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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => RAPID BEEYARD GROWTH => Topic started by: steveouk on January 20, 2008, 12:54:03 pm

Title: Bee yard photos and lay out-2008
Post by: steveouk on January 20, 2008, 12:54:03 pm: (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2082/2206696456_44227304b0_o.jpg)

I just finished making this platform for my hives. I needed it to be aesthetically pleasing for the neighbors
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Post by: asprince on January 20, 2008, 01:01:18 pm: I see we have plans to expand the number of hives? (empty space on the end)

Steve
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Post by: buzzbee on January 20, 2008, 01:44:53 pm: I'd make sure the skirting is closed tight or you may have a bee colony moving in under there! ;)
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Post by: JP on January 20, 2008, 06:06:48 pm: Here's one from my yard at the house. Harvesting from a ladder gets old, so build your stands lower to the ground, as M.B. suggests.
(http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8553/testpictures021gd2.th.jpg) (http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testpictures021gd2.jpg)
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Post by: JP on January 20, 2008, 06:21:30 pm: Here's another one.
(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6594/testpictures016ch8.th.jpg) (http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testpictures016ch8.jpg)
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Post by: johnnybigfish on January 20, 2008, 10:06:09 pm: Hey Steve!
You just cant imagine how much that looks like the back of my house!
Even with the little square cut out of the skirting...Was that to get access to the electric outlet under there?
I dont have my hives in the same place tho,..mine are obout a hundred feet out from the house in the woods.
I would post a picture to show you but my conputer broke last weekend and i lost ALL of my pictures..hundreds of them! I lost years of email addresses too...bummer.
My new hive stands are just like yours except I used 4x4's for the cross pieces that hold up the hives.
your friend,
john
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Post by: johnnybigfish on January 20, 2008, 10:08:49 pm: As a matter of fact Steve, If I remember, I'll take a pic tomorrow and post it. I have to start pics sometime,. huh!
Title: Re: Bee yard photos and lay out-2008
Post by: Cindi on January 20, 2008, 11:26:42 pm: Steve, well, I would say that you have done a great job of making this an aesthetically pleasing apiary. Good for you, your neighbours will appreciate it (we hope, eh?). Nice job.

JP, you have great looking set ups going on there too. See, all you had to do was work a little harder, and now you are showing up pictures (come on lazy guy, keep on keepin' on!!!!).

John, eeeks!!!! Now wouldn't that frost ya kabitskers!!!! All those pictures gone by the wayside, I am sorry to hear that. That is instilling a thought with me and I need to carry through on this. I have to back up the pictures on my hard drive, that is where my pictures are stored, and I would be a cryin' girl if I lost all my stuff. Those computers sure can be naughty things when they decide to take a trip to the wild side. Bad, bad, bad. Have a wonderful day. Cindi
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Post by: steveouk on January 20, 2008, 11:35:09 pm: John that was for the dish network satellite (Previous Owner). Would welcome seeing a picture.

Cindi you haven't seen anything yet. Wait till you see the flower garden thats planed to go around and in front. The wife was picking out bee friendly seeds to day at walmart. COME ON THE SUMMER !

We are actually going to camouflage the hives by putting some flower beds in so as to distract the eye away from the beehives and more of OH WOW what pretty flowers !
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Post by: JP on January 20, 2008, 11:35:49 pm: Cindi, sometimes imageshack lets me load them sometimes it doesn't, even if they say jpeg at the end of the file name. It gives me a headache.

Computer challenged, JP
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Post by: Cindi on January 20, 2008, 11:37:59 pm: JP, that is strange. I used to have problems upon problems with ImageShack, but things are now OK. Why don't you put a question in the computer tech forum? It sounds like you may need an answer here to help you out. I bet one of our forum friends could help ya. Good luck, best of a great day. Cindi
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Post by: steveouk on January 20, 2008, 11:39:20 pm: (Keeps very quite about his day job ).... Computers is only a word used 9-5 and on week days if the BAT phone isn't used....
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Post by: JP on January 20, 2008, 11:40:08 pm: Brendhan gave me some suggestions there. I will look into it.

Sincerely, JP
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Post by: annette on January 23, 2008, 12:56:55 pm: Quote from: JP on January 20, 2008, 11:35:49 pm
Cindi, sometimes imageshack lets me load them sometimes it doesn't, even if they say jpeg at the end of the file name. It gives me a headache.

Computer challenged, JP

JP

Perhaps you already figured out this problem. Dane Branage one of our forum members turned me on to "tinypic.com". It works really well and this is how I now post my photos. Haven't had problems with this website.
(http://i26.tinypic.com/2wfuus6.jpg)

This is a beekeeper up the block who took this photo.

