Bee Equipment Essentials

by Ed Simon, Lawrence John Connor (Editor)

This How-to-do-it approach to building bee equipment provides a clear plan to make your own bee equipment. Even if you never build bee equipment, this book will help you understand how to assemble and use many useful beekeeping tools. Build your own hive stands, bottom boards, entrance reducers, hive bodies, inner covers, telescoping covers and feeders. Build a variety of nucleus hives. Or build your own top bar hive. Build frames and bars for queen production, and make a Cloake Board. Make your own honey extractor and tools to help you process honey. Capture swarms with devices you build from inexpensive equipment. Build these items from materials you 'recycle' in a dumpster dive; enjoy building things you never dreamed you needed, like jigs, that hold equipment together during assembly. Build a solar wax extractor and harvest the wax found in wax scraps and old combs.

144 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published December 10, 2011

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent for what it is. Frankly, the necessary equipment doesn't seem especially complicated to make if you've got any experience working with wood, but Simon lays out exactly what that equipment is in sufficient detail. With this book and a few tools, I think you could probably put together most of what you need from scraps in a few weekends.