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I put out a few swarm traps last week. Was on property that one was placed on today and low and behold as I was telling my buddy what to look for when he checks the ones I gave him to put on his...

Just wondering on average how many shallow supers or whatever size supers you use for surplus honey do you get off your hives? Thought it would be nice to see what average is in other areas.

If I buy from my local sawmill I normally get whatever size I am looking for in pine for $.50 bf Normally its less then that cause he always rounds down on the bf and always has extra stuff laying...

I found the old queen and a much bigger new queen this weekend in my observation hive here is a short video of the two queens side by side. As of right now they are both still in there together....

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A co-worker had a pine cut down in his yard this week. I told him I would remove the log if the guy wanted to charge him to take it. So today we went over to load the trailer down with some wood....

One of my Carniolan queens from Koehnen

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no just one leaf blower

Ok so I have not invested in a dust collector and after moved piles of chips from planner we became creative. Its not pretty but man does it blow some chips out.
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I have several big cedar logs I am fixing to take to saw mill and get ripped down. Will save me some money this way. Its going to cost me $.20 a board foot. The guy that has sawmill has some cedar...

Lol I don't mind it was not my idea. I have one of these I bought years ago from a Amish man in Ohio and mine has the brush holder on it.

Didn't manage to get all the hives split today will finish tomorrow. But was able to take 3 hives and turn them into 5 hives and 6 NUCS. Then moved the mother hives and Split hives to new yard and...

Built this for my buddy that is starting in the bees with me this year. This was his Birthday gift....

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Picture of inner cover before vent hole cut out....

Few pictures of the work we been doing. Need to get to painting pretty soon.

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Well after looking and doing alot of reading. We did a little brain storming and used up a few pieces of scrap wood but think we have us a jig made that works pretty good. Here what we did.

We put...

Made a few bottom boards from the cut off we had when making the Deep boxes and made a few shallow supers.
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Ok all you build it yourself people. What do you use for metal on Tele covers you make? Where do you normally get it? And how do you bend the sides down?

Not going to use honey for me I will use it when I split these hives and give to the splits. $300 for everything.

While eating breakfast this morning I was looking thru craigslist. I found a add for hives for sale. After looking at the add and contacting the seller. I find out he is moving and needs to sell the...

managed to get time to build one bottom board today
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Dado blades on table saw. I built the finger joint jig that is on here. Works well so far.

Planed and cut out few more hive bodys yesterday.
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And from the...

Here is the first run of boxes we have ever made. Got a stack of lumber ready to plane and cut down. I think the finger joints came out pretty good sense I've never made them before. Next run I will...

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