Hello from southwest Arkansas

welcome

flatfootflukey said:

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Cant wait been a good 9 months or so since I got the hives . And I'm getting so nervous wait'n these last few weeks for the nucs . Between the being 100% newbie and all the money I have tied up in 12 hives .

Welcome !! Hives look good even better with bees in them!! I am not to far south of you and new also. Five hives for a year. Doing splits now and picking up more nucs in a few weeks also. Good Luck!!!

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Welcome!

Welcome, sounds like your jumping right in, look up a local club. PS. that mower will vibrate to much for the bees.

good looking stand.
on the ones I made I welded a nut on the bottom of each leg. that way you can just screw the bolts in or out of each leg to make leveling the stand a snap.

flatfootflukey said:

good looking stand.
on the ones I made I welded a nut on the bottom of each leg. that way you can just screw the bolts in or out of each leg to make leveling the stand a snap.

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Ya I was going to make a slip leg to do the same . But Think i mite do the bolt and nut now . Thanks

From magnolia here! you have quite the set up! Sounds like you will be spending a lot of time with bees! Are you in it for the honey? Pollination of flowers or fruit trees? I get my first nuc in a week. I will have all of my hives sitting on palets since I get them free from work. Wish you luck!!

Welcome to the site. Nice looking bee yard.

Daniel brown said:

From magnolia here! you have quite the set up! Sounds like you will be spending a lot of time with bees! Are you in it for the honey? Pollination of flowers or fruit trees? I get my first nuc in a week. I will have all of my hives sitting on palets since I get them free from work. Wish you luck!!

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In it for a little of it all . I have a 20 acre peach orchard that I have started have it a little over a 1/4 planted and will finish planting it the first of next year . So I need pollination . And need the honey also . My goal is a 100 hives or so .
And ya I will spending the most time with them tell I get my hired hands trained .

And I could use pallets also since I get them for free from feed stores . But I want my yards nice and neat since they can be seen from the roads . Plus I just want them nice and neat . My stands ideas came from here just my design .

Well posting this a little here before I go get the 6 package/2frame nucs. Going to be a interesting day my full bee suit with veil hasn't came in the mail yet . I do have a super cheap one and I mean super cheap that normal clothes offer more protection that I doubt I wear. So mite die today from bee stings .

So a newbie starting with no suit or vail I'm sure today.

So if I don't post in this thread say from 7-10 this evening/night . Y'all will know things went really bad . Lol but no really .

We're good light color clothes and your cheap suit. You will be ok. Use lots of smoke!

Well I Survived the packaging in my hives and getting homed and open .
Though I would be tough at the place got them . Since the old bee keeper wasnt wearing a suit or veil his son and the other couple that was there to get there bees was. So after about 5 mins in a full swarm of dumping package bees in to hive I took a sting to the face right cheek . The old man said I mite wait to suit up . So I did and no problems after that the cheapo suit worked great . O it was two 40 pound or so packages I stood through. My 6 hives got 35 pounds of bees Divided throught them and each got a frame of brood and a frame of honey . They made it the 2 hours back home fine and I got them out .