I have one I just made where I put the head on the outside.
I'll post a video on U tube when I have bees in it.
I have one I just made where I put the head on the outside.
I'll post a video on U tube when I have bees in it.
This one has a 2010 mated queen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYhM2-mhDAo
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Nice Nuc.
Cheapest I have seen is a banana box with polystyrene blocks to hold the frames up.
The standard banana box size is just perfect for the Zander frames. Perfect is you have bees in a bee house.
I take it you make the lid out of something porous - so the bees don't sweat in winter / prevent mildew & mold - or do you just lay an old tea towel between the lid and the frame tops?
The lid is made out of the same stuff. There is a 50 mm gap between the top of the frames and the underside of the lid which I intend to fill with fondant and/or insulation.
Polyhives don't breathe either and bees seem to overwinter fine in them.
I overwintered several nucs in these last winter although I have them primarily for summer use.
In winter I tape polystyrene to the front back and top and there is polystyrene inside the two pieces which hold the frames up.
I have 14 nucs in these contraptions at the moment, 7 with mated queens and 7 still with virgins.
They have an internal sliding correx frame so they work as anything from a 2 frame mating nuc to a 7 frame nuc ready to be transferred to a full size brood box.
I use Thorne seconds cedar nationals for my brood boxes but I cannot understand for the life of me why people pay up to £40 for a nuc box when you can make one for 50p.
That was *so* good, thanks Jon! You might have heard my chuckling on the breeze coming in from the Netherlands.
Do you get the full effect from a half Jim Nicholson?
Reminds me - in some perverted backwards way - of this classic:
Jon - that's pure inspiration!!!
Hi Jon
Been following your burgeoning Bee Media Tart career with interest. Nice to see Dromore giving you a good write-up too:
http://tinyurl.com/bnml3e2
The scroll bar on the left suggests that there are more pictures below the side-on view, but it wont scroll for me. Are there more?
So, that lid. Presumably you cut a piece to cover the 18x10 inch surface with enough for a rim of an inch or so (maybe even a couple of cm), make the freeing cuts, use your pizza cutter to crease just beyond the 18x10, fold and tape?
Given that I have some vigorous stocks at the moment maybe I need a few of these in the garage ready for next spring. For those worried about the aesthetic niceties, a quick swipe with a roller brush would make them prettier (unless of course there was an image on the board worth leaving - could always add a new one of course).
cheers
Gavin
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