Create a Beekeeper’s Function Bench
Powerful, Lightweight, and Moveable – Bee Mate Beekeeping Work Bench Folds Flat for Storage
If there’s one particular thing each beekeeper genuinely needs in the bee yard, it is one more pair of hands. Properly, a Beekeeping Operate Bench can be the next best point to a helper at the hives:
To hold a frame (or several) for the duration of a hive inspection
To hold a hefty hive box when it really is time to reverse the brood chambers
To type out out capped frames of honey from a half-filled super at harvest time … and more uses than you can perhaps think about, until you have received a perform bench!
Photo: © Stonehaven Life DIY @ Home , employed by permission
Some beekeepers use a pair of sawhorses, cinder blocks, and boards as a makeshift operate bench in the bee yard – but which is difficult to move all around as you happen to be working with your bees. Others use an old kitchen table with the legs sawn down, a metal table from the bigbox DIY retailers, and possibly a frame rest that hooks on the side of a hive.
We did all of people things, also – in search of a resolution for squashed bees and back discomfort – until 2004, when my clever companion developed and built the unique Bee Mate workbench . It was so widely admired by our beekeeping buddies, he drew up a set of ideas so other beeks can make their own. Nice professional CAD drawings with dimensions and detailed instructions, the entire operates – just $5.00 will get you the PDF woodworking plans by instantaneous download.
Powerful, moveable, and so lightweight you can lift the Bee Mate with a single finger! And when your operate bench has completed its beekeeping duties, it folds up flat and hangs on a nail on the wall, neatly out of the way.
Or, as in the photograph over, flip your Bee Mate function bench into a picnic table by setting a couple of metal queen excluders on leading, or occasionally a serving tray, and gather around for a restorative cup of tea and an outdoor meal. That is what we usually do!
Photo: Beekeeping Work Bench © Stonehaven Life, utilized by permission
