Homemade apiary

The easiest way to make a Ramkonos with your own hands is from a wide variety of apiary accessories. However, the beekeeper will need many other tools, equipment and inventory. Most of the accessories can be easily purchased, but hand-made products are considered the most convenient.

Homemade apiary

The main inventory of an apiary is a beehive. Professional beekeepers make them with their own hands from boards. However, without tools and equipment, the beekeeper will not be able to maintain the hives, take care of the bees, pump honey, and heat the wax. Beekeeping accessories are commercially available, but their cost is often overpriced. Another disadvantage is the inconvenience of working with factory products. Sometimes beekeeping equipment is ill-conceived, made of poor quality materials.

A beekeeper with his own hands creates the most convenient beekeeping devices for work. They are completely free of charge, and in terms of quality they are able to compete with factory counterparts.

How to make Ramkonos

It is difficult and dangerous for the beekeeper to carry frames with honey to the honey extractor with his hands in the presence of bees. Likewise, it is inconvenient to deliver foundation to the hives. Ramkonos helps to simplify the task. The apiary device resembles an ordinary wooden box, containing from 6 to 10 frames. For carrying it is equipped with a handle. You can fold the simplest apiary framekonos with your own hands according to the presented drawing.

The DIY assembly process consists of the following steps:

1. First, they are determined with the size of the apiary frame. It should be able to accommodate the frames used in the hives. The frame consists of two side, front and rear walls, bottom, cover. In total, you need to put together 6 elements of the box with your own hands.
2. For the frame, slats with a section of 20x45 mm are used. Do-it-yourself sheathing is carried out by fiberboard. The slats are nailed on the outside of the walls so that the apiary framekonos is conveniently grasped by the protrusions with your hands. Inside the box, 2 slats are similarly nailed, forming a support for the frames.
3. The bottom is nailed down last and the lid is fixed with hinges. It should be reclined to one side. A vent hole is drilled in the front panel, but this is optional. Many beekeepers refuse ventilation. Brackets are attached to the frame of the frame, and the handle is hooked from the belt.
4. If necessary, beekeepers quickly adapt a beekeeper's framekonos designed by their own hands to catching a swarm.

In the video, an example of a ramkonos:

Bee remover

The functionality of the apiary bee remover resembles a check valve. Bees from the honey body move to the nest through special channels. They cannot go back. Having installed the bee remover in the evening, the beekeeper can safely maintain the insect-free frames the next day.

From factory beekeeping devices, beekeepers from Krasnov and Quebec are popular with beekeepers. The latter is made in the form of a separating diaphragm and resembles a labyrinth. The basis of the apiary bee remover is a four-layer plywood. Two triangles are fixed from the rails below.Their sides do not close at the corners, but form a gap of 8-10 mm. A hole is drilled in the center of the triangle. The total area of ​​the triangles is covered from above by a grid.

Assembling a bee remover with your own hands is no more difficult than an apiary ramkonos. Drawings will be needed. The dimensions must correspond to the internal parameters of the hive so that the bee remover can be installed. Plywood thickness - from 10 to 25 mm. The hole diameter in the center of the triangle is up to 50 mm.

The slats for the triangle are 20 mm wide. The distance between the elements forming the channel is about 18 mm. Additionally, you will need bars for the frame.

DIY assembly technique is simple. Triangles are formed from the slats. Billets are glued or shot with staples. A hole is drilled in the center of the triangle with a feather drill. The edges of the plywood blank with their own hands are framed with bars. The area of ​​the triangle is covered with a fine-mesh steel mesh.

Pollen collector

Pollen is a useful beekeeping product. To collect it with his own hands, the beekeeper puts pollen traps on the hives. Professional beekeepers do not like shop beekeeping devices. They have a lot of extra holes or their diameter is too small. Beekeeping homemade products are more popular, helping the beekeeper collect a lot of beekeepers.

A feature of self-assembled beekeeping devices is the presence of a figured hole. A bee crawling through it is guaranteed to leave all the fragments in the collection.

It is easy to fold the apiary device with your own hands according to the drawing. First, a bar with holes with a diameter of 5 mm is prepared for the pollen collector with their own hands. The fishing line will help to make them curly. The veins are passed through the holes, braiding them in a ring. Overcoming the obstacle, the bees will cling to their paws and push the line apart. Actions will lead to tearing off the pegs.

The apiary pollen collector is placed on the hive in front so that the lower cut of the entrance coincides with the upper edge of the arrival bar. A bar is placed in the slot on the cover of the beekeeper pollen trap. The arrival board is covered with a mesh with cells of 3x3 mm. The torn pieces will roll into the ditch.

The groove in the bee pollen collector can be used to install a dividing grid to prevent the uterus from flying out.

Collect and install the bottom pollen collector with their own hands in the bee pavilion, when the bees bring the maximum amount of pollen. On unproductive days, you cannot use the apiary device.

The construction of the bottom scrap collector consists of a valve. When it is lifted, the bees enter the nest without passing through the lattice. During the assembly of the board with your own hands, the valve is lowered.

Caps for queens

For planting queens, special caps are used. Beekeepers improve factory models with their own hands by making a hole and equipping a lid. The device is pressed into the honeycomb area, where there is honey, empty cells and young growth.

You can quickly create caps for bee queens in the field from a PET bottle with your own hands. First, cut off the bottom with scissors. With an awl, pierce up to 20 holes with a diameter of 2 mm. Three days after installing the cap, the exit is covered with foundation, drilling a hole for the queen. If the queen does not come out on her own, she is released by lifting one edge of the cap.

Apiary scales

Beekeeping equipment for weighing is expensive, and you cannot do without it. To build an apiary scales with your own hands, the beekeeper will be burned with ingenuity. The structure is made according to the principle of the suspension system.You will need to hang a set of blocks from a strong ceiling, pull a cable through them and attach the scales.

