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SPEAKER: So we're back, we're going to talk about putting boxes together now.
It's useful to have Carpenter's square, framing square for this purpose,
so we can make sure we're getting the boxes built squarely.
I've made up a little Jerk here, it's a Black and Decker workmate,
and then we put two pieces of half-inch plywood on there.
And then we just put this into place, tighten it up.
And now we got a platform to build our boxes on,
and a reference surface here to make sure we putting together squarely.
So here we have some box pieces.
And you just fit them together.
It's ideally if you assemble these pretty soon after you
get them because they can warp and crack over time.
Once they're warped, it's a little bit harder to clamp them together.
But so we get that against this reference face over here.
And then we put our top one into place,
make sure you put the handles on the outside of the box.
In most cases, boxes are made.
That's the only way you could do it.
But just double-check on that.
SPEAKER: So then we put this into place here and over here.
And it's really useful to have a mallet for tapping them into place.
And a good steady set of clamps to be able to clamp them into place.
Now these boxes have warped a bit.
So we'll just see how that works.
We clamp that together tightly there.
And then we clamp it together tightly on the front.
And now that's held together really securely.
And we have a place here.
And we are Ready to nail let's just double check again,
it's a little bit off.
So skew it over there.
And now we're good and tight.
We use half inch crown staples two inches long to do this job.
And just drive them Like so,
cut this around to the other side and drive there.
So that's one side of the box,
we then flip the box over and do the other end.
Once that's the other end is done,
we clip it onto its side and do all the finger joints along in there.
Finger jointed boxes, they're really quite strong.
If they're nailed like that.
If you want to make them even stronger,
you can put glue on all the face grain
parts of these joints here that will make them a little bit steadier.
SPEAKER: This happens to be a box returning into a double nucleus colony.
That's why the grooves and the holes and so on are in there.
Not your normal box, but that's what we had on hand.
There are some different kinds of boxes out
there with half through dovetail joints.
So you see these fit together like so.
And it's just a matter of tapping them into place.
And in this case, glue is probably the best way to put these
boxes so you would need to glue all those face grain
surfaces and then put the boxes together and then clamped
them until that glue is held and holds them in place,
takes about 20 minutes to half an hour for that glue
to set up before you move on to your other box.
A little bit slower doing it this way,
and they're actually not quite as strong as the finger-jointed boxes.
Once the boxes are put together, it's a matter of preparing
the outside surfaces so that they will last well.
I like to use oil-based primer because that seals up knots well.
And then two coats of an exterior latex paint.
Choose lots of great colours bees are very
well to a variety of different colours.
And so just go wild and make your bee hives look colourful as you go.
Thanks for watching.
See you another time.
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