But you can see how nice and large the photos are. You get to the website and first resize the photo to 640x480 - (it says message board size) Then you click on browse and choose one of your photos. It will pop into the space called "file"Then you press "upload". Then you come to a screen and choose the message board size. You click on it and it copies the photo. So when you come to this forum and want to post. You just paste the image and there you have it, a nice size photo that is acceptable to the forum. I always suggest you preview your post first to see if you like it.

Let me know what you think
Annette

Just realized that this photo should probably be posted on another forum. Oops!!
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Post by: Shawn on January 24, 2008, 01:23:53 am: Thats a great picture!
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Post by: Cindi on January 24, 2008, 09:44:59 am: Hey, Annette, I am going to give that program a whirl and let you know that I think of it. My pictures that I ever want to post on the forum are already resized to under 100kb, so using this program should be even more of a snap, going now to give it a try. Have an awesome day, Cindi

Wasn't that just the best picture of the bees against the blue sky and the vehicle, beautiful!!!!!
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Post by: annette on January 24, 2008, 01:41:46 pm: They are a beekeeping couple with 65 hives up the block from me. They are extremely busy with full time jobs and do the beekeeping at night and weekends. I worked with the guy my first year as a beekeeper and he showed me some stuff, but they really are way to busy to help me anymore. They bring their hives to the almond orchards every year and that photo was taken by the wife next to their durango suv.

Yes, let me know what you think of tinypic.com

Annette from still cold Placerville. Sorry for complaining but I am spoiled here with the weather.
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Post by: Cindi on January 25, 2008, 10:01:39 am: Annette, I dabbled a little with the "tiny" site. Didn't get too far, I like my system where I copy particular pictures into a folder on my laptop that I use for special pictures and then I resize them there using VSO. Then whenever I am ready to put a picture into a post I use ImageShack on the forum I just upload through ImageShack. I find this simple because ImageShack is always sitting right in the forum when I want to use that program. Seems to me that if I wanted to use the "tiny" program I would have to activate it, upload to it and then paste. Seems like an extra step, unless I am missing out something simple here. Have an awesome day. Cindi
Title: Re: Bee yard photos and lay out-2008
Post by: bassman1977 on March 03, 2008, 05:41:10 pm: One thing I have been meaning to do, is post some pics of my apiary. I'll update it again at the end of summer when I have my new apiary location finished (it's about 75 yards from the current location) and my other hives established. The new location is shown here. I have some small trees to cut first but no biggie. I have a pic of the current apiary location and also one of a busy Italian hive (the largest of my hives). These were all taken today (March 3).

Enjoy.

Bassman's Emerald Apiary (http://img178.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img178/4853/1204579492wjw.smil)
Title: Re: Bee yard photos and lay out-2008
Post by: annette on March 03, 2008, 06:03:57 pm: I enjoyed those photos and how the camera moves in like that. That was cool??
Healthy looking hive also.

Thanks for sharing
Annette
Title: Re: Bee yard photos and lay out-2008
Post by: bassman1977 on March 03, 2008, 06:52:58 pm: Thanks. That camera fade I didn't really want. It's part of Image Shack's slide show set up. I bet for some other things it would be really neat.
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Post by: Cindi on March 04, 2008, 12:10:26 am: Bassman1977. I liked that little slide show, I thought the fading in and out was cool too. Very nice layout of the apiary, well done, have a great and wonderfully beautiful day, Cindi
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Post by: Shawn on April 13, 2008, 06:51:47 pm: This is my first hive. The area around it is dirt for now until I can get the clover planted.

(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7518/dscf5291lx5.th.jpg) (http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf5291lx5.jpg)
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Post by: topbarslo on May 23, 2008, 02:28:11 pm: My 7 hives.

2 Frame hives ( red and blue covers ) and 5 top bar hives.

(http://picofarm.org/beeyard2008/mybeeyard.jpg)

(http://picofarm.org/beeyard2008/mybeeyard1.jpg)
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Post by: Keith13 on May 23, 2008, 03:36:40 pm: your hives are awesome I would have had no idea what those were if you hadn't said nice layout of your garden as well
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Post by: _Brenda_ on May 23, 2008, 04:00:58 pm: My little start up hive. :-D

(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/ladypcer/bees001.jpg)
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Post by: topbarslo on May 23, 2008, 05:05:53 pm: Quote from: keith13 on May 23, 2008, 03:36:40 pm
your hives are awesome I would have had no idea what those were if you hadn't said nice layout of your garden as well

