These two 3 frame nucs and five cedar hives are the last of the orders from months ago. I can only say THANK YOU for all your patience. Working a full time job and building hives on the side does go slow. We were not quite prepared for the volume of orders! Someone asked me how many hives I built this year and I really have not counted! I am guessing at least two dozen but that might be short as well.
At any rate we have five cedar hives and one donor hive that must be finished by 9/9/23…yes, that is in 4 days. Fortunately the metal roof is the only thing left to do. I will try to post an update once they are done. I am having the metal shop make a few of the metal roofs so I am very curious what they will look like.
The three frame nuc boxes were a special request…actually doing some trading for them. While they were supposed to use scrap wood, I did cheat and picked up a 1×12 because I did not have time to join up a bunch of 1x4s for them. The cedar handles/supports should help it hold up longer.
We are planning to take a break from building hives for a few weeks….well we SAY that. I have about 15-20 hives that I need to finish for my bees. There are also two cottonwood long hives that are not quite done and I need to make some more lids for my bees. Oh and I only have about 20 frames ready right now. Need to set aside some time to build a few things for my bees soon.
Right now I am drawing up plans to rebuild my deer stand that is about 20 years old. It will be a 6×8 with big windows so I can shoot my bow out of it. I just love the challenge of bowhunting far more than a crossbow or a rifle. However, when gun season rolls around I am seriously thinking about taking ONLY a pistol…have a .44 in mind for that job but we will see.
Other future ideas….I still need to build a desk! My particle board desk is about 30 years old and I work from it daily. Seriously thinking of a stand/sit mount and make the top. Also have some dry live oak and post oak and I really want to make a long lang with it. Yes, it will be really heavy but talk about unique!!!
