Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS => Topic started by: Anonymous on May 23, 2005, 04:04:52 pm
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Are there any links here for building your own bee vac using a gas leaf blower/vac? I'm pretty handy and, well, er, cheap too :roll: :lol:
I saw in the search feature that there are plenty made with electric shop vacs, but I just happen to have an "extra" leaf blower/vac.
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I edited this to include "gas leaf blower" in the subject in the hopes that maybe I'd get a response...
Anybody?
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I would guess that you could build it like any other beevac and rig up a way to attach the blower/vac.
The vac I built has the vacume motor on a removable back panel. I have a motor I took out of a floor vacume for 110 V useage. And I took a heater/AC blower out of a car and rigged it to use 12 V in remote locations.
some picture of it are here.
http://beemaster.com/beebbs/viewtopic.php?t=1671
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Thanks, Jerry. I saw that thread in my searches, but didn't realize you had made a 12V version. Man, that dude is HEAVY DUTY. I think I might shoot for something a little smaller. :roll:
Actually, I have some leftover bee package boxes that I was thinking of using somehow for the inner cage. They held 3 lb packages when I bought the bees; would they hold much of a swarm or would I need several cages?
Thanks!
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I never ordered packages so don't know how big they are. If they are about the size of a five gallon bucket that would probably do fine.