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Bushkill 4-way Mating Nuc
AllenF:
Send a message to Robo. It did not work for me either. Something with the site I would guess.
Robo:
Site fixed. Upgrade gone bad.....
RobWok:
Thanks so much for putting this out there. I love it. Instead of plywood, I had some pallets that had boards on top that were 10.5" wide Was able to use a few of those and built 5 of these. Instead of the extra pieces that you put inside, I instead cut a 1/4" dado on the inside before I assembled the boxes. What this means is that it is exactly the same size inside and out as a standard deep. I'll be affixing basically an inner cover that is flush on one side on the bottom. My goal was to see if I could build your setup with a standard deep box and just modify it a little. That way, anyone should be able to order a deep box and cut some rabbets and some holes in it. I also made the frame rests the 13/16" like you have in your plans. It should have minimal effect on a normal frame. I always seem to run out of deep hive bodies. This way, I can have some spares if I need them.
Here's the other plus. I plan to take out 2 of the sides and just leave the center divider in for the winter - meaning, I can try to overwinter 2 hives that share the same deep box. I'm trying to figure out the best way to stack them too. That could get a little tricky. May still need to put 2 5 frame nucs on top to super them. Probably just better to make more solid nucs, or order them.
Anyway, thanks for the plans!
scubajohn:
--- Quote from: Michael Bush on September 14, 2011, 01:36:50 am ---Plywood has designations for the quality of the surface (A, B, C and D) and the kind of glue (X is exterior). So 3/4" CDX is one C surface, one D surface and exterior glue. Unless you can find some Marine plywood, I'd use the CDX as it is commonly available for a decent price.
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I have been buying a cabinet type ply from the depot called china birch I paint it and it has been working great very smooth flat and takes a dado well 3/4 is 32 bucks last time I bought it
rob brinkerhoff:
Great post. Thanks for putting this on here.
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