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His show is a hoot! 😁

Not a business here but I have given honey away and sold some. I am thinking I need to dabble into making Meade. Suff Is ordered for that.

Very Neat Daryk! I'm going to follow this close. Carry on and get er done 😀

Dang come to think of it you are right. That is going to be on my to do list. When wandering the woods, I will look for the perfect one. Grab one of my draw knives and go to work!

Not if you find a decent deal and do restoration. 😁

Jeff, @curtisce brother is a commercial beekeeper. Curt mentioned his brother took hives out West to the Almond groves for pollination work.

Ha Oneshot, you go to some pretty bizarre places on here :). Know I should but I’m old school robbed bunch of hives. Poacher! Na better you get the booty Mr. Honey pirate.

Here is what I use @Dutch. Home made. From a set of rope blocks, chain and da bolt. I have a friend who made one like you are looking at. I'm not into lifting into a trailer or onto ATV anymore. When deer is down and field dressed I set my decoy sled on it's side. Roll deer into it and tip sled back to pulling position. Hook rope on ATV Ball and pull deer home and under rope blocks. Pull up and snatch off. Easy peasy. No stress using pulleys.

Pretty neat Dutch, Thanks for sharing and saving the bees.

Really interesting John, I had a hard time watching the crop-duster flying the milo field south of our yard late last Summer and early fall. I cringed and stood in the middle of my apiary as he did fly over with each pass. This farmer in particular is not too careful. I then contacted another farmer friend who calmed me down. He said honeybees are pretty tough. Same farmer told me to register my hives on a place called bee check. I did that when I first put them in. It is a place where pesticide applicators should be checking before spraying. It goes with field check and drift watch.

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Thanks Daryk, I find it hard to believe that as many forum members that belong here there are not more that have dabbled in the hobby.

You are spot on about the "bee line". I was fully aware of the flight path that day. Two places they were working. The Ozark witch-hazel has been blooming and I have done some light sugar water feeding. I am not sure if they are getting any nectar out of the witch hazel but carrying pollen to the hive big time. So, I did attempt to avoid the path. IT is going to warm up today and I suspect they will be out and about. The third hive build is outside. Need to clearcoat the artwork on the outside. When it dries will set it in place. Traps will be put out in selected places where swarms were caught last season. Plus am going to build some Russian Scions and hang around the bee yard (wish me luck). Maybe make it easier to collect swarms out of our existing hives.

Good job Pete thanks for sharing. Jerkbait, fly or Jig? Details please.

I would like to start a beekeeping thread here on general chat. I know @jdmidwest are beekeepers. He is very knowledgeable on this subject, and I am not but learning fast. He and I do different types of hives. I am hoping we have other members that are doing the same and we could all share what we know and don't know. Another resource we could have on here for Ozarks Anglers. As we have come to know this community is not just fishing here. Lots of complaints have come and gone about this place not being all about just fishing but there is more to life than fishing believe it or not. I appreciate the food, gardening, Hunting and other things attached to the community. If I don't get any input, I will let this die. I don't want to be talking to myself in public. I can do this by myself like I do daily Bee stings included. My existing girls have been kind of grumpy. Warm days I go out to hives and watch them. If I get too close, I am getting pinged on the shaved shiny head. Not been stuck yet but it's going to happen.

Good story, BUT have you caught one by the tail? They can sure kick and it's hard to hang onto them. Then Pat has taken one out with a metal cross arm brace and I doubled up with two as I went Samauri on them with a machete. Yes, they have very poor eyesight but if you sneak in slow and don't hit the ground hard with your foot or get in the front of their line of travel you can get on top of them. I did notice something neat. When we had the peak years of Japanese beetles out armadillos were at a peak too. The extension office located at our courthouse told me after a couple years the beetles would taper off but never disappear. So, when the beetles settled down so did the armadillo. Makes sense I would move too when my food was gone. Way less now on roads too. No free pass here if they show up.

Well shoot Is right, Heal back up.

OOps will happen but less and less as you go forward. I still oops. Another tip less is more in tying. We as tyers sometimes tend to overdress.

Thanks Anthony!

Her pancakes are the bomb!

Think I will get wiser and say quit cooking them wrong! 😁

At least they are not mushy or creamed. That is where I draw the line.

Correct, A line crew, serviceman or troubleshooter out on an outage shudder at the sound of a home generator. Those transformers that give you useable voltage into your house can and will work in reverse too. Nothing worse than a hack trying to hook a generator to his fuse box.

You and me both buddy. Have not had a problem with overcooked squirrel from pressure. Key is to label your squirrel by age and when you do a batch match them and time accordingly.

I would be for that if we could avoid a Chernobyl or Fukushima. I realize both fossil and Nuke can have environmental impact, but I would say lives lost with nuclear disaster would be much higher?