Winter tasks

So with a rainy cold day, I retired to my woodwork shop , to mess with some bee hive stuff.
I made and nailed up 10 Medium Frames for the Boy Scout Project

Frames

Then I started to build 4x Med Supers for my hives, I cut the boards to length

First step cut to depth of a board

Setting the blade to the height Aligning the Tenon jig The final product

of one boardNow we cut off the unwasnted part of the tennon checking the depth of the cut

Getting ready to trip the tennon

Rabbit cut on both ends

Cutting the frame rest 3/8 rabbit



The final dimensional cutting done


Next the cove handholds, this is a 15 deg jig that slides into a dado blade, the board being cut is inserted face (outside) down, an the top is also DOWN.





Cut board folded over a clean cut with 4 deg undercut as well as blade is at 19 dg

New Year

Well my first year of bees faded away, and I have learned a lot, but have so much more to learn.

So far the bees have done fine, with such a light winter, and they have worked many days, in fact even saw pollen last week. All the hives seem to have good stores ( heave test)

On Dec 31st, witha temperature of 63 deg f, I have a video of new bees taking an exploratory flight, a first I thought it might be robbing, but nope, and within 10 minutes they had gone back inside.

I am also open feeding in the bee yard, 2:1 syrup with splash of Honey B Healthy. Works very well from a 1 gallon pickle jar , raised on two pieces of wood.

If the weather stays so warm, then mid Jan, I will be adding pollen substitute, and brewers yeast.