Hi all I am sorry, but I forgot to post the URL as promised... http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/snelgroveboard.html Best Regards & 73s... Dave Cushman,...
hey all, just wanna find out if anyone has any easy ideas how to build a honey extractor? i only have 2 hives so small is good. every year i just let the honey...
Squash w/ potato masher? (this destoroys comb, which you then melt for other projects.) Heat slightly before draining? Or, sell the honey in the comb or cut...
Karen. Selling granulated honey as cut comb was frowned upon in our beekeeping association, not quite the thing to do, you know. One problem is that if you...
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... <SNIP> ... When you figure pound for pound prices I think wax is worth more, but when you figure it takes what, 8 pounds of honey to make one pound of wax?...
I've seen the same done to clean out extracting equipment -- it does tend ot end with quite a few dead bees. Of course at that time of year, most would die by...
Several years ago a single frame extractor was sold for about $50US. It was a stainless steel box about six inches longer than a frame with two eye bolts on...
I have a 1915 book about beekeeping in India which shows a single frame extractor. Imagine a 3 foot length of iron rod about 1 inch diameter, sticking up from...
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Apr 1, 2002 4:52 pm
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Sounds like an interesting party game. But not very useful if more than one super of frames, unless you have unlimited free labor. ... From: Allen Dick I've...
Hi Karen! I know it is April 1st but indeed there is another use of whirling things around your head on a piece of string. Although I keep a couple of...
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... Hi again Mike An old washing machine needs little converting over - use the spin cycle. You can even use your regular washer if you put your uncapped...
hey, i may try that! i can find an old washer just bout anywhere. thank's 4 the plan, ill let you know how it turns out when im finished. cheers. mike. ... ...
(Edited for unecessary quoting) Hi Mike Watch for blow-outs, especially if the washer is too small to get the frames in radially - you may need a cake-cooling...
May one assume that the washing machine you use for extracting honey is the top-loading type with a vertical drum? I find it difficult to visualise the...
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... Correct assumption. Sorry, almost all washers in NZ are this type - i tend to forget that some folk have such unusual contraptions as front-loading...
Trotting a pc connection out to the beeyard makes it much more complicated than necessary. And with the wide range of frequencies, high and low filters on...
What a color organ basically does is either attach to a speaker output, or have a mic built into it. It divides the frequency spectrum into three ranges,...
I'm looking for suggestions to overcome the following problem related to trying to raise queens using the 'Jenter System'. The problem is encountered during...
I added a page to my website on a simple design of OMF. Abstract: "Conventional open mesh floors seem to be similar in that they all use a drawer type...
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Jun 3, 2002 10:34 pm
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... related ... all ... in ... around ... had ... Naturally, ... Tex Bee Guy, Sounds like everything id kosher except you did not mention the state of the eggs...
Sounds like everything id kosher except you did not mention the state of the eggs ne' 3 day old into larvae. I have found down here in Southern Africa that...
Hi Bob, What I mean by scrawny bastards is the smallest hatched larvae (after 3 days when you transfer the cups to the cell holders) that looks like it will...
try using a swarm box. make up a wooden box big enough to take three frames. shake bees from a strong colony into box until box has loads of young bees in. ...
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... make ... honey, ... What sort of temperature are you talking about? Regards, Robert Brenchley RSBrenchley@... Birmingham UK...
I cannot say the exact temperature, not that technical, just that I put the hive where it is out of direct sunlight all day. When I had the hives in full sun...
I am not sure at what altitude Mpho has his hives at, but I would estimate the mean daytime temperature is around 28 deg C in summer with a low humidity. Eddy ...
Lear, Eddy(ENL)
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Sounds resonable for average temperature, yet I am at about 1, 500 metres and I have another breeding station at 2, 300 metres up in the highlands of Lesotho ...
