Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this HONEY.- I Samuel 14:29
Posted in Bee Removals, Beekeeping, How-To on Mar 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
Anyone that has done more than one cut-out knows what a pain it is to try and tie the comb into frames. Yes rubber bands may be easier, but they bring there own challenges too as they can sag with heavy comb. My preferred method is to use cut-out frames which are just regular frames [...]
Posted in Beekeeping, How-To on Mar 2nd, 2009 12 Comments »
Another crappy weather day gave me the opportunity to build some more medium supers. I buy rough cut 1×8 lumber from a local mill. I plane the boards down to 7/8″ so the supers are a little bit tougher that the normal 3/4″ commercial supers. Then using the table saw, I cut the boards to [...]
Posted in Bee Removals, Beekeeping, How-To on Mar 27th, 2008 4 Comments »
Well I finally got around to building my “new and improved” bee vac design. I had it all figured out in my head for a while now, but never got to actually put one together. You can see it and all the details here.
Posted in How-To, The Farm on Sep 10th, 2007 6 Comments »
Tired of catching mice one at a time? Tired of all the hassles trying to set the traps? How about building a better mouse trap? One that is self resetting, has no poisons, and best of all can be built from stuff that you already have. Even better, you can build it in a matter [...]
Posted in Beekeeping, How-To on Sep 4th, 2007 1,501 Comments »
There are good reasons to have your queens marked, including: Ease in locating the queen during inspections. Confirm the hive hasn’t swarmed. Confirm the queen hasn’t been superseded. This can be very important in areas that have Africanized honeybees. Unfortunately, many folks don’t have marked queens. Whether it not being an option when the purchased [...]
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