Look at what I got today :)

LoriMNnice · August 21, 2011, 08:19:14 PM

Picked all these items today at a GREAT price. 32 hive bodies, 7 queen excluders, 3 inner covers, 5 bottom boards, 6 tops, 5 frame feeders, 5 entrance reducers and almost all the hive bodies have frames in them, plus two mystery boards have no clue what they are. My husband was nice and picked them up for me but he made me unload them :) some of the frames have drawn out comb that are capped and have crystalized honey in them.

AllenF · August 21, 2011, 08:21:39 PM

Sweet. Now you are ready for spring. What do the mystery boards look like?

LoriMNnice · August 21, 2011, 09:54:06 PM

Quote from: AllenF on August 21, 2011, 08:21:39 PM
Sweet. Now you are ready for spring. What do the mystery boards look like?

yep, I am ready for spring :)
Here are the mystery boards, I thought the one on left was a top but it doesn't quite fit and the two pieces of wood in the middle you can wiggle around another view of it is in my first photo ontop of the smaller stack of deeps. The one on the right are some type of thin slats.

PeeVee · August 21, 2011, 10:18:51 PM

The right side collection appears to be what would be folded into boxes for comb honey. I have no idea why they would have been nailed in that fashion :?

buzzbee · August 21, 2011, 11:18:56 PM

The boards on the right are actually used in a special hive box to hold the section comb honey square boxes.
http://www.draperbee.com/beesupplies/SectionComb.pdf

these are the boxes used in this hive box.
http://www.draperbee.com/beesupplies/supply%20images/woodsections.jpg

I would think some of the real shallow boxes in the left side of your first photo may be the boxes that held these comb sections.

mushmushi · August 22, 2011, 09:43:09 AM

Are you planning on disinfecting the supplies ? If so, how ?

yockey5 · August 22, 2011, 09:53:47 AM

Cool! I'm ready for spring already!

LoriMNnice · August 22, 2011, 02:02:09 PM

Quote from: buzzbee on August 21, 2011, 11:18:56 PM
The boards on the right are actually used in a special hive box to hold the section comb honey square boxes.
http://www.draperbee.com/beesupplies/SectionComb.pdf

these are the boxes used in this hive box.
http://www.draperbee.com/beesupplies/supply%20images/woodsections.jpg

I would think some of the real shallow boxes in the left side of your first photo may be the boxes that held these comb sections.

Mystery solved. Thanks

LoriMNnice · August 22, 2011, 02:03:26 PM

Quote from: mushmushi on August 22, 2011, 09:43:09 AM

Are you planning on disinfecting the supplies ? If so, how ?

I am going to torch the used ones, but a lot of the boxes are new and never been used same with lots of the frames.

sunnyside · August 22, 2011, 02:14:59 PM

Lucky you!!! What a great find! Woodenware is a bit pricey but I haven't been able to find any used (or nearly new) equipment here where I live. Keep pestering my husband to make me some...

Kathyp · August 22, 2011, 02:27:14 PM

sunnyside, try a wanted ad on craigs list. i picked up to large lots of stuff there. one from a beekeepers widow and one from a guy who was getting out of it.

you never know what people have stashed out in the barn.

LoriMNnice · August 22, 2011, 03:27:45 PM

Quote from: sunnyside on August 22, 2011, 02:14:59 PM
Lucky you!!! What a great find! Woodenware is a bit pricey but I haven't been able to find any used (or nearly new) equipment here where I live. Keep pestering my husband to make me some...

Thats what I did was put a post on Craigslist, it said "WANTED any and all bee equipment" and that is how I got the items , they were from an elderly retired bee keeper. I put the post in the farm and garden section and it tne wanted section. Just be careful and don't go alone to pick up anything and make sure it is a fair price BEFORE going to pick it up.

stella · August 22, 2011, 06:03:16 PM

Lori, you are very lucky. I am from MN too and have been looking for more supplies via craigslist. Im sure I saw your ad. Never thought to post it as wanted.
If you have too much, Im in the St Cloud area.....hint,hint. :)

Course Bee · August 23, 2011, 03:27:36 PM

Stella, I know of a gentleman who stopped keeping this year at 96. He has a few items left if you're interested PM me.

stella · August 23, 2011, 06:49:38 PM

I just did. TY!