Garden is far from finished ;) but thanks for nice comments.
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Post by: johnnybigfish on May 23, 2008, 07:42:12 pm: Topbarslo. nICE pics!
You have lots of room to work too!
It sort of looks like a picnic grounds with the hives with the tops on them :)
What are the yellow wrappers on the bottom of the trees, to protect from your weedeater?
Also, what are the smaller boxes near some of the hives, Package bees?
Anyways, real nice! It looks like youre doing alot of work there...Must be a new place, huh?

your friend,
john
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Post by: johnnybigfish on May 23, 2008, 07:47:18 pm: Theres nothing like a nice new white bee hive, huh Doublebee?
In a month or less I bet you're gonna have another one!
Tell us about the lattice. Whats fixing to be growing on it?
And, I spy a little red house next to the wall on the left of the pic. Is that a big birdhouse?

your friend,
john
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Post by: pdmattox on May 23, 2008, 08:15:04 pm: Update: 2008
Over 200 hives 90% are on clipped 4 way pallets.

Here are some that were in the orange grove.

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Here is the biggest yard with 88 hives in it.

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Weather permiting I will get pics of the other yards tomarrow. I'm getting ready to pull all the hives out of the melon fields and distribute them to all the outyards.
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Post by: _Brenda_ on May 23, 2008, 08:15:27 pm: Quote from: johnnybigfish on May 23, 2008, 07:47:18 pm
Theres nothing like a nice new white bee hive, huh Doublebee?
In a month or less I bet you're gonna have another one!
Tell us about the lattice. Whats fixing to be growing on it?
And, I spy a little red house next to the wall on the left of the pic. Is that a big birdhouse?

your friend,
john

Yeah, I know it won't stay crisp white for long. :-D
I'd like to have another hive, but would probably put it at our mini farm.
I have to be careful not to have too much hive activity here at home.
Don't want neighbors complaining.
The lattice is just there to help hide the hive from the side street. I'd like to put some type of vine on it, maybe an autumn clematis?
Little red house is a decorative bird house. It's not functional, and I'm afraid some bees may decide to make a home there. I may have to move it somewhere else. :-\ I got to go, the cat's trying to help me type. :roll:
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Post by: JP on May 23, 2008, 08:48:53 pm: Great set-up! You must be knee deep in orange blossom honey.

...JP
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Post by: Keith13 on May 23, 2008, 10:19:15 pm: my bee yard

(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2527/523001xl1.th.jpg) (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=523001xl1.jpg)

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Post by: Cindi on May 24, 2008, 10:32:39 am: Topbarslo, Double Bee and Keith, so nice to see pictures of what people are up to with their colonies, you all have some pretty nice set ups going on there, beauties. Have the best of a wonderfully great and beautiful day, Cindi
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Post by: topbarslo on May 24, 2008, 12:15:24 pm: Quote from: johnnybigfish on May 23, 2008, 07:42:12 pm
Topbarslo. nICE pics!
You have lots of room to work too!
It sort of looks like a picnic grounds with the hives with the tops on them :)
What are the yellow wrappers on the bottom of the trees, to protect from your weedeater?
Also, what are the smaller boxes near some of the hives, Package bees?
Anyways, real nice! It looks like youre doing alot of work there...Must be a new place, huh?

your friend,
john

Yea pretty big garden. I took land from wheat and corn field. I will start with some bee friendly agriculture next year on the whole field.

Yellow wrappers around trees are because of rabbits and my three cats that like to play with anything wood that stands out ;)

Those boxes were packages of bees I installed into top bar hives. Left it there for one day so that all bees find their new home. Next day all were empty and I removed those.

Yep new place. Like I said I took some land from corn and wheat for my bees :) and now I am planting all kinds of flowers, herbs and vegetables there.
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Post by: mgmoore7 on May 27, 2008, 10:45:21 am: Dallas

Looking good. I see you got the flatbed on your truck.
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Post by: Ross on May 27, 2008, 12:07:18 pm: My home yard from a couple of years ago. It's almost empty this week as I moved a bunch of hives to some vetch this weekend.

(http://www.myoldtools.com/Bees/apairy.jpg)
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Post by: pdmattox on May 27, 2008, 12:44:21 pm: JP, not very much orange blossom this year. :( Matt, I can not imagine not having the flatbed now, it makes life a lot easier. How much honey did you guys pull in so far this year?
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Post by: mgmoore7 on May 27, 2008, 01:00:33 pm: I got 6 gallons so far but expect that much or more again by the end of June. I could taste the orange in some of it. I got 4 gallons of very nice table quality wildflower honey and 2 gallons of some darker honey but it is still pretty good.

