Building the Ultimate Bee Hive Bottom Board.

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OK, so it's simply a solid bottom board, but with what I have observed from feral bees and the entrances they have for their hives, the combination of solid bottoms, as opposed to screened bottoms, along with a very small entrance to the interior of the hive, results in much happier bees. And once you've given the bottom board the protection of being wax dipped, it becomes the ultimate bottom board, at least in my opinion. I hope you got a few idea from watching and enjoyed it as well, thank you very much for doing so. God's peace to all, Mr. Ed

[brucekaminskimd]

Good morning Mr.Ed, Ms. Janet and I are very impressed by your skills. I do agree with you on the bottom boards. Well its Christmas time and we have completed our shopping and decorating. I want to wish you and Ms.Mona a Merry Christmas and have a wonderful weekend yeah hear 😊

[RickyYeldell]

Nice work. What a blessing to have access to that shop. Thanks for sharing your insight regarding bee preferences. More and more I’m thinking that we unnecessarily complicate beekeeping. Bees know best!
God bless you.

[thornehauser]

I dare say those are the nicest most well built bottom boards ever built. Built for a queen!!! Lol. PS thanks for the shout out. You even pronounced my name right. As always God Bless you and yours. Thanks for the great content.

[branmcg]

Professor Ed, I can appreciate your passion for bees and wood working. Have a great weekend. I'll pass on shop class today.

[Bibleblessings.Outop]

I enjoyed this one. I am envolved in lumber. And i have bees. That means i get my wood for free. Hehe.
I am on holiday at the moment wit the kids. So blessed to have 6 of my greatgrands together.
God bless. And wish you and yours a spesial, blessed season. Make it count.
God bless you real good

[Jeff_and_Jenny_M]

This activity is one of the things I look forward to in retirement. I don't have the time to make much of my own equipment, but I would like to change that. Wonderful video. Thanks, Mr. Ed and blessings to you!

[kamhoneybees]

When i came for a visit and we discussed woodworking you told me "build your bees and buy your equipment, not the other way around" and here you are building equipment.😃 I think you are doing it for the same reason i told you... woodworking is enjoyable and it saves some money (if you have access to tools). Thanks for another great video and Merry Christmas

[MERRLINN]

That's some heavy duty bottom boards! And a good idea on the entrance.

[ivotamm]

Great Mr. ED! Thanks for this awesome video. I specially love to see how you are bringing in your observations from hive removals into your beekeeping, changing some things. These small entrances almost blew me out of my chair! Great idea!

[ruralcrane]

Nice work as always, Jeff! I've got shop envy for that equipment you are able to use! We used to have a stand up shed at the local mill where we could buy lumber directly, but that's been gone a number of years. Miss it. Still, can make do pretty well with table saw and chop saw here at home, and buying regular lumber. Enjoy all your videos, have learned a lot!

[dennisbarney]

Great bottom boards, Nice shop, can I bring a truck load of wood over and spend a week, LOL. Thanks for sharing. Two of my favorite things bees and woodworking. see you Saturday.

[Phil_]

Always enjoy watching your finish carpentry skills at work! Bottom boards look great Mr Ed. God Bless!!

[diydarkmatter]

nice work Mr. Ed im sure the bees wont care but if they knew they might lol . hey god bless you brother and god bless the monks . my membership was a gift and i for the life of me cant remember the name of the nice person who gifted it to me . but if they read this thank you very much i enjoyed it . god bless you .

[yolandai.m.kelkboom-vos]

We love to watch all your video's, we live in Aruba and have 7 beehives, finely after 9 month of dirth no rain we have some rain, the bees are happy now. We want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Hope te see more videos in the new year

[brianbennett]

Enjoy watching you work. 😊. Thanks for the video 😊

[philaandrew]

Nice solid bottom boards. I prefer screen bottoms here for our Summer, often get days at a time of 40 Centigrade with 20% humidity. Come Winter I have slide in baffle boards.

[wpankey]

Those are so nice Mr. Ed. Too nice for bottom board. The bees don’t know how lucky they are! Merry Christmas.

[marksmith-ewir]

Great for the showing to get better Happy bee's 😊

[roberthilliard]

Good morning from Denton Texas and Brushpopper Bee Wrangling

[lambbrookfarm]

Mug up Mr. Ed, howdy from the lakes region of NH, where it's 17 F and cloudy. The fie is warm, the coffee is hot and I am working on insulated covers for 5 frame Lang nuc boxes. I got a metelbestos chimney to install in my shop and soon I will have heat out there, can't wait to move my woodshop out of my house and into the playhouse... my buddy Bart always called us carpenters ' termites'... Your bottom board design looks adaptable to use as a 2-way or 4-way mating box as well. Thanks for sharing... love your woodshop, take care, and have a merry Christmas!