What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[maddydog]

Another 20 Swienty 14*12 poly pieced together and sprayed with masonry paint. Nice to be able to leave them outside for a bit to dry.

 

[Brian Bush]

Made 4 roofs yesterday. Used WRC for the sides and raided my neighbour's skip for some sterling board for the tops. I have some scrap aluminium to cover two of them and I am going to cannibalize a couple of old roofs for the other 2.

 

[Beefriendly]

Steam cleaned and sterilized 14 supers worth of frames from last years heather. Scraped all the channels out ready to add fresh foundation when the weather warms up a bit more...the wax is very brittle at 7C.
That's 8 hours of my life I won't get back.....and alas the same tomorrow.....
I can see why some buy frames with foundation already fitted!

 

[Millet]

Steam cleaned and sterilized 14 supers worth of frames from last years heather. Scraped all the channels out ready to add fresh foundation when the weather warms up a bit more...the wax is very brittle at 7C.
That's 8 hours of my life I won't get back.....and alas the same tomorrow.....
I can see why some buy frames with foundation already fitted!

That sounds like a soul destroying way to spend your day..

 

[pargyle]

That sounds like a soul destroying way to spend your day..

 

[Beefriendly]

That sounds like a soul destroying way to spend your day..

I can think of more fun things to do...but the frames will be needed and with no staff other than myself.
What I don't quite understand is why pargyle is throwing up at your comment?

 

[Brian Bush]

Completed sheeting the 4 roofs today and made 4 floors. The damp began to attack my bones late in the afternoon. Brood boxes tomorrow?????

 

[The Poot in Somerset]

That sounds like a soul destroying way to spend your day..

I thought about cleaning my frames today and very quickly came up with a better one. Never put off till tomorrow, that which you can do next week.

 

[Millet]

I thought about cleaning my frames today and very quickly came up with a better one. Never put off till tomorrow, that which you can do next week.

I have a old Burco boiler to use, when i have a sufficient amount of frames to clean i will fire it up and stick the dirty frames in the boiling water, it might put the lecky bill up a little but it will melt all the wax out of the groves pretty quickly me thinks.

 

[Insy]

Made 14 floors and 6 roofs since yesterday, will try to finish the other 8 roofs next 2 evenings after work.

 

[drex]

Yesterday I went skip diving and got some large sheets of OSB, intending to use it to make up some bait hives. ( enough board for three boxes) Spent the afternoon drawing up a cutting sheet. Wish I had cut the sheets up yesterday - they are much too big to do in my shed.
I could have been building the boxes in my shed today, with a heater on, but as it is we have snow on the ground again. Guess I will just have an easy day, and might do a bit of study for my general husbandry exam

 

[drex]

whoops. Double post. Sorry

 

[Helen]

Finished my 2 new modified Dartingtons. I use normal national supers so reduce the size a little so 2 of them fit. Normal dartington hive is slightly bigger to take into account the size of 4 dartington mini-supers.

Also modified the legs to incorporate tee nuts on the foot so I can screw in threaded bar. Just need to create 4 mini concrete feet with embedded threaded bar. Avoids the use of paving slabs or suchlike to stand them on, and protects the wooden legs from rotting as above the ground.

 

[Brian Bush]

I spent some time today cutting two sheets of sterling board. They have provide the tops for 10 flat roofs and six wbc gabled roofs. Better than allowing the builders to 'skip' them

 

[Swarm]

Wish we had that type of builder around here.

 

[nantmoel]

Made two cloak boards for Poly Nucs, I must say they turned out to be a pain to make, I run a number of double nucs each summer so I thought why not use them for queen rearing.

 

[nantmoel]

Made two cloak boards for Poly Nucs, I must say they turned out to be a pain to make, I run a number of double nucs each summer so I thought why not use them for queen rearing.

Here are a few photographs, I have since rounded the external corners.

 

[Olivia9801]

Made my own frames

Found an improvised way to speed up the process of making my own frames.

Using a router table and saw bench and a couple of hand made jigs, i was able to make 130 end frames for my supers. These take the longest due to the shaping and joints. The other component parts are simply ripped through the saw bench and are so easy to make.

I got them all stacked ready for this summers bumper nectar flows and need for loads and loads of supers!!!!! (Fingers crossed anyway!)

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Had a lightbulb moment in the workshop the other day - putting new frames together can be a bit of a drudge, especially when you do them a few hundred at a time, so with loads of scraps of timber around of no real use I made myself a little jig to make nailing frames up easier.
This one is set up for SN1 frames, DN4 or 14x12's, but it can also be used to make up DN1 frames if you just remove the two little shims I've put in to keep the Hoffmans flat.
That's my home made bee equipment entry for the Gower show sorted

 

[madasafish]

Almost completed pollen trap using star plastic remover from Thrones. It's a labour of bodgery.