Author Topic: Show us your hive! (Read 4806 times)

71Corvette · « **on:** January 28, 2012, 08:57:05 pm »

Hey All,

My wife and I are new to beekeeping and recently bought our hive bodies. As we've been working to assemble the pieces we started to think about how we should paint them. We've seen a several photos of nicely painted hives, some more elaborate than others, and thought it would be interesting to see some pictures of what others have done. Perhaps it will even give us a few ideas.

So, if you have some pictures, we'd love to see them!

Tommyt · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2012, 09:41:54 pm »

No picture here but mine are mostly off white
I did post to say
WELCOME to beemaster great place to learn and talk bees
all good folks, except for one windy :?
there is always one LOL
bee sides that all good here
Sure you'll like it :-D

Tommyt

jmblakeney · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2012, 01:03:25 am »

Hello and Welcome,
I only have an idea to share with you. I saw these at a beginners course once. They had supers there that were painted with a lace pattern. They painted the supers with a base coat that they wanted the color of the lace pattern to be. Then stretched the lace over each side tightly, one side at a time, and spray painted over the lace with a color that they wanted to be the background color. I don't have any pictures of the supers themselves but I do have a few pic of this technique done on other things.

Hope these ideas help you out some. I plan on doing some of my supers this way as well before spring b/c my wife really liked it.
Good luck,

James

BlueBee · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2012, 05:14:40 am »

I like to try to educate my bees (or the occasional beek) with my painting motif :)

FRAMEshift · « **Reply #4 on:** January 29, 2012, 07:56:29 am »

Quote from: BlueBee on January 29, 2012, 05:14:40 am

I like to try to educate my bees (or the occasional beek) with my painting motif :)

I like the idea and those equations are fine for the newbees. But for the prospective forager who must learn to fly, may I suggest the Bernouilli Equation:

FRAMEshift · « **Reply #5 on:** January 29, 2012, 07:59:54 am »

Bluebee, what are the patterns to the left of the entrances? Are you testing orientation symbols?

Tommyt · « **Reply #6 on:** January 29, 2012, 08:19:26 am »

Maybe bar-code landing instructions
or home address :?

:-D

Tommyt

rail · « **Reply #7 on:** January 29, 2012, 04:07:42 pm »

AllenF · « **Reply #8 on:** January 29, 2012, 06:48:12 pm »

jtow · « **Reply #9 on:** January 29, 2012, 07:59:47 pm »

My yellow hives.

Michael Bush · « **Reply #10 on:** January 29, 2012, 09:34:11 pm »

http://www.bushfarms.com/images/EightTenEightHives.jpg
http://www.bushfarms.com/images/TenFrameToEight.JPG
http://www.bushfarms.com/images/TBHinWInter.jpg

buck man · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2012, 03:36:10 am »

Some beautiful work guys and gals. I go with no paint, only a 350° bath in linseed oil and bees wax.

Michael Bach · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2012, 10:07:10 pm »

My favorite of two yards.

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buzzbee · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2012, 10:24:26 pm »

We did a thread like this a while ago. It took a while to find it,but here it is:
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,6865.160.html
Pics are always fun to look at.Keep them coming. :)

KD4MOJ · « **Reply #14 on:** January 31, 2012, 09:12:05 am »

Too bad alot of those pictures are unavailable in that thread. I like lookin' at others stuff!

...DOUG
KD4MOJ

buzzbee · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2012, 09:29:10 am »

Quote from: KD4MOJ on January 31, 2012, 09:12:05 am

Too bad alot of those pictures are unavailable in that thread. I like lookin' at others stuff!

...DOUG
KD4MOJ

When that started there were a lot of photo host sites that went belly up.And a lot of people would delete their personal photo sites making the links dead.

caticind · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2012, 01:32:05 pm »

Just a glamour shot...usually these sit off the ground, with two stacked cinderblocks at each end, and a couple of pieces of scrap wood on top of that to hold a sticky board when I need one.

buzzbee · « **Reply #17 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:19:32 pm »

Catacinid,
I like the looks of the horizontal hive. Is that three seperate covers to the dimensions of supers?

Hemlock · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2012, 11:18:03 pm »

The first two are still in the original location from 2008. The second pict shows the new location & hives from 2011.

BlueBee · « **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2012, 11:25:46 pm »

Hemlock, are you putting in a gas line to heat those hives?

Those are some nice looking hive stands and hives. I was kind of hoping to see a bear or two painted on them though :)

caticind · « **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2012, 11:39:28 pm »

Quote from: buzzbee on January 31, 2012, 02:19:32 pm

Catacinid,
I like the looks of the horizontal hive. Is that three seperate covers to the dimensions of supers?

Thank you! :D

That is three separate commercial-standard 10-frame Lang migratory covers on top. The hive takes up to 33 deep Lang frames and could be supered in one or more stacks if desired. I am too lazy to paint a fancy pattern (and don't want the hives to look too traditional in my urban neighborhood) so I use exterior wood stain on mine.