I had 3 hives, going into the flow. My best one swarmed about 6 weeks ago. Captured the swarm but that slowed down the honey production. That swarm though has just about filled a super now.

I now 4 hives and am considering some expansion but I need to start finding some place to keep them.
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Post by: wvbelcher on May 27, 2008, 11:12:10 pm: Nice setup!
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Post by: JP on May 28, 2008, 12:04:51 am: This is my main beeyard. : (http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/5152/cimg2324yg7.th.jpg) (http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg2324yg7.jpg)

(http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/1848/cimg2331bu3.th.jpg) (http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg2331bu3.jpg)

(http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8851/cimg2335qf6.th.jpg) (http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg2335qf6.jpg)

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...JP
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Post by: Cindi on May 29, 2008, 10:07:36 am: Ross, that is a beautiful beeyard, shades of blue are my favourite and those different shades look very nice, wow!!!

JP, nice yard too, you sure are a gathering man eh? No wonder you are the Swarm King, hee, hee. Have we talked about this before? What are the pictures of the trees and the hangy down white flowery things? I think this has been talked about, but can't pull it from those cobwebs of my mind. Beautiful day in this groovy life, lovin' and livin' every moment. Cindi
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Post by: JP on May 29, 2008, 11:09:27 am: Quote from: Cindi on May 29, 2008, 10:07:36 am
Ross, that is a beautiful beeyard, shades of blue are my favourite and those different shades look very nice, wow!!!

JP, nice yard too, you sure are a gathering man eh? No wonder you are the Swarm King, hee, hee. Have we talked about this before? What are the pictures of the trees and the hangy down white flowery things? I think this has been talked about, but can't pull it from those cobwebs of my mind. Beautiful day in this groovy life, lovin' and livin' every moment. Cindi

Chinese Tallow and either privet or honeysuckle.

...JP
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Post by: Cindi on May 29, 2008, 11:12:59 am: JP, oh yea, now I remember, I think it was Chinese Tallow, I recall that topic being discussed cause I thought it was such a weird, weird name, it reminded me of a candle for some reason or another, strange eh? Off to get kids to school, have a beautiful and wonderful day, life is good!!! Cindi
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Post by: JP on May 29, 2008, 11:17:58 am: Quote from: Cindi on May 29, 2008, 11:12:59 am
JP, oh yea, now I remember, I think it was Chinese Tallow, I recall that topic being discussed cause I thought it was such a weird, weird name, it reminded me of a candle for some reason or another, strange eh? Off to get kids to school, have a beautiful and wonderful day, life is good!!! Cindi

Some call them popcorn trees or china ball trees.

...JP
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Post by: MustbeeNuts on May 29, 2008, 06:37:55 pm: Its growing on me!

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Post by: Cindi on May 30, 2008, 09:51:42 am: MustbeNuts. Beautiful pictures of your apiary. I must ask, is that an inner cover above the two boxes in the middle hives? Why? I am curious. Beautiful day loving this great life we live. Cindi
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Post by: MustbeeNuts on May 30, 2008, 10:06:04 am: Quote from: Cindi on May 30, 2008, 09:51:42 am
MustbeNuts. Beautiful pictures of your apiary. I must ask, is that an inner cover above the two boxes in the middle hives? Why? I am curious. Beautiful day loving this great life we live. Cindi

Yes it is, I have my jar feeder inside sitting over the hole in that cover, and then an empty super above it. Then the top. The other's are the same way, I just painted the edge of the covers on them.
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Post by: rdy-b on June 09, 2008, 07:39:28 pm: this is my best producing yard so far in 08 (http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5593/1000167zg7.th.jpg) (http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000167zg7.jpg) (http://img444.imageshack. this is my new 60 frame extractor [URL=http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000170wl6.jpg][IMG]http://img401.imageshack. [URL=http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000169ir8.jpg][IMG]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5725/1000169ir8.th.jpg) (http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000166cs2.jpg) LIFE IS GOOD 8-)RDY-B [IMG]http://img444.imageshack. (http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000166cs2.jpg)
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Post by: rdy-b on June 09, 2008, 08:13:23 pm: (http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5725/1000169ir8.th.jpg) (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000169ir8.jpg) [IMG]http://img401.imageshack. new extractor also should be a life saver-RDY-B (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000170wl6.jpg)
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Post by: Cindi on June 12, 2008, 10:29:30 am: RDY-B, beautiful pic of your beehives, and holy smoking cadoodalhoppers!!! Look at your new extractor, I am in envy, hee, hee, have that most beautiful, wonderful day, lovin' life. Cindi