Assembling Beehives Part 2
As I build the second box, everything comes into place quite nicely. I build them from the bottom up, starting with the brood box. I use long brad nails to put it all together. It was made easy as there were predrilled holes for where I shot my nails into. I was a little worried brad nails would not be enough but once I had them all in there it was quite strong. That way the boards were cut with a finger design seems to be the way to go with these boards. Not sure I would have been able to make them, so glad bought them and then assembled the boxes.
Once the brood box is built, I put the frames in the box to make sure its all square. They fit well so I move onto the feeder box, also where I keep the sugar water I will be supplementing their diet with.
After assembly of the boxes, I moved onto painting them. I used three to four coats of outdoor paint and filled any gaps in the fingers in the wood with extra paint. I only painted the outside and left the inside bare. After painting and touching up I moved onto sanding down the tops, as the paint I got on the tops makes the sections stick and pill paint off the sides sometimes.
Once painting is done, I will wait for cooler weather and start working in the woods to set up these homes I assembled and painted. I am waiting for cooler weather as there are many ticks in the forest, and I would rather avoid them if possible.
My plans are to set up 4x4 posts resting on concrete blocks, that will bring the hives a few feet off the ground. And I can coat the 4x4 posts with tanglefoot to minimize the ability for hive beetles to climb into the beehives. From what I have read the bees do not mess with tanglefoot, but the beetles have to cross the barrier and get stuck in it. Unlike the bees that fly around it and do not have to deal with the stuff. I also have some prep work to do around where the hives will be located. I plan on clearing out ten feet around them to keep plants from growing up around the hives. And so my bee suit does not catch on thorns or other things that may rip the suit and exposing me to bees.. haha do not want.
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Interesting post. The hives seem small.) We have big beekeepers in the forest.
Good eye, you are correct they are on the smaller side. I decided to go with smaller boxes until I get a handle on raising bees. Maybe next time ill get the next size up.
thanks alot for the comment.
Why do you downvote me?
70 words with no description between photo's, getting over 200 upvotes is not legit. Its probably why you are on blacklist. I am just balancing out the rewards for low quality posts. It goes back to the reward pool for others to enjoy.
Okay my post isnt worth 2$ and your post with few words and one picture are worth 15$?
Just goes to show what kind greedy human being you are.
My posts have 5x more content than yours.. Maybe if you had more content in your posts you could earn like I do too.
Let people decide how much they want to upvote.
You gained alot of hive power, and now you are deciding how much will someone have upvotes on their post.That isnt right, and it will be the fastest way for Hive to go to 0$.
These was supposed to be a decentralized social platform, not a centralized one!
A great way to have Hive go to zero is to allow people to get 200 upvotes for something that took no more than 5 minutes to write. Those 200 upvotes will be worth alot one day and stopping this behavior now is key to Hives sucess.
Have you heard about a curation trail those upvotes are from 300 people that joined the same trail.
You should educate yourself about Hive and what a curation trail is before blocking the upvotes from the whole community.
You have no idea that one downvote could remove the whole trail of 300 people.
Ah which one? Yep theres a whole bunch of communities and voting trails. Not sure which one you are referring to.
BackScratcher curation trail.
Thanks for admitting you are using backscratcher.
Please read up on the Hardfork 21 more specifically the Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP).
Maybe you are not aware, but the community is not allowing these types of upvote trails anymore. If you want to keep using them I suggest you try posting on Steem.
Though a word of warning, the witnesses there are known for stealing funds. But at least you can do upvote circles there (if the witnesses allow it).
Please stop downvoting me now.
Will you stop using the trail?
Mate i dont get a single upvote when i am not using it.
Do you relize how much money and time i invested in hive, i need to get my investments back.
Dont be a police oficer on a decentrlized blockchain.
You did not answer me. People have noticed you, and if you keep using backscratcher or any other upvoting circles consider your payouts null.
I told you why you should not be doing this, and here you keep arguing with me. The community chose to go this route after HF21, and by you trying to go against what everyone has worked so hard for is quite selfish.
I am selfish?
And you are using either some trail or circle jerk friend to get 15$ worth of upvotes on your posts.
I got there writing quality posts (350 words or more) over 2 years daily and sometimes twice daily. Making sure all my pictures have descriptions in them. With quality content the upvotes will come as you get noticed.
It doesnt mean if you have 350 words that your posts are quality.
I personaly dont think that your posts are quality they dont deserve 15$ per post.
Of course not, but its one of the core metrics people look at when gauging a posts quality. Your posts must have substance, and be well read. It cannot just be a bunch of words. Alot goes into a quality post.
In one of my posts you thought it was just a picture, its a 20 minute long video. So its obvious you do not even look at my content so why should I care what you think. Sorry you do not like bees, but most of my followers love my bee content. Has actually been some of my best performing posts.
Heres your quote
"Okay my post isnt worth 2$ and your post with few words and one picture are worth 15$?"
I suggest you join some of the Hive discords, and like PAL. You could make friends, followers and eventually maybe get some upvotes as your posts imporve.
Just using an upvote service will not get you the attention you want.
Please dont downvote me and leave me alone.
Depends on if you use backscratcher..
If you decide to be a part of the community and not just try to take advantage heres a link.. tell them Solo sent ya.
https://discord.gg/N63xYpC
BTW: I would be happy to give you upvotes if your content turned around. And if you were not using frowned upon voting trails.
He makes some big assumptions about what you know :)
Anyway, we get to use our votes to adjust rewards as we see fit.
Seems to be an reoccurring theme when I downvote milkers.
They always claim I have more to learn about Hive. Wish they would link me to this insightful knowledge they claim to know. I agree I have more to learn about everything, funny they always call me out for it.
We are likely to be called bullies or racists for downvoting people, but it's often valid. We want rewards to go to those who earn them.
Yeah we are going to get flack, but its important to set a standard otherwise we will get major price slippage IMO.