pine wood rosine

[Barney]

Hi Everyone
Hope you-all had a heart worming and safe Chirstmas. Mine was sur special.
I have a question for those of you who make their own woodwork. I have purchsed some rough pine boards that was supposed to be under a shed drying for at least four months. When I planed it there is lots of pine rosine streaks and after a couple days I could see small amounts of rosine seeping fron the streaks. Will this hurt the bees if I use this wood in brood boxes? There is to much of it to use it in other non cantact parts of the hive.
Thanks for any help you provide.
Barney

[tecumseh]

I would think not. As a matter of fact I use to add a bit of rosin to beewax when I use to dip my own queen cell cups. It would make the wax slightly harder so that when you removed the cell cup from the form (a beveled stick) the new cup was a bit less fragile.

ps... where is Couth carolina?

[chillardbee]

Could anyone tell me where i might be able too buy some rosin. I'm intrested in dipping my supers and would apreciate any help from ya' all, thanks

[FordGuy]

tecumseh, you ain't pickin on the spellin of one of my fellow carolinians are ya? because if you are, i'd say it is east of un-couth texas.

[Michael Bush]

The bees will steal it for propolis. smile.gif

[mwjohnson]

Merry christmas to you also,Barney.
Up north,dad always wormed us kid's in the spring. smile.gif
But,I build my own stuff too,and I TRY to buy those kind of boards,you know,the ones that weigh a ton when you pick them up.
I almost always toss the ones that feel like balsa wood back on the pile.
Those droplets will harden up and you can brush them off...IF you aren't in too big a hurry,otherwise you're just gonna have to clean up your tools after your done(and you).
GOOD LUCK,I think building your stuff takes you to another level of beekeeping.
Mark

[LMN]

Barney
For the wood to be air dried properly it takes 1 year to the inch of thickness of the wood. That will get you down to about 20% moisture. That will be good enough for hives, but for indoor use like funiture you need a kiln to dry the wood. More that 20 % moisture the paint doesn't want to stick.

[Ronnie Elliott]

I live in the piney woods. I have some dead pines still standing, and some that have fallen down, and are on the burn pile, at my farm. I was thinking of taking them to a saw mill for milling down to 3/4-inches. They have been standing a year, or two before the wind blows them down. Is this wood already cured?

[BULLSEYE BILL]

>Could anyone tell me where i might be able too buy some rosin. I'm intrested in dipping my supers and would apreciate any help from ya' all, thanks


I called the order in to Pacific Coast, (510-549-3535) and asked for gum rosin. The invoice has it listed as;
WW GUM ROSIN; BRAZILIAN
55.12 @ .85 = 46.85
handling fee 1.42
freight 28.23
total = 76.50
76.50 div 50 = 1.53 per lb delivered

That beats Mann Lake's price of 1.69 per lb plus shipping.

[Ross]

Ronnie, they maybe pithy or have too many weather cracks by now. Wood dried in the round usually doesn't do too well.

[tecumseh]

Ronnie Elliott states:
I live in the piney woods. I have some dead pines still standing, and some that have fallen down, and are on the burn pile, at my farm. I was thinking of taking them to a saw mill for milling down to 3/4-inches. They have been standing a year, or two before the wind blows them down. Is this wood already cured?

tecumseh replies:
usually dead timber that is still standing will be sound. if timber lays on the ground for any period of time it has little value. when you cut this type of timber it will almost always have a grey/blue stain. if dead timber has stood erect for one season it will be fairly close to cured when you saw it up.