What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[Millet]

Over the past few days i have knocked together 100 frames but left the foundation out till they are needed and made a couple more crown boards, that gives me 4 x full hives spare if i ever need them this season.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Over the past few days i have knocked together 100 frames but left the foundation out till they are needed and made a couple more crown boards, that gives me 4 x full hives spare if i ever need them this season.

You have 25 frame hives?

 

[Millet]

You have 25 frame hives?

.. I have standard national boxes that hold 11 hoffman frames on runners, the frames i put together where 50 deep and 50 shallow, i also have a pile of frames that i knocked up last year and the year before which will give me spares incase i need them for the two Nucs i have, does that settle your curiosity..

 

[maddydog]

Fancied a day off from paying tax so made a 100 14*12 frames up. Enough for 4 hives

 

[Millet]

Fancied a day off from paying tax so made a 100 14*12 frames up. Enough for 4 hives

Do you have 25 frame hives..or double brood with spares for a single box..

 

[BKF Admin]

Do you have 25 frame hives..or double brood with spares for a single box..

Don't tell him pike

 

[maddydog]

Do you have 25 frame hives..or double brood with spares for a single box..

Just a weak sense of humour

 

[Millet]

 

[mickbees23]

Fancied a day off from paying tax so made a 100 14*12 frames up. Enough for 4 hives

That is my retirement plan. Thursday I had a day off paying tax to refurbish a very old WBC hive which will be a garden ornament and may even double as a bait hive if no one tells the wife ;-)

 

[Eyeman]

Do you have 25 frame hives..or double brood with spares for a single box..

Was wondering that myself!
Double brood 14x12's are heavy going. I had several last season and I have vowed this season to swap frames with stores for drawn comb or foundation or even remove brood so that the queen has more space.

 

[maddydog]

That is my retirement plan. Thursday I had a day off paying tax to refurbish a very old WBC hive which will be a garden ornament and may even double as a bait hive if no one tells the wife ;-)

I semi-retired about 10 years ago in my 30's, now I just work 6.5 days a week instead of 7!

 

[maddydog]

Was wondering that myself!
Double brood 14x12's are heavy going. I had several last season and I have vowed this season to swap frames with stores for drawn comb or foundation or even remove brood so that the queen has more space.

I was having a little gag at Millet's expense

Did a few demaree's with 14*12 when I first started, never again, I'm a fit 47yo but not for much longer if I carried on shifting boxes that heavy! Same as you I balance colonies and make space.

 

[colinc]

Cut the feeders out of 2 Payne’s poly nucs to make them 8 frames instead of 6. Bees seem to be going crazy.


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[Beefriendly]

Cut the feeders out of 2 Payne’s poly nucs to make them 8 frames instead of 6. Bees seem to be going crazy.

They are upset because you cut their feeder out? Not surprised Particularly if they were in the nuc when you did it

 

[colinc]

They are upset because you cut their feeder out? Not surprised Particularly if they were in the nuc when you did it

Ah Context lost when typing on phone. Should have been 2 paragraphs. I have started to see scouts checking roof lines etc, 2 hives doing well, old girl struggling. The nuc's are new and are for splits as a friend wants a colony. Not seen any QC's and minimal drone brood but they are plotting, I can feel it in me bones.

 

[user 6228]

Finished gluing the Ally cladding on Artificial tree nr 6.
Next job paint 5 & 6 then start on the wood liners of 7 to 12 from scaffold plank 2nds

 

[charlievictorbravo]

Finished gluing the Ally cladding on Artificial tree nr 6.
Next job paint 5 & 6 then start on the wood liners of 7 to 12 from scaffold plank 2nds

Have you made a start on writing the PIR Homemade Hive book yet? On a 14x12 format, the PIR brood boxes are quite light so reduced lifting issues!

CVB

 

[Erichalfbee]

Have you made a start on writing the PIR Homemade Hive book yet? On a 14x12 format, the PIR brood boxes are quite light so reduced lifting issues!

CVB

Oh dear..... I think I’ve just found some more work for Stan

 

[user 6228]

Have you made a start on writing the PIR Homemade Hive book yet? On a 14x12 format, the PIR brood boxes are quite light so reduced lifting issues!

CVB

Meanwhile back in the research CAD office the tasks are:
re-factor the comb building CAD object model so that trees and hives share the same code
write a chapter for a book on "future hives".
Write an article for BBKA news.
Write an article for BeeCraft.
...and do some CFD research
... and do the drawings for PIR hives

 

[maddydog]

Have you made a start on writing the PIR Homemade Hive book yet? On a 14x12 format, the PIR brood boxes are quite light so reduced lifting issues!

CVB

Will they survive a trip to apples, osr, beans, and heather though?