Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Ugly Warre Boxes

Now that I have run out of the wood that I had brought back from Sweden, I took apart two old pallets. These are pallets used for delivering building materials and have been stood outside in the elements for 3 or 4 years now. Anything nasty that may have contaminated them has long since gone. Here is the amount of wood I got from two pallets.



I cut each piece into 35cm lengths.



Then I ripped each piece 3 times to true them and size them down to 7cm wide. Selecting the best for the long sides, cut them all to length. I glued and dowelled 3 pieces together to get 21cm panels. Cut the rebates in the short sides and made up 6 warre boxes. The dowels I used were made from the rebate cutouts. The end result is not pretty but these boxes are going to sit inside Layens outer boxes.



I made a mistake cutting the top bars! I cut the lengths too short. I had a senior moment and cut them 28cm instead of 32cm! Trouble was I didn't realize until I had cut and grooved about 60 of them! Luckily I used the pallet beams to make a batch the correct length.

4 comments:

  1. That must have been really annoying Norm! I wish I could do that though - I have an unlimited supply of pallet wood, but sadly a very limited knowledge of woodworking!

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  2. Mistakes happen - It does look good!

    Can I ask how many hives you're managing to date and how you're doing on catching swarms?

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  3. Thanks for the comments folks. CGF, the warre hives are not hard to make if you have a table saw. Coopvilla, it is not quite swarm season yet, look back at this blog March April last year.

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