May 15, 20242 yr Popular Post comment_335708 The president of the local beekeepers club asked if I could make a scale model of beehive equipment for demonstration. I scaled one down 50%, hit the cutoff and small stock stash and made a bottom board, inner cover, outer cover, shallow super (used for honey), deep super (generally brood chamber) and medium AKA Illinois super. The mock frames were the hardest part because I was working down to mm. After several attempts, I salvaged some of the prototypes and made 5 frames. It all fits in one Amazon box now. Report
May 15, 20242 yr Popular Post comment_335712 Never realized there was so much inside nest box. Report
May 15, 20242 yr Popular Post comment_335713 "this is for the miniature bees we're working on ...." Report
May 15, 20242 yr Author Popular Post comment_335715 1 hour ago, lew said: Never realized there was so much inside nest box. Depending on the size, there are 8,9, or 10 frames per box. There's also a thing called queen excluder, a wire grid that workers can go thru but the queen cannot. It keeps the queen from laying eggs in what you want to be honey frames. There's also entrance guards to keep mice out in the winter, feeders, escapes (one way gates) to get the bees out of the honey supers so you can pull them to extract the honey. Report
May 21, 20242 yr Popular Post comment_335946 Incredible work, you killed it @kmealy We happen to have one of the largest bee keeping supply companies in the US right here local. It's been here for years... Kelley Beekeeping - YouTube https://youtu.be/8kFKgfz7bl0?si=VtdBrI7kceaDQrbO Edited May 21, 20242 yr by aaronc Report
May 21, 20242 yr Author Popular Post comment_335950 2 hours ago, aaronc said: Incredible work, you killed it @kmealy We happen to have one of the largest bee keeping supply companies in the US right here local. It's been here for years... Kelley Beekeeping - YouTube https://youtu.be/8kFKgfz7bl0?si=VtdBrI7kceaDQrbO Yes, I've bought stuff from them. I started keeping bees in 1982 was off for a few years when I lived were I could not keep them, then got back in when I moved to current house. The latest boxes I bought were from a friend that bought out a small supply company and gets his woodenware from Ohio Amish. Their prices made it impractical for me to make them. There was also a big supplier in northeast Ohio that apparently has gone out of business. There was also a local guy who made his own equipment for making parts. When I bought some stuff from him, I got the shop tour in his barn. The company (name) is still near here, but since the guy was old in the 1980s, I'm sure he's gone and sold the business. Report
May 25, 20242 yr comment_336105 Never realized there was so much inside nest box. There is a maker I follow on YouTube that does some beekeeping and does an occasional video on it. It is pretty interesting. The Clack Shack Report
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