Winter Beekeeping Activities Equipment and Supplies You Can Build Yourself Dan O’Callaghan
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Winter Beekeeping ActivitiesEquipment and Supplies
You CanBuild Yourself
Dan O’Callaghan
Why Build/Make it Yourself?
•Save $$$• Customize – “My Way”• Experiment, what if…• Recycle stuff• Personal Satisfaction
What Can You Make/Build?
• Just about Anything!• Woodenware – boxes, nucs, frames, covers• Jigs to help you make/assemble equipment• Specialized stuff- bee vac, wax melter, pollen
traps, escape boards, queen rearing….• Extraction/Bottling equipment• ???
Where to Find Ideas and Plans?• http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/• http://beehivejournal.blogspot.com/2009/01/build-it-y
ourself.html• http://wasatchwarre.wordpress.com/diy-beehive-plans
/• http://www.tc.umn.edu/~reute001/Plans.html• http://cheapbeekeeping.wordpress.com/• http://www.honeyrunapiaries.com/beekeeping/plans/• YouTube, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Dogpile…
Jigs
• Box Joint – Table Saw or Router Table Jig
Jigs
• Box Joint – Router Jig
Jigs
• Hand-Hold Jig (http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/handhold-jig/)
Jigs
• Frame Assembly Jig (http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/10-frame-assembly-jig/)
NOTE: For Kelley slotted top bar frames, reduce length specified in plan by 3/8”
Jigs
• Foundation wiring board(http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/foundation-form-board/)
Woodenware
• Hive Boxes – Brood and Super(http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/10-frame-langstroth-barry-birkey/)
Woodenware• Bottom Boards
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~reute001/Plans.html
(http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/ipm-screened-bottom-board/)
Woodenware• Inner Covers
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~reute001/Plans.html
http://www.honeyrunapiaries.com/beekeeping/plans/
Woodenware• Frames
http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/dadant-type-frames/
LOTS of milling and shaping required. Unless you have lots of time and really like a challenge, more cost effective to buy frames from the bee supply vendors.
Woodenware• Nucleus Hives
Woodenware• Top Bar Hives
http://wasatchwarre.wordpress.com/diy-beehive-plans/
Woodenware• Observation Hives
http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/3-frame-observation-hive-2/
Beekeeping Tools• Solar Wax Melter
http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/solar-wax-melter/
Beekeeping Tools• Bee Vac
http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/bee-vac/
Beekeeping Tools• Extractor
http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/4-frame-honey-extractor-2/
Beekeeping Tools• Uncapping tank
http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/honey-comb-uncapping-tank/
Beekeeping Tools• Bottling Bucket– Food-Grade Bucket/Lid - $3– Honey gate - $8
Beekeeping Tools• Colony extraction frames
• Warming Box
Beekeeping Tools• Honey House
(…but that’s a topic for another day)
…and LOTS More!
The End(really just the beginning!)
Dan O’Callaghan