Commercial Migratory Lids: How we build ours for our honey bee hives.
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In this episode, I discuss building and lid dimensions, past mistakes, and instructions of how we build our honeybee hive lids at a commercial scale. Hope this gives you some ideas for building your own!
I love that you show the problems that you have had not just the successes! It helps other beekeepers so they don't have to suffer thru the same mistakes. Thanks for all the excellent content, will be looking forward to the next video!
Thanks for following along John!
Like the way you think on the wooden wear. Like the bumper sticker also. We started wax dipping last year and love it.
Thanks for the compliment, and thanks for watching!
another good video Ashby! I am going to start buying rough cut lumber and build my equipment also
The cost is significantly less for sure! I like doing woodworking so it’s very rewarding for me.
Really enjoyed this video. It sounds like you are like me , I like doing a job one time an doing it correctly. My father taught me when I was young to do this . He told me something that always stuck in my head . He said “ people has never got time to do it correctly BUT people always has time to do it over.” That was his way of telling to stop screwing up. Lol . As I have said thank you for your information an your time for doing your video’s. THANKS
I couldnt agree more! Thanks for watching!
Nice tips Ashby 👌 👍
Pallet video going up tomorrow
I'm with you my friend. I build much of my own equipment. I am going with HDO for our migratory lids. Thanks for the info. I believe you are doing a presentation at the Buncombe County Beekeepers Association if I'm not mistaken?
I am in November!
thanks for great content
I appreciate you watching!
Like the tool magnet.
Thanks!
Looks good. I like the thicker material.
How many colonies are you running now? I build most of our equipment too
Thanks for sharing and stay well!
Went into winter a little over 300. Gonna try to expand to about 800 this year. Thanks for watching!
@@Ashby_Farms_NC that’s a big task. You will be building for awhile. Lol. Good luck!
Like it. If you didnt have the ability to wax dip, how would you do your equipment?
Paint like Bob Bonnie does
I REALLY enjoy your video's but mostly your mindset.
No reference to you but,
Machinist's say : If you can't make it right, make it shiny.!
I appreciate the support!
@@Ashby_Farms_NC I will be 80 miles N. of Austin and I think we will be close to same so am really watching you alot! Thank You and keep them coming!
Good job. I use paint up here.
Ughhhh I hate paint
The type of wood you are using and if you bud the shims together by cutting groove for the rain to don’t get in ?
Oh the rain definitely gets in. If they don’t want it they’ll usually propolize it closed
I would like to buy 10 lids from you , for nucleus , what is your price and to protect from water do you can caver with metal or aluminum foil and what is your price?
One’s I had a carpenter who made a ,,silk Cabernet ,, for me from my pawlonia trees, he forgot about that it had to kiln dry for a year and in a week time he was finished but it shrinkage was a 30%
Oh yeah!
Where did you get the staples? And what brand of staple gun uses it ?
I use Metabo brand pneumatic tools and Amazon for the staples
My old boss used to say " If you don't have time to do it right the first time then when will you have time to do it over."
Couldnt have said it better myself!
I built some bottom boards with yellow-pine lumber from Lowes, the wood was so wet you could not work with it. After the finished boards baked in the sun for a week, there was 3/8 gaps between the boards and I had to fill the cracks with window calking.. The 1x6 lumber cost me 8.00 for the build and I found a place that ships the bottom board for 21.59 w/o any flaws. The bottom boards from a local vendor was 35 and all their woodenware was stupid expensive.. Where I live, I cannot get any decent lumber and I'm looking into insulated hives such as ANEL and the overpriced Apimaye because I see the value in technology.
It was a good lesson to learn for me…..that ended up being a blessing. My equipment is not tight. It allows for extra airflow…..Bob Ross would call it a “happy accident”
What is the correct ratio? wax to paraffin?
50/50
Exterior calk on the roof crack.
Yep! Thats on my to do list
need a screw driver
For what?