Good morning Bob! I really enjoy watching your woodworking videos. I'm in NE Minnesota and have decided to move my hives indoors. To accomplish that, I will need to build some migratory pallets. I'm intrigued by your design and thorough thought process. Do you have any dimensions and cut comments as I can order HDO plywood but it is very expensive and I would like to minimize waste. Also, do you think wax dipping the edges would seal the edges or would you use an oil based primer? Thank you.

what is the advantage of making nucs compared to package bees?

Good video Bob, I need a job!

It’s funny, Bob. When I listen to you it’s not always about the information you are giving out that’s most important to me, it’s more about trying to understand how you think about things. Those subtleties are priceless. I can’t put it into words at the moment.

Hello Bob from Indiana, do you sell the pallets brand new?

Do you have prices on migratory lids and the pallets?

I’ve never seen a $300 pallet. lol

Hey, Bob. In GA this winter. Curious if you would say more about diesel/oil mixture. Ratio. How long you let soak. Thank you.

I’m always impressed with your shop and the good folk you have working for you.

What are they for?

I have two remarks. I am in North Africa, and most hives are single deeps. 1. Putting the excluder at wrong time causes swarming. 2. Adding the super to let the hive expand but using drawn comb only is also dangerous as it can cause swarming. The queen in fact "does not like" used frames. It wants new frames. If you put drawn comb, the workers are quicker than the queen. If you use foundation, the queen is quicker and is able to lay before even the bees are able to finish it while in other situation whenever the queen tries to look for empty cell, it finds almost evry cell with some drops of honey or pollen. So putting drawn comb is similar to having blocked growth, and having constrained the queen. That leads to swarming. In addition, it also thought that yound workers want to draw comb. So if you do not give it foundation, it is kind of jobless, so it swarms. Evry beekeeper, depending on the region, needs to allow his hive to expand (expansion = foundation frames) but the moment the bees shift to honey (new foundation are drawn very slowly), then we can shift to inserting drawn comb and evenb remove unfinished frames and put the excluder. In my region many do not use the excluder. If you put frames in the super, the bees will enlarge them and put only honey there, most often. When we use excluder, we just insert it for merely few days, then we remove it. Those few days are enough for bees to go to evry cell and start putting honey. Of course, no cell might be full with honey but the goal is achieved, the queen if she ever wants to go up she can't find where to lay, so she goes back. By doing so, the bees are not hampered by the excluder and they can move in/up very fast. We also use some other techniques but they only apply to our harsh environment.

Seth… what did you say? Yessssirrrr

merci pour le partage👍

I have done removals on floor 11 of a high rise building. SHB were there, no prob going up 100 feet straight up.

Probably not that much different in price doing it right.. I think most will use all treated .. I know one thing there's a bee shortage in the commercial industry... not sure there's even bees to supply Canada once they get that mess worked out.. my friend out in ND runs 7k units had great bee building season but he lives with them bees . Goes home for a nap little food he's skinny as rail right .. he said only bees he seen heading south was his.. rest was truck loads of deadouts. They run them north pile on the supers and go home for month .. they will drive back up maybe barrel feed them once they get the word they are light. They need that flow to fatten up. Add in using daddy old combs and un checked mite population it's a disaster they hope they can fix by running them back south.. I tried to buy 100 units after almonds just to split and sell as singles triple my money really quick.. normally deals like that I can get done in Dec rather easy.. sounds like there's operation can use them more than me so I decided just to run my 250 units hard on comb honey go after that whole frame comb honey market down in the city .. going to have it in every market.. seeing it's not cut or prossed I don't have the regulations to sell it like I would prossed.. those foreign Nationals want whole frame anyway and pay big for it.. these cultures date back with honey bees it's part of their religion

They don't make a board stretcher? Ha ha😂 Awesome details.

Have you ever used PVC board for lids etc?

Where can I purchase the pourform HDO from?