More convenient do-it-yourself hive scales are obtained by re-equipping a factory device with a strain gauge. The scales are taken apart. The removed electronics are taken out, fixed in a convenient place.

The movable weighing platform is mounted on levers connected to the frame by springs. For conversion, you need to weld a frame from the corner with your own hands, equip it with four bearings. The homemade frame is attached to the main frame with four screws.

To raise the scales on the frame, weld a nut, screw in a handle. For weighing, bars with a thickness of 55 mm are placed under the bottom of the hive. Scales roll up into the gap, press the power button. When the zeros are highlighted on the scoreboard, turn the handle to raise the movable platform by 20 mm. After weighing the hives, the beekeeper turns the handle in the opposite direction.

The bearings of the apiary scale are rolled synchronously. To raise or lower the platform, the handle is turned about 20 times.

Electrodetector

To simplify the work with foundation, beekeepers have created an apiary beekeeping machine with their own hands. Its peculiarity is that it works on electricity. To assemble an elektronavashchivatel with your own hands, you need an old working battery, 2 wires with clamping terminals.

The essence of the apiary is that the terminals are connected to the wire on the frame. When the circuit is closed, it starts to heat up. The foundation is placed on a hot wire, pressed with glass. Through the transparent sheet, you can see how the strings are soldered into the wax.

Frame assembly jig

It is easy to assemble a small number of frames with your own hands. For a large apiary, mass production is being established. Special templates - conductors help speed up the process. Beekeeping devices are made of wood and metal. The easiest way is to design a jig for assembling frames for a hive with your own hands from wood.

The template is assembled in the form of a box without a bottom and a lid. The inner size corresponds to the dimensions of the frame. Holes are cut out in the side walls of the template, the strips are inserted so that a gap is formed between them and the elements of the conductor, equal to the thickness of the workpiece for the frame.

Planks with lugs are inserted into the gaps, which are the side elements of the frame. Side jumpers are inserted into the grooves of the slats first from above and then from below. Elements are knocked down with nails. The finished frames are removed from the conductor. Usually the beekeeper turns out to make up to 10 pieces at a time with his own hands.

How to make a bee analyzer

The beekeeper's sophisticated beekeeping homemade products are based on electronics. Soldering them with your own hands is within the power of an experienced radio amateur. The most common electronic beekeeping device is the bee analyzer. The device helps to monitor the activity of bees. The apiary analyzer reacts to noise. The frequency spectrum in a normal hive is between 260 and 320 Hz. In the event of swarming, illness, the disappearance of the queen, the activity of the bees is reduced. The spectrum of noise frequencies is in the range of 210-250 Hz, which serves as a signal to the beekeeper.

A self-assembled apiary analyzer reacts to the frequency of noise in the hive. LEDs serve as signal indicators. One light gives a “Yes” signal and the other “No”.

In fig. 1 diagram of the apiary analyzer, and in Fig. 2 - power supply unit. The numbering of radio components in the second diagram is a continuation of the numbering of the first diagram.

The device for pulling the wire on the frames

Do-it-yourself manual stretching of the wire onto the frame does not always end successfully with the beekeeper. The string breaks or sags. A special apiary device helps to carry out a quick stretch with your own hands under the right effort.

To make an apiary tensioner with your own hands, you will need an old tabletop or a piece of chipboard. The size of the workpiece should be larger than the frame. On the countertop of 5 blocks, limiters are made to stop the frame.The tensioning mechanism is a lever with an eccentric rotating on a hairpin. When turning down, the eccentric presses the side rail of the frame. After releasing, the installed string is stretched.

How to make your own uterine insulator

For isolation in the queen's nest, beekeepers use a special apiary device - an insulator. The simplest cell with their own hands in the field is made from two necks of plastic bottles. First, they are sawn off with their own hands with a hacksaw for metal. The blanks are connected with tape so that the threaded necks look in opposite directions.

A piece of plastic cut from the wall of the bottle is inserted into one of the corks. Ventilation holes are cut in all necks and the inserted piece. Kandy's food is pushed into one cork, closed with a napkin with a small hole, and wound around the neck. The second plug is made with a hole so that the isolated queen does not suffocate. During the replanting of the uterus, it is unscrewed, and the neck is closed with foundation, lightly greased with honey.

The cage is suspended inside the hive with a cork down. The bees gradually gnaw the foundation, free the uterus from the isolator.

Hive canvas

Inside the hive, beekeepers cover the frames with honeycombs with special webs. It will not be difficult to make them with your own hands by cutting them to size from natural fabric. Flax or cotton material is ideal. The fabric retains heat well, allows air to pass through, and removes steam from the hive.

Beekeepers cut out polyethylene canvas with their own hands. The artificial material retains heat well, but does not allow air to pass through. For the winter, it is better to lay laps made of breathable material.

What else can you make homemade beekeeping with your own hands?

There are many other beekeeper's beekeeping devices, and you can easily make them yourself.

A convenient apiary attribute of the beekeeper is a box-stool. The base is knocked off the bars. The seat is cut out of the board with your own hands, a hole for the handle is sawn through. The box body is knocked off the plywood. It is convenient for the beekeeper to sit on a stool while servicing frames, hives. The entire tool is always at hand in the box.

Beekeepers collect the inside of the hive feeders with their own hands from the frames. First, the honeycomb and wire are removed. The frame is sheathed with plywood, the joints are sealed with wax.

In the form of boxes, beekeepers make overframe ceiling feeders. They are made by hand, wooden or plastic.

Conclusion

Do-it-yourself ramkonos and other beekeeping accessories are easy to make in 1-2 hours. Schemes and tips can always be found on thematic forums where beekeepers share their achievements.

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