Equipment

All the gear, no idea.

Beekeepers love equipment – the sweet smelling cedar boxes, the warm efficiency of poly hives, cutting edge hive tools, the sweaty protective beesuits, the smokers, sublimators and other gadgets. And the one thing we love more than that lot is making it … from spares in the offcuts bin, scrounged Correx For Sale signs or sheets of Kingspan insulation retrieved by dumpster diving.

Here’s a retrospective listing of articles posted over the last few years under these various headings. 

The Bee Shed

Bee shed ...

Bee shed …

Bee sheds, bee houses and bee lean-to’s.

 

Hives and Nucs

An Abelo/Swienty hybrid hive ...

An Abelo/Swienty hybrid hive …

Cedar hives, poly hives and nucleus hives.

 

Roofs, floors and miscellaneous boards

Split board

Split board …

Roofs, floors, split boards, Cloake boards, queen excluders and ekes.

 

Frames

Foundationless frames

Foundationless frames …

Foundationless frames, building frames and starter strips.

 

Tools of the trade

Dadant smoker

Dadant smoker …

Smokers, vaporisers, sublimators, hive tools and DIY tools.

 

DIY

Starting materials ...

Starting materials …

Stuff you can make cheaper or better than you can buy, or stuff you can’t buy.

Don’t forget … measure twice, cut once, swear often  😉