Assembling frames and inserting wax foundation, the FatBeeMan way. Doing the basics right sets up the proper foundation (pun intended) for healthy bee hives. www.DixieBeeSupply.com
I'm smiling the whole time you're instructing me. You remind me of my Dad, always yelling at me as he teaches me something new. You even resemble him a bit. I think that's part of the reason I love watching you! Great videos, by the way, Mr. FatBeeMan! :) Thank you!
HaHaHa! I know what you mean. I can even picture my Dad coming up with unconventional ideas that don't stick to the rules. He'd go around muttering to himself thinking aloud until he'd come up with a solution. People would criticize but it was always his that worked. Kudos FatBeeMan :-)
thank you friends for the video of making a professional beekeeping box, greetings from me a traditional beekeeper from Indonesia. nice to know you, sir
Watched a bunch of video's of building frames and installing wire or fishing line and yours is as about the best and simplest way to do it. I know it's and old video but still the best i have seen. 👍🐝🐝
Hey young man; I did the old fishing line install and every frame the bees destroyed the wax foundation along the fishing line. I went to plastic foundation. I'll try new line this year possibly with a starter strip and 2 rows of line for them to incorporate as they build down. Thanks for all your efforts helping us young ones. Best; Tom
Here we usuallu use some kinda metal conducting wire, and just put some current on it which makes the foundation melt straight onto it. Works like a charm
I'm not. This one made me cringe. I grew up in a beekeeping family and community. NO ONE would do it this way. I started wiring frames at five years old and could do 50 boxes before Grandpa would come pick me up to go home for supper. A frame a minute was my goal and they were all tight enough to play a tune on. He doesn't even know how to embed wax properly and he's delusional as he's using almost twice as much wire with his insane method. Saving expensive wire? NO. He's wasting it and doing a poor job as well.
I'm smiling the whole time you're instructing me. You remind me of my Son, always yelling at me as he teaches me something new. You even resemble him a bit. I think that's part of the reason I love watching you! Great videos, by the way, Mr. FatBeeMan! :) Thank you!
COOL! been building frames for years and got away from foundation when CCD hit, will try this method, fishing line rules wire always getting cut or pricked.
I'm not a bee keeper, but the videos are fascinating. Thank you for making me smarter about the insect that keeps in a wide variety of foods year round.
I am starting my first hive this spring,21. I decided to make an investment, an will learn many other skills in just bee keeping. They are marvelous creatures.
in my exp glued frames never start to get that side to side wiggle .. as dry stapled ones show over time. Good tip on breaking apart frames tho ... very rare to have end bars split in my exp ... but a good tip none the less. Making a simple box that'll hold 10 or 20 frames will REALLY speed up the frame building process too
Hey Don. Just starting next month on my bee journey so I'm learning as much as i can from your videos. Hopefully I could get some extra cash to donate. Cheers buddy - from Philippines
Jan Ray Mikelle Aninipoc Same here! Wishing you luck your first year! I'm excited and have been researching for 3 months now. I've learned the most information right here on RU-vid and have learned a lot from Don. There are a few other great beekeepers I like as well and follow now.
@ekkalars yes I do but only on a heavy honey flow. they are more likely to draw worker size cells then. I'll put in some frames in between the draw-ed ones just to let use up the honey.as I want more bees for making splits then making honey. Don The fatbeeman
Hello Don, love your videos, all are so informative. You mentioned making your own foundation. Can you demonstrate to us your procedure of making foundation? Thanks, Ron.
merci pour l'info de montage de cadre armé avec cire c'est très instructif pas besoin de chauffage pour fondre la cire alvéoles. je découvre une technique merci encore pour le partage de connaissance Monsieur.
this is amazing! i was debating trying to assemble a hive myself and saving $50, but this shows me it isn't as intimidating as it first seems. what might help with seeing the line is a blunt tapestry needle; i use them in knitting to tuck lines away, and you could probably tuck them into the hole like you do the bobby pin.
Hello Don, Greetings from England, I enjoy watching your videos tremendously, they are extremely interesting and down to earth informative. I try to help with conservation in any way that I can, I have few fruit trees and I grow wild flowers in summer. My hope is to keep a single hive of bees in my back garden for both pollination and re-introduction to the area I live in, it's pretty well populated here and I worry that people around me might have a problem with the bees for example during mating swarms, I realise how ignorant some people can be towards wildlife, so do you consider it wise for me to have a go at it? My garden and me are crying out to see honey bees again, I can't remember when I last saw a single one and the surrounding area would surely benefit from their presence. I was contemplating making up a top bar hive, but would I need to have two hives in order to keep them going or what? I'm pretty determined to do this and if you could give me a bit of advice I would be very grateful. Thank you and best regards. John.
I have enjoyed your videos and learnt much. I wonder what wood glue you are worried about? Never seen that in OH&S. Also, I use formaldehyde in ponds to keep down algae, it doesn't kill any of the insects, plants or fish or snails.. It is sold as a product well there are many, some use barley straw but they use formaldehyde. One which I use is called GreenAway. "Harmless to all species of pond fish and aquatic life." I have used it for years.
I have followed you for a long while. I like the common sense approach. This year I am finally out of brood foundation. Have lots of unassembled frames. So bought the foundation, and am assembling frames and foundation. I have exactly the same materials you do. I have reviewed the "cleat" with you and will several others. I cannot get any such a "nice" cleat. With a razor set up (just like yours) some say you run the blade down along the groove and off it pops. No it doesn't, or you just "break it off " with your fingers. No, it doesn't. I end up with these little bits and pieces of the "cleat" So I am guessing these is some trick you all do automatically, and forget to mention to us.
Hey Don, great video. Does the fishing string provide as much strength as embedding wire? Do you use this for brood frames only or does it also work for honey supers? Thanks
Hi Jeff. I agree. Have you tried to ask for donations? My pc and phone went down and I lost your number. Wouldn’t mind a catch up. I like Mr F. Beeman videos too. How’s the family?
thank you Mr. FatBeeMan. i don't raise bees. i got into your video by accident. Wish you were in the Philipines teaching carpenters how to make frames.
Howdy Don. I have an over abundance of medium foundation. Can I use it in full frames? Also, what do the bees do when they get to the fishing line? Do they just wax around it or do they incorporate it into the comb? Thank you so much for your input. Frank
Don: First of all love your vids and appreciate the knowledge being passed down; Im in México and about to start bee keeping. Now the question why not go with no foundation frames? just for the honey and time of saving? do you go with foundations to avoid work for the bees and be able to rob them more times?
Hi Don, Do you crosswire your honey super frames the same way? Also, have you seen any issue with the line cutting into the guide holes and creating slack? Thanks much for the videos!
I have a hive that is very strong, I put my suppers on and they are some what fiing. I when through it. I found that the top deep was about was about 85% honey, about all capped. the bottom deep was mostley brood and so on. So I moved my queen excluder on the bottom and moved my suppers down. I sell comb honey. So would this be an ok idea for a few weeks? I would of corse move the top bottom back after removeing the suppers. Thank you for all you do. new subscriber.
How do the bees react to the fishing line? Do they draw the combs out and work around the line? Have u a frame that has the combs drawn out with the fishing line, to see how the line works with the bees? I have found your videos very instructional
I'm interested as well! Was told with wire the queen would leave a X and now lay in the cells with the wire, be interested to see how she does with fishing like
Hey Don was wondering if you can write a book on bee keeping , make as long or as short as it needs to be, I'd be happy to buy one of your books in the future
