One man's trash is another man's treasure 

You can always buy new equipment, but what you can't buy is bee smell. If you can get past the nastiness of old , neglected, and down right funky, bee hives, and don't mind getting a little bit nasty yourself, you've got for yourself some wooden gold.

That's exactly how I got started with beekeeping. Neighbor got his house foreclosed and abandoned it. He left an old rotted beehive setup in the yard. I took it home, pressure cleaned it, ordered more stuff and put a colony in there. Good memories.

My great mentor just gave me 4 old crappy boxes, one needs repaired. He also gave m a pile of crappy old frames he hasn't gotten around to ever cleaning and fixing after a wax moth infestation. I have been in my glory fixing and cleaning all this stuff. Bought some plastic foundations and I will running fishing line through some... whatever, I LOVE free stuff!!!

I Love that 🎉 I am getting some Sanford and son frames also 😁 it will cut down on start up cost. And give the new hives a lived in before scent. I did soak them in ACV to kill any mold or pest eggs.

I only bought 1 hive body and ended up with over 70 hives people giving me stuff and real estate agents call come get these bee hives off this farm we are auctioning off -- no one come to a farm auction to buy bee hives -- but if you see them ask the Auctioneer if he is selling them -- usually no competitor to bid against you so you set the price -- money is all they want .

man those are fantastic lookin frames for swarm traps

This stuff is very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Been told that ten ten ten is how you price used equipment. Ten for the box if it's in decent shape, ten for the frames, and ten for foundations if they're ok to use. That's a bit high imo but I'm not arguing.

"If it's free it's for me" J.M.

Thank You. very much appreciated.

02:00 "YOU WERE WARNED" in the background lol

Thanks! Very interesting video.

would this be a thing you could add to a healthy hive, and let them clean it off? Mostly thinking of the queen excluder/super.

You should do a video on all the stuff you have like extra boxes just to see what you have collected over the years

My first boxes look a lot worse, but 1/2 of the frames where ok to use. The first boxes served me well to make copies of them and for me to make new ones.

Free is always worth the time to repair.

That looked like a metal queen excluder.

I'm interested in beekeeping more to promote honeybees than to get honey. Every year in February / early March the local county fairground has beekeeping classes, and I'm always tempted to go. However, the area I'd consider using is inside the wife's dog agility training area, and she says "No bees that close to the dogs." There are places inside the fence that I think are far enough away that the human/dog/bee interaction would be almost zero, but that's not a battle I feel like having -- Momma happy, everyone happy, etc. Would a feeder like you showed in another video "bee" less of a possible annoyance to the dog training activity? Setting up a sugar water feeder would be easy in a far corner, and that would help the poor fellers out, too -- but if it were just as busy as a hive box, then that would be no good either. Would it be massed with bees, or just a few coming and going all the time? Thanks for putting up your videos, I really enjoy them.

He reminds me of John Goodman,

you were warned!???

DOVE tailed at that

I'm a new beekeeper and I'm looking for an explanation on why do bees form a ball just outside of the entrance? are they looking for a new home? or poor ventilation? Anxious about my bees..

yeah yeah yeah... bee bee bee... LOL, I LIKED the car hood message better than anything!! TJ

I'm Jealous, I'm keeping an eye out for free be's, no pun intended.

How do I even start. Love it.

Awesome!!!..If you took the bottoms off those frames and spun 'em around..would they hold plastic type foundations? (I thought I saw slots)

Cool vid my friend!:)

I love free stuff too. I would have liked to see how you did the clean up. Did you put out a vid for that?

Would you ever consider using something like this for sterilizing old hives? I wonder if they still smell enough to be good for swarms after. Homemade Steam Wax Extractor And Hive Sterilizer - RU-vid

Nasty man, nasty

''YOU WERE WARNED'' on a hood in the back there? hahahha why?

What's a Dirt Rooster any way.

Am I the only one who saw a mouse run out at 2:55?