it's cheap homesteading here in today's the day I'm gonna start making my be
equipment I decided I'm gonna make a series of videos on how I make my be
equipment because the equipments so expensive it's basically the biggest
limiting factor in people decided to beekeeper not four years ago I went from
four hives to 50 now and I would not have been able to do that if I purchased
all the equipment so I calculated it up and it was gonna cost me put twelve
thousand dollars in equipment to get to where I am now and that's crazy you
didn't even make one dime yet so basically I used scrap wood bought the
wood I had to purchase and I built all my equipment and my B operation is up
and running and it really didn't cost me a tenth of that so let's start the whole
thing about beekeeping is you got to make all the equipment the same you got
to make sure that it's interchangeable because if you don't that just turns
into a nightmare when you're making a split and you've carried all the
equipment out to the beard and then the lid doesn't fit or the base or frame so
you really have to make sure that it is all interchangeable okay so we're gonna
go get some wood and release most of what I use from a beehives are old
pallets I do buy wood to make the boxes because hard to get ten boards in a
pallet okay so it looks like it's seven eight and luckily enough this is exactly
seven eight so I am just going to have to cut the dimension so this is one and
a half inches to set my fence the one five inches that should be it
no takers I might've saw okay so we got the lid we're gonna measure the two bags
so 22 inches is my length so we're gonna make 22 if I
was making a whole bunch more all at once
I would I would make a jig so I can just keep ripping them out very quickly but
today we're just gonna make a couple lids
ok so now I'm going to measure the inside piece and that's 17 in so America
please
of short one that's always the way okay now we're gonna cut the plywood so what
I need is a piece of plywood that will cover 18 and 3/4 so one way I found you
do this and it should be 18 jacket 18 and 3/4 that's great
so this is plywood left over from making my be wintering boxes
okay so now I have to cut the length and by the way the length is 22 and a
quarter inches but it's important to keep tap less because it's kind of nice
you can just put the other piece up against it measured if you don't know
what size it is
now I got all my pieces cut out I'm gonna assemble it I normally use my
crown stapler just to put it all together and then I can go back and nail
it because crown staples aren't very big and I wouldn't trust using them to
physically hold your lids together for a good length of time because eventually a
little rot out pretty much for sure I use the crown stapler hold it all
together and then I go around a nail that with some some more substantial
nails my final stapler does not like the temperature in my garage so I am NOT
going would you fight with it so I'm gonna do use nails right from the square
one okay so it's really important use your long ones on the side and you put
that on top and your small ones go in the middle or however you decide to
measure it make sure you don't put the other way it definitely won't fit okay
so make sure you put the long ones on the side the little one in the middle
and I'll just nail it together you know it's truly amazing the causas equipment
like some stuff you do need to purchase because it's just not worth all that
time and you only have so much time a lot of people work and to work and run a
fairly extensive business it takes some juggling and it takes looking at the
situation as saying well that's not worth it to me to make even though I can
make it so sometimes you just gotta do it you got to do to get things done okay
pick your best side of your plywood because you want the water to run off
not cool you don't want like knots and holes where water can pool up then just
nail it up I got these nails at a garage sale and
you know what garage sales are great places to pick up hardware like nails
and that because people don't really see value in nails but nails are very
expensive to purchase so whenever you see it you pick it up you can get that
four-way way chief I got all these nails in a bucket it was a sitting under a
bench and I can't remember exactly but I probably didn't then like two bucks for
whole pail and nails and I've used it for all kinds of projects basically my
beekeeping stuff like lids and bottom boards and all that that's basically
what I've been using to assemble and I've had to purchase all those nails
that would be a bit of money so you just got to keep the costume in little ways
so there you go I got one lid done I got 49 to go so have a good one