just isn't cost effective building from scratch.

 

[Eyeman]

Filled the caravan up last night with my delivery of boxes, frames and wax. Just need to put it all together now. With the cost of wood being high over here at present it just isn't cost effective building from scratch.

Hope the caravan turns out to be a good hiding place! I've run out of places where I can hide my recent purchases from you-know-who!

 

[wightbees]

Good luck with that eyeman, though it increasingly becomes harder to explain when your putting the lot together lol

 

[Erichalfbee]

Drilled holes in the backs of more floors for the sublimox

 

[Eyeman]

Drilled holes in the backs of more floors for the sublimox

You not tempted to OAV through a reversible crown board?

 

[Hivemaker.]

Drilled holes in the backs of more floors for the sublimox

I know you've done it before, but be careful where you drill those holes, the blast of oxalic vapour is quite powerful and hot from a sublimox, which could quickly kill some bees if the cluster is low and the hole is in the wrong place, like parallel with the frames... and sods law one of those scorched bees could be the queen.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I know you've done it before, but be careful where you drill those holes, the blast of oxalic vapour is quite powerful and hot from a sublimox, which could quickly kill some bees if the cluster is low and the hole is in the wrong place, like parallel with the frames... and sods law one of those scorched bees could be the queen.

It's centre back, more or less opposite the entrance and I run the frames warm way......Not much difference than vaping from the front? What do think?
I might go back to the drawing board for the three nuc floors that are cold way.

 

[Erichalfbee]

You not tempted to OAV through a reversible crown board?

No because if I am vaping midwinter sometimes the clusters are at the top

 

[Michael Palmer]

Finished processing the 4000' of 1"x12" pine I bought back in December. Made a few hundred hive bodies to replace old boxes in my operation. Want solid equipment when I decide to retire. Now on to the 2000' of 1x10. Another winter of sawdust and the woodenware should be in great shape. Will be building 100 or so follower boards for more double mini-nucs. Need to mate more queens this summer. Getting large queen orders from Canada. Seems they're not too happy with the queens from Chile, Hawaii, and California. Chilean beekeeper working in British Columbia wants to take some back to his country.

 

[maddydog]

I might go back to the drawing board for the three nuc floors that are cold way.

I use a vapouriser that pumps out alot of oxalic (not hoppit's fogger!) I made a shallow box, with hole, that the nuc sits on. I lined the box rim with stick on draught excluder foam to make a good seal. Obviously my poly nucs have an omf

 

[Erichalfbee]

Thanks Maddy dog
I have an adaptor to do the Payne’s nucs that have an integral floor so they are vaped under the omf. The others are Payne’s nuc broods that sit on an underfloor entrance wooden floor. It might be safer doing them under the omf anyway

 

[maddydog]

Converted 20 old ufe's so they can used with the vapouriser.

Chopped up some cheap used polycarbonate sheets into 29 crownboards.

 

[Eyeman]

Cleaning off the last of the QE. Quick scrape with the wires then hot air gun to clear the gaps

 

[Eyeman]

Scraping from burr comb on super frames during extraction & cleaning QE generates a goodly amount of wax

 

[Brian Bush]

I have shed my winter indolence and put together 2 14x12 brood boxes wich I have made myself using WRC. I have grooved the internal faces to take dividers to divide into 3 sections. I intend to use them for queen mating using 3 sections and 3 different entrances. If I am short of full size brood boxes I can just remove the internal sections and use them as normal.

 

[maddydog]

Not the weather for me to earn income tax this week so spent it converting a shed into a honey house. Floor, walls and roof insulated and the floor boarded out ready for vinyl. Should be picking up some dairy board in a couple of weeks for the walls and ceiling