Yesterday I bought home a cutout hive and had no place to put it. I look around and pulled out 2-12? 4x4s and an 8? long piece of galvanized iron pipe.
I cut the pipe into 12? sections and drilled 4 holes, the same size as the pipe, 2? deep in each of the 4x4s.
I then found a 4? piece of 4x4 and drilled 8 holes, 2? deep, in it to make the feet and cut it into 6? sections. Note: the Fostener (so) drill bit is the same size as the pipe. After I drilled the holes, the pipe will not fit in the hole. I had to ream out the holes by swiveling the drill motor around to enlarge the holes. I tried pounding them in. The large 4x4s would not allow them to go in and the small ones split open.
I then cut 8-2x4 boards to 18?. This is the width of my stand. That makes it so that the hives hang over the back of the hive for weight testing.
I found 8 Dixie cups and drilled the same size hole in the bottom of each. I destroyed a bunch of cups to figure out how to drill them. The only way to do it was to just barely touch the cup and drill at high speed to melt the hole through.
Here are all of the pieces laid out.
Continued.