Hello Cindi! Bear protection or ??
Rob
Is that colored electric fence or rope?
I see the solar fencer.How does that work for you? Ken
This is one of my bee yards set up for spring feeding.
dealhound, welcome to the site, nice pic with the hives in the snow, you should go to the GREETINGS/TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF Forum and tell us a little about yourself..
then the pictures that you post will be much larger for the forum members to look at and this is good.
If you take the time to resize photos you can post 'full size' .jpgs that are quite quick to load. The problem is many people upload their photos to photo sites without resizing them at all.
Here is my "portable" beeyard :-D
(http://robo.hydroville.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=314&g2_serialNumber=1)
Can you describe the upper entrances and the size of the bed of the trailer?
Keith
My bee yard is on my deck right behind my sunporch:Nice looking hives, but how can you work them without interfering in their flight paths? I would think it might be better to face the hive entrances out from the center of the deck.
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Linda T in Atlanta
Nice looking hives, but how can you work them without interfering in their flight paths? I would think it might be better to face the hive entrances out from the center of the deck.
Dane, very nice areal picture. Microsoft Virtual Earth, eh? Tell us about it. I have looked at my place on Google Earth, but the pictures were about 2 years outdated. We have had massive property changes in the past two years and I wish Google would update. Best of this beautiful day. Cindi
Thanks for posting the image of the mid entrances. I have seen them in beeculture and was wondering how they worked.
Keith
The mid-entrance as I like to call it, was based off of this design with some improvements from myself.
http://robo.hydroville.com/v12/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,21/ (http://robo.hydroville.com/v12/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,21/)
They are in the winter position in the photo, with no honey supers in place. During the summer, the honey supers are placed on top of the entrance. It is basically a 3" box within a box. There is 3/8" clearance all around the outside that allows the bees to pass from the brood area to the honey storage area, but with the middle blocked off, it keeps the queen down in the brood section. Instead of just boxing off the center area, I wanted to make it a dual purpose fixture that could be used year round. So I put a piece of 1/4" or 1/2" hardware cloth on the bottom so that feeder candy could be placed in the box during the winter for feeding. To prevent the bees from building comb in that area in the summer, two removable 1/4" sheets are used to block the area off. One sits on top of the hardware cloth, and the other on the top of the inner box. Here are some drawings that hopefully give you a better idea of it. If I ever get the time to finish revamping my new website and get it online, it will have the detailed plans to all my custom stuff. Including my poor-man's plastic barrel TBH.
(http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/2451/midentrancetk3.th.jpg) (http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=midentrancetk3.jpg)(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/852/midentranceexplodedww6.th.jpg) (http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=midentranceexplodedww6.jpg)
My bee yard is right there (where the bee is pointing). A fenced in, decked area with four hives (so far) on benches.
(http://i13.tinypic.com/2aiq0px.jpg)
I'll add some more shots of the layout next time I'm out there with the camera.
Moonshae, how do the milk crates work for hive stands?
Dane, again said, very nice set up. Now that is one honking big deck!!!! How large is it anyways? Define the dimension, I am curious. Your cat looks like its lovin' life, eh?Thanks again Cindi :)
Moonshae ~> are your bees using the water source you provided? There's a few threads (as I vaguely recall) on water sourcing.
Curious to know if my water source is well located. Both my neighbors have pools, so I'd like them to have a more desirable alternative.
Dane, what on earth!!!! What is with the equation? Are you like some kind of techy mathmetician (LOL, spelling?). I don't do equations. Regardless, sounds cool.lol ~ yes I am (B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering working in Info Tech). That equation is for the area of a hexagon, which can be determined knowing any side's length (since they're all equal).
OK guys, I have a digital camera coming this week from Sony and I am going to post some photo's. Can't wait. Hope I can figure it all out (meaning the camera, posting etc.)
Annette
Placerville
My one little hive:
(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/3917/img1208wk8.th.jpg) (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1208wk8.jpg)
Dr/B, with two or three sunflowers surely your bees can harvest any tons of nectar.
Brings at my mind Gulliver and the giants, Lilliput and other tales.... :)
You guys do know that a booming hive during a flow could be ten boxes tall right?
That's a great looking outfit. Do the bees ever have any down time in the Caribean or just go all year long?
DennisB
Here is my "portable" beeyard :-D
(http://robo.hydroville.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=314&g2_serialNumber=1)
PS - the very very top with the round holes in it... what is that?
On the pic on the right, the closest hive: what's on the front of the bottom super, just above the entrance?
I can't figure out how to do individual pictures but if you follow the link to photo bucket you can find my hives on a couple of the pages.
http://s679.photobucket.com/albums/vv153/natalierosepeterson/?start=340 (http://s679.photobucket.com/albums/vv153/natalierosepeterson/?start=340)
I can't figure out how to do individual pictures but if you follow the link to photo bucket you can find my hives on a couple of the pages.
http://s679.photobucket.com/albums/vv153/natalierosepeterson/?start=340 (http://s679.photobucket.com/albums/vv153/natalierosepeterson/?start=340)
HAB, nice set up, is the tarp to keep down the grass? Looks really good. Have that beautiful day, with health. Cindi
Is that John Deere Green? TonyIt started out as Asparagus Green or something like that and when we built our chicken coop we mixed a couple gallon cans with a 5 gallon bucket and the color you see is what we ended up with.