Can one use treated wood for making a hive?

Started by ugcheleuce, January 27, 2014, 10:17:56 AM

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BeeMaster2

The reason that OLD wood is still around and not rotted out is that those chemicals are so poisonous that nothing can eat it. Not termites or fungus or bacteria.  You will poison your bees and your honey.
Jim
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capt44

You can buy lumber at the lumber yards.
Here in Central Arkansas a 1x12x8 is $8.72 each.
3 or 4 boards and a piece of plywood for the top will build a top bar hive.
I wouldn't risk treated lumber.
Richard Vardaman (capt44)

amun-ra

I use cca treated hives painted inside and out bees and honey dont come into contact with it and Ive never lost a honey customer yet ,if you dont count old age .There are worse things in your drinking water than youll get from treated boxes ????
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dfizer

Quote from: amun-ra on March 16, 2014, 06:11:30 PM
I use cca treated hives painted inside and out bees and honey dont come into contact with it and Ive never lost a honey customer yet ,if you dont count old age .There are worse things in your drinking water than youll get from treated boxes ????
That has to be one of the silliest things I've read in a VERY long time.  First, why put your bees in contact with the chemicals (from paint even) when you don't really have to... and not to mention all the extra work that went into preparing the inside of the hives to protect the bees from the pressure treated chemicals... and you did this by introducing yet MORE chemicals (paint).  UGH!  You must have a lot of free time on your hands.  I don't!  Therefore, I try to do what is absolutely best for the bees and me both. 
Regarding the use of pressure treated wood my experience is this - I constructed a hive stand made of locust post risers and pressure treated horizontal joists if you will.  That year 4 of my 5 hives went queenless and the other absconded.  This I attribute to the strong fumes coming from the pressure treated 2x8's sitting below the hives.  All of my hives have screened bottom boards so...  Although I cannot completely rule out something else I can surely tell you this.  I changed NOTHING else in my bee keeping practices that year.  The only variable was the newly constructed hive stand. 
I would strongly recommend against the use of pressure treated wood for hive body construction or hive stands.  Never again will pressure treated wood of any kind be permitted into my apiary.
David