Thinking about a concrete stamp hr

Troy_3

I used to help my neighbor extract. We used to play a game as kids trying to pick out the droans. The barn had thousands of bees that would crawl up the wall to the ceiling and then fly down to the bottom of the wall and start all over again. The object was to see how many bees you could pick off the wall without getting stung. You really do seem to get immune to the stings. We didn't have gangs where I grew up. The mother of the house got burned really bad when the hot wax blew up all over her. You see there was a heated vibrating knife that would cut open the honeycomb and the wax then dropped into a heated vat to keep it liquid. from there the frame were put in the centifuge and spun. Sorry for rambling, these are old memorys.

hr

Anybody ever done this. Seems like a nice way to leave a lasting impression.
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Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

I've always admired

those concrete impressions; some of them include the year the work was done.

When I was a beekeeper, I used this branding iron to mark my hives and frames. I use it now to brand my tools.

Since then, the company that made them is no longer in business.



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DanHolohan

Wait a minute!

How does a beekeeper wander into THIS business?

Story time!

Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

You may

not have enough time to hear it all out.

It's like with my friend; sometimes when I start telling him something, he stops me and asks, "Is this gonna' be a long story?".

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Unknown

More than one...

I have kept a few swarms, myself. My grandfather and my parents did, and I learned to, too.

I've caught swarms wild, twice. One swarm I took out of the woods in the cab of a jeep, after dark. My friend said he'd walk out. It went OK till the hive cover started bouncing around and pinching bees. I took it off and went without it.

It's a frame of mind. If you show fear, they smell it. I didn't get stung that night, but other times.....

I stopped when bears got overly populated and took the fun out of it. I still have the tools and hives. Mom has the hot knife and honey extractor.

As a kid, I went with the family to find wild hives. Grandpa would chalk a bee and time it's return to the flowers, and off we'd go. Find another bee on flowers and chalk him. Time and follow that one. Pretty soon we were close enough to smell it. The hive was in an old dead tree. We caught the bees and saved a lot of the honey from the beetree. Other wild bees would finish cleaning up the tree.

How many other beekeepers are around here?

Noel

DanHolohan

I have all the time in the world.

I don't have a job!

Dan Peel

Chalking I understand....

Just how do you go about branding bees????
Dan

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Paul Pollets

Bees

I used to keep a few hives.

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Mark Eatherton1

I get the hives....

but I'm no beekeeper...

ME

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Wayco Wayne

several

weeks ago, a friend of mine at church asked me if I wanted to come help him extract honey from some honeycombs he had taken out of his bee hives. I went out and he had about 300 lbs of honey sitting in the back of his station wagon. He had the windows all up and the car parked in the full sun. This was his solar honey warmer. He took 4 honeycombs out at a time and used a hot knife to cut off the end caps. He then put the combs in this hand cranked centrifuge which whipped all of the honey out into a tub with a valve at the bottom. I left with a 2 lb jar for my work and had a wonderful time with friends and a cold one or 2.

Troy_3

branding iron

HR if you find a source I would love to do the same. Also date the panels I make and brand the date when delivered. Let meknow.

hr

Found a couple manufactures

The one at the link I posted is pricey,$300. Found another company around $75.00, and they will update the stamp date every year for a small charge. I'll get info to you.

hot rod

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