How To Build A Beehive
In John Metz’s collection of over 14,000 woodworking plans and projects he has plans for just about anything you can make from wood. Beehives are no exception, there are several plans on how to build a beehive including the “Langstroth Hive” which is most widely used by beekeepers in the USA and is common throughout the world.
There are plans for an “Observation Hive” as well as plans for other beekeeping equipment.
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How To Build A Beehive – Simple Construction
You can choose a really simple plan that will enable you to build a beehive your bees will be more than happy with and that is easy for you to maintain.
Obviously the size of your beehive is important as it needs to cater for the size of your bee colony and have room for the bees to grow. There are recommended sizes as these beehive have been used by beekeepers for years, you need to be able to remove and add frames as required.
One of the main bonuses of beekeeping is being able to harvest the honey.
Building your own beehive will give you a great sense of personal satisfaction and will also be much cheaper than going out and buying beehives that someone else has made.
How To Build A Beehive – The Langstroth Hive
Building a beehive is fairly simple it’s a good project but be sure to make templates as once you build one beehive you’ll be sure to need more.
The Langstroth beehive is the type of beehive that many people visualise, it is essential a series of boxes and frames, very simple and straightforward to build with just a basic tool set. If you are used to using metric measurements you can easily convert this typical plan which is one of several in John’s collection of woodworking plans and projects.
There are more plans than just beehives that will help you with your beekeeping hobby, for example there are plans for a honey extractor which is basically a centrifugal device that takes the frames holding the honeycombs and enables you to spin them to get the maximum amount of honey.
There are also plans for a beehive solar wax melter, removeable swarm catching frames, frame jigs and even a bee vac. A Bee vac is invaluable for catching hard to reach swarms or for removing existing hives.
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