Comments on: Hive inspection http://www.cthreepo.com/bees/2010/04/hive-inspection.html My Progress with Bees Sun, 19 May 2013 03:11:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keith http://www.cthreepo.com/bees/2010/04/hive-inspection.html/comment-page-1#comment-1220 Keith Fri, 11 May 2012 12:57:27 +0000 http://www.cthreepo.com/bees/?p=123#comment-1220 Sounds like good advice. I am using the cheapest plywood money can buy I think it is rated C-D which means that one side is pretty bad and the other side is worse. The plywood is sanded, but is no anywhere near what you’d call finished. I am going to paint the outside to protect from the elements, but I won’t touch the inside.

Thanks,

Keith

]]> By: Troy http://www.cthreepo.com/bees/2010/04/hive-inspection.html/comment-page-1#comment-1219 Troy Fri, 11 May 2012 06:26:25 +0000 http://www.cthreepo.com/bees/?p=123#comment-1219 After some 30 years of beekeeping in many bee acssoiations as Chair,seccy etc largely experimenting and now ageing a little have a single Warr’e. One word of warning. Do make the hive of rough timber, pallets probably not thick enough timber in the UK. Making from any form of ply and putiing any form of safe protection coating will prove too smooth to permit an easy climb in for the bees.I have a swarm that is trying it’s darndest to make it for the third day despite my pre rubbing old comb on all the internal surfaces and giving some good drawn comb.It would seem that the rougher the timber the better.

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