That Felder is a nice saw. Hope you and your crew have a great winter. We are all bee keepers in the summer and wood workers in the winter. I even have the wife coming home now and then telling me I found this wood at work or on the road. Lets make bee equipment with it. lol

It would be nice to have a wood shop, good looking products. Thanks for sharing

This is the 2nd or 3rd time i watch this video, i can never get enough from your videos as i feel like i learn something new each time. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us less experienced. This summer i had gotten a hive from a company, and there was a strip in the the bottom board between the planks that was about ⅜" of a gap and one of my other colonies found it and started robbing it 😮 do you ever worry about bees robbing from those holes? To be fair, the holes will prob be covered by grass and i had pit mine on a stand that i had built out of cinder blocks, then a pallet across the 2 piles of cinder blocks. Then my hive on top of it all so there was a significant air gap between the bottom board and the ground. So i wonder if i may have answered my own question. Have you ever had issues with mice getting in these holes?

I got here a little late but as usual it was a great video

As usual, great explanation… And Selena looks good as ever😜

I think you've already covered this topic bob

Thanks everyone! Nice to see Seth👍

Awesome to see everyone in the wood shop! Will you be selling your other table saws ? 😊

Bob, just curious, at your age I'm sure you have thought how you're going to end this business you created. Who's going to take over?

HDO works. superly. .My only additional advice after almost 40 years of MDO and HDO bee use is that tge failure is always on the edges and paint wont and doenst cut it . they need either 2 psr polyurea or two part mix epoxy coatings for real longevity. take that 10 yeara and double and triple it with the right edge coating.

This is great work, but this is causing more weight and how much weight extra because I’m thinking about using this on a trailer for almonds ?

See you this week Bob will email you

Do you have thoughts on MDO vs. HDO? MDO seems much easier to find.

I am trying the Varroxsan and could see a huge result in just a few days. I am sold on this product. I have screen bottom boards w/ inspection board pull outs and could clearly see the mite drops. Because of cold weather this is ideal

Отличный урок по столярке👌👍

Felder Austria 💪💪💪

Nice work Bob !

Great video. I've been a structural concrete carpenter for 40 years and have use HDO numerous times. If I could only go back in time and collect the waste. It's expensive but we'll worth it.

Good morning, Bob and crew! I love the attention to detail. Lots of experience goes into every piece of equipment that you make. It may be a little more expensive than somewhere else, but it'll last for years. See you and the crew at NAHBE.

😂gonna get down to -18 😅

I cant find the video, but dont you make the shims for the lids 1/2"?

Hello Professor, I am a young beekeeper and I have certificates in beekeeping and I have experience working with bees for more than 20 years. Do you employ workers from outside the country? Thank you.

Hello Bob 18 more days. I really like the HDO lids and bottom boards. I have purchased from you in the past. They don’t warp or anything.

Mr Bob. Why no glue on the pallets? And great to see Seth. Surprised me

I enjoy seeing your wood shop anytime your video shows. I have use 1/2 inch MDO on covers and pallets and I like them just because they are lightweight and durable enough.

Do yall sell the pallets in store?

Hollo Bob . At the beginning of this season I was at Lowe’s here in Asheboro an I just thought about that HDO so while I was in there I ask . WOW there was NO ONE in the store that had ever heard of it . Bob tomorrow what is a good time of day to catch you around work . I have something I would like to talk to you about. As always thanks for all you do . Oh ya I also thought Seath had skipped the country.

Bob what would you recommend instead of HDO? I live in north central Wisconsin and it's not available here. I've used exterior plywood as well as composite flat goods, it all delaminates in the end.

Great information Bob thank you all for making and sharing this 👍🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great presentation again. High Density Overlay is hard to find. Whenever I look for it online I'm sent to sites with lower quality overlays. You're so right with the shop safety and gloves. Also noticed the the sleeves rolled up on the saw operator. My father was a wood shop teacher. He wore a suit and tie to work every day. The coat came off at work and he wore short sleeve dress shirts. His tie was a bow tie so that it wouldn't get caught in the blades. He taught me the safety rules to the equipment and I follow them to a 'T'.

Thanks for sharing your time with us this cold Sunday morning. Merry Christmas to you and your family and your work family as well. Thanks again. Been awhile since I've been to BRH. Gonna try and come up next year for a visit and some honey.

Next time you're looking for a video subject, i would love to see a Seth update. Between a new bee business, a new kid, and a new wife, I'm sure there is a story there.