Commercial 2-way Pallets: How we build our honey bee hive bottom boards.
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2023
- In this video, I show the dimensions of how we set up and build our custom 2-way pallet bottom boards (bases) for our honey bee hives. When you become a commercial beekeeper you have to think about efficiency in both servicing and moving the hives around. Pallets are the best design for this application.
Doing a great job Ashby
Thanks!
I love that you're thinking of the future as well as bee space and convenience with what you're building. That extra time up front should save a lot of time in the long run. We love Bailey's Bee Supply as well.
Hopefully so! David is the best!
Bailey's are good people but my go to is Miller bee supply. Do a lot of business with them, they are also good folks to deal with. Thanks for the video, keep them coming!
Haven’t been over there yet. Just gotta find time!
All.of my bottom boards are built with 3/8 gap. Works great! No mice
Yes! I don’t know why it’s not the industry standard!?!?
Excelent! Thanks for the info!
You bet!
Holler out bee keeper's 🐝 hope it helps get you out there. Great video
Thanks!
There a lot good content creator's on UA-cam never found. The main problem is that most people wacth a video and don't hit the like button. Sadly I have done that also. So now I like the video frist thing if I know the creator so I don't forget. It might be a good plug for you frist thing to remind people to like your content.
The likes is what will get you out there. It will happen just keep making those videos.
This is cool .No w clips. All hot dipped too .Kel
Thanks!
Ashby. Hey man I live in Rougemont. I am wanting to move to a sideliner operation and hopefully commercial down the road. If you ever get the time I would love to check out your setup and ask some questions.
Absolutely. Give me a shout sometime. Pretty swamped right now, so a phone call is easiest. 336.693.4392
What species of wood are you using for all your equipment?
NC Pine
@@Ashby_Farms_NC Cool, thank you. I was your 1k sub congrats on your milestone.
@@Zarealy Thanks man! I appreciate it! Thanks for following along!
from where i can get 3/8 strips ?
I cut them myself
What machine do you use to make the langstroth frames themselves, not the jig to put them together
I buy frames by the pallets 5,000 at a time
Ever use advantech before you started the wax dipping?
I haven’t. From the beginning I thought I had to pick one route or the other. Solid wood and wax dipping does require more labor/initial input. But I felt like that was the best decision for making equipment last for decades.
@@Ashby_Farms_NC Good move, I did a bunch of advantech to try after everyone said it was grea for bottoms and tops. After 3 yrs it all grew mushrooms. Only concrete form board for me now
Bees and equipment are so cheap coming out of almonds. We are so envious here in Canada that we can't buy trailer loads and cross the border. Buy, split, sell, and you pretty much get them Cali bees free with a little sweat equity. I started out building my equipment myself, but as the volume I needed grew faster than I could keep up,(still working another job)I had to purchase pre built. I say this because I was sure glad I used the same dimensions on my own equipment that I manufacturered as the commercial guys normally would, so everything was interchangeable. I know a dollar saved is a dollar earned, but the money in a bee business comes from the volume of bees that you have producing, not the money you save on equipment. The model I just suggested buying from Cali, buy/split/sell is the fastest way to grow and get a return on your investment and turn a profit, I suggest you have the knowledge to keep bees first. It's painfully slow growing bees out and your skill level is superior to the hive count that you currently have, it takes years for the two items mentioned to come in line. I'm starting season 5 this spring with 300 colonies and 80 plus nucs, I have a short season which doesn't allow much growth, 60% get split and if I take more than 3 brood frames at the split I lose my honey crop because I'm still drawing comb(new beekeepers don't have any extra comb). I wish I could get Cali bees, I'd buy 1000 and work them. No money in box building your own equipment. Have a good season this summer, I hope the boxes are heavy.
So a few things: growing out your own operation allows you the time to gain the experiences needed to manage 800+ colonies, as well as meeting the people you need to meet. Buying cheap equipment will get you started, but not weather the tests of time. You can either do it right in the beginning, or take the time to do it a second time in the future. Anybody can buy a lot of equipment. Not many can actually manage it properly. I’m expanding to 800 this year, while being a dad, son, husband, and working a day job. This is the side of the bee business you can’t teach
@Ashby Farms NC takes a lot of infrastructure to keep 800 colonies. Truck, trailer, loader, syrup pumps, pallet jack, hot room, honey house, extraction line, drums, honey pumps, a prescription for antibiotics, etc keeping bees are the easy part, dropping a quarter million or more on the infrastructure and making the payments is the hard part in this business.
Cool my pallets look like shit ..I'm going to be selling some real estate and up grading .hopefully 2000 bee hives .So we are going to be talking .But I like to do it in person .That means I have a drive to make .. I'm going to need bottom board vents because I take them to the California desert .for varna control and desert blossom honey to make my mead .Ill show up with some of my honey wine .Kel
Sounds good call me 336.693.4392
Do you sell pallets? I need about 50.
I don’t
@@Ashby_Farms_NC do you make your ow.n clips?