New beekeeping with AZDuffman

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Fabricating ,wrecking, or salvaging at speed.

Love the sawzall for access in lousy positions. Down in boat bilge's. Reaching out doing wrecking work, making one handed, but not fine cuts. Band saw blades are expensive if you tweak them, sawzall blades are cheap.

I love them as well. Learned to love chop-saws more, but demo is fun. I was mainly surprised that you would use a saws-all for such detail work that you needed to lubricate it.

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I love them as well. Learned to love chop-saws more, but demo is fun. I was mainly surprised that you would use a saws-all for such detail work that you needed to lubricate it.

It just helps stop it from binding.

There is a product known as Bee's Wrap....
Organic cotton muslin cloth infused with bee's wax.

Might be a profitable side line too, but the term itself seems to be a registered copyright.

It is used the way Saran wrap might other wise be used.

There is an ice cream shop that sells honey sweetened ice cream, and includes a piece of comb as a topping/garnish. I hear the wax doesn't taste too good though.

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There is an ice cream shop that sells honey sweetened ice cream, and includes a piece of comb as a topping/garnish. I hear the wax doesn't taste too good though.

Its the adventure perhaps. I'm sure it sells well.

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There is an ice cream shop that sells honey sweetened ice cream, and includes a piece of comb as a topping/garnish. I hear the wax doesn't taste too good though.

You could chew wax in candy as a kid. But I don't know what kind of wax they used, or how they made it. Just kind of tasteless once all the other flavor was out it. I don't know that I've ever tried beeswax stripped of all other material.

They used to sell little wax soda bottles filled with a flavored syrupy liquid of some sort. Each bottle was like the size of a stick of gum. I never knew if you were supposed to chew up the whole thing in your mouth, or bite the top off the bottle and suck the liquid out, then throw it away.

Apparently, they still sell them. I am sure the wax is not from a bee hive though:

Superbug zapper = Pheromone from Queen Honeybee plus Common Nutrient.

All them bugs resistant to every known antibiotic can't match wits with the Queen Bee's pheromones.

By 'bug' I mean microbe.(bacterium)
Bu 'superbug' I mean one that is resistant to virtually all our currently available antibiotics.

Really guys, I thought this would provoke some discussion about profits of keeping bees.

I was wondering how much space you would need to put in a beehive and is it safe in regards to people paying in the general vicinity of one?

Back yards, the size of postage stamps, can hold them as can roof tops... by postage stamp, I mean the common small house for workers .... forty feet by twenty feet .

Safe? I'd take out insurance but it seems safe enough.

Most of those Africanized incidents are rumors or are based on vibration such as pumps or the like.

Schools, public housing cottages and public gardens such as Seattle's P Patch system often have a set of hives with someone making money on the honey. I think its strawberries that require bumble bees to be fertilized.

Some bee hives are even architecturally disguised which I think is a terrible mistake.