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Winter Beekeeping Activities Equipment and Supplies You Can Build Yourself Dan O’Callaghan

Winter Beekeeping Activities Equipment and Supplies You Can Build 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!

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Winter Beekeeping Activities Equipment and Supplies You Can Build Yourself Dan O’Callaghan

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  1. Winter Beekeeping ActivitiesEquipment and SuppliesYou CanBuild YourselfDan O’Callaghan

  2. Why Build/Make it Yourself? • Save $$$ • Customize – “My Way” • Experiment, what if… • Recycle stuff • Personal Satisfaction

  3. 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 • ???

  4. Where to Find Ideas and Plans? • http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/ • http://beehivejournal.blogspot.com/2009/01/build-it-yourself.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…

  5. Jigs • Box Joint – Table Saw or Router Table Jig

  6. Jigs • Box Joint – Router Jig

  7. Jigs • Hand-Hold Jig (http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/handhold-jig/)

  8. 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”

  9. Jigs • Foundation wiring board(http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/foundation-form-board/)

  10. Woodenware • Hive Boxes – Brood and Super(http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/10-frame-langstroth-barry-birkey/)

  11. Woodenware • Bottom Boards http://www.tc.umn.edu/~reute001/Plans.html (http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/ipm-screened-bottom-board/)

  12. Woodenware • Inner Covers http://www.tc.umn.edu/~reute001/Plans.html http://www.honeyrunapiaries.com/beekeeping/plans/

  13. Woodenware 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. • Frames http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/dadant-type-frames/

  14. Woodenware • Nucleus Hives

  15. Woodenware • Top Bar Hives http://wasatchwarre.wordpress.com/diy-beehive-plans/

  16. Woodenware • Observation Hives http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/3-frame-observation-hive-2/

  17. Beekeeping Tools • Solar Wax Melter http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/solar-wax-melter/

  18. Beekeeping Tools • Bee Vac http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/bee-vac/

  19. Beekeeping Tools • Extractor http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/4-frame-honey-extractor-2/

  20. Beekeeping Tools • Uncapping tank http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/honey-comb-uncapping-tank/

  21. Beekeeping Tools • Bottling Bucket • Food-Grade Bucket/Lid - $3 • Honey gate - $8

  22. Beekeeping Tools • Colony extraction frames • Warming Box

  23. Beekeeping Tools • Honey House (…but that’s a topic for another day)

  24. …and LOTS More! The End(really just the beginning!) Dan O’Callaghan

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