Assembled Cedar £24.02
Assembled Red Deal £18.55
Assembled Cedar £41.52
Assembled Red Deal £27.89
Cedar £33.96
Assembled Cedar £31.96
Assembled Red Deal £22.21
Assembled Cedar £39.97
Assembled Red Deal £27.50
Cedar £30.22
Assembled Cedar £60.65
Assembled Red Deal £47.45
Assembled Cedar £24.22
Assembled Red Deal £17.86
Cedar £22.96
Assembled Cedar £52.87
Assembled Red Deal £34.54
Cedar £42.25
Framed Queen Excluders suitable for both top and bottom bee space. £16.78
Facilitates administration of 'Apiguard' and can be used as a Clearer Board with the supplied Porter Bee Escapes. £17.23
Can also be used as a Clearer Board with the supplied Porter Bee Escapes. £12.55
Transparent alternative to the Crown Board. Allows viewing bees with minimal disruption to the colony. £17.21
Assembled Cedar £17.96
Assembled Red Deal £16.88
Metal Runners 94p per pair
£2.54
Hi. Answering a few queries I’ve had about fitting metalwork to National Hive Brood Boxes and Supers here’s a quick and simple guide to correctly fitting metal rails to the woodwork. The image is more or less self explanatory but the essence of the procedure is to turn the brood/super upside down and place some sized bits of timber (10mm for bottom bee space and 18mm for top bee space) under the metal runner to give the correct gap. The metal runner just rests on top of the wooden spacers while you pin it into place. Once done you are guaranteed the correct chosen bee space.
Bee Space Spacers
Time to squeeze in an allotment update…
Spring is finally here in the Peak District so here’s a photo (panorama of four photos stitched together) of where I’m currently up to.
Lots of red onions because my partner Adriana is from Peru and they’re used widely in Peruvian cooking. A new area for soft fruit (Blackcurrants, more Rhubarb, Autumn and Summer Raspberries, Redcurrants, various varieties of Gooseberries and more…) replacing a nettle patch that discouraged the family from venturing down to do some weeding/fettling.
Prior to this year the plot had been one area with treaded down paths every 4 feet or so and nettles all round. I was given some weatherproof boards back end of last year and slowly started making up the raised beds in the picture.
On the far right there’s one high raised bed which will be followed by three more of which two will be given to the kids to grow what they will and two will be used for root veg or spuds.
Amor Mio!
The panorama is perhaps a future bees eye view as I’ve taken the photos from where I’m planning on putting my two Apis Mellifera Mellifera colonies that I have coming in a few weeks.
I was wondering about the easiest way to make some 18mm spacers to fit the rails on my top bee space boxes when a simple answer came to me: frame top bars!
They’re just the right size (obviously) to allow you to lie two across the box and rest the rails on top, they fit (again obviously) in the gaps in castellated spacers, and the ends are 18mm high if you put them on the bench with the lugs up, and 9mm with the lugs down.
Incidentally the captions on your photo don’t agree with the text – the captions say 8mm, but the text (and the writing on the spacers) says 10mm. Either way, if my logic is correct the thickness of a frame lug is guaranteed to be right for bottom bee space, where you need the tops of the frames flush with the top of the box.
Hi, im looking at changing my broods boxes to 14×12, and was wondering if you do any discount on 10 flat pack red deal ?