Jon

Blimey Jon, you must be built like Charles Atlas moving those tyres every time

I've seen him lance axles straight through those double-tyre hives, flip 'em over, and with one command get Luna the labrador to jump into a harness and pull him home on the impromptu chariot! Some guy that Jon.

Looks like the ability to use cast-offs to fashion new styles of hive was inherited after all. I think I prefer da's Bucket Hive to Jon's correx ones.

Luckily there was a heap of types right beside the apiary.
I'll probably replace them with a strategic brick the next time.
The set up was relatively cheap.
I made the floors from scrap wood and the roofs are correx.
The crown boards are about £3 each from a sheet of B&Q plywood.
The Swienty brood boxes are about £20 each from C Wynn Jones.
These are the old style ones embossed with Murray's Denrosa logo.
This is an apiary set up just for honey production and I will try not to tinker taking bees for filling apideas.
It's 40 miles away from where I live so that should act as a deterrent.
A couple of the nucs had brood over the 6 frames so a second brood box will be needed within a couple of weeks.
The forage in the area looks pretty good so I would hope to get 2 or 3 supers of honey from these, weather permitting.

Originally Posted by Jon

Luckily there was a heap of types right beside the apiary.
I'll probably replace them with a strategic brick the next time.
The set up was relatively cheap.
I made the floors from scrap wood and the roofs are correx.
The crown boards are about £3 each from a sheet of B&Q plywood.
The Swienty brood boxes are about £20 each from C Wynn Jones.
These are the old style ones embossed with Murray's Denrosa logo.
This is an apiary set up just for honey production and I will try not to tinker taking bees for filling apideas.
It's 40 miles away from where I live so that should act as a deterrent.
A couple of the nucs had brood over the 6 frames so a second brood box will be needed within a couple of weeks.
The forage in the area looks pretty good so I would hope to get 2 or 3 supers of honey from these, weather permitting.

I'm liking the thriftyness, especially the cortex roofs, given of work Jon!

The tyres might be heavy but at least the roof is light to lift off!
Those correx roofs last for years. The plastic does not seem to degrade much or get brittle.

Looks like away out in the country, should make a great location with loads of space for all those mating nucs you have, and I like you hive stands !

Not a great site for mating. Too many mongrel colonies in the area. I have another one sussed out in the fivemiletown mountains where a friend has 10 acres at 600 feet. That site is remote.

I'd say thats a bit far away for a strole on a bike. I've been getting my glass/wood single frame nuc boxes out of storage, and guess what - one has mouse damage where the wee critter tried to get in via the queen cell hole by chewing the wooden top

My mate lives in the next street and he has work down there. He travels down nearly every week so I should be able to manage an isolated site. 1 hr 15 min. travel time.

love that log hive, wouldn't like to try and run it though,

>wouldn't like to try and run it though
He just lets it swarm!

Good plan with the tyres, been some fly tipping nearby, might just grab a couple as quick and easy hive stands.