Thank you very much. It’s an enjoyable hobby.

I want one!

Hey I was thinking about you yesterday. Hope you’re doing well brother.

That’s great news. Please keep me updated on your progress.

@@18Bees we will.

😎 Cheers mate.

Make sure you text me a pic or video.

hey there. I’m also in the heavy equipment industry. good combination with the bees and log hives.

@@18Bees 🧡

We are thanks. Hope business is good and your family are healthy too.

😂😂😎

Awesome. What kind of mushrooms are you growing on willow cuts?

@@18Bees shiitake and turkey tail though buying some more asap for other cuts, keep posting! also check out( Inside The Hive TV) also doing awesome stuff.

cheers

Thank you brother. Hope you’re doing well. I’ll call you later today.

Hello and thanks for your interest in log hives. These log hives give the bees a better chance at survival because they are not treated, fed or opened. They are excellent for long term pollination. However, sometimes the logs will die out naturally or abscond like they do in the wild and thats when you can harvest honey. Here is a link to another one of my videos where we harvest the honey: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMpmfLaj39G-j3U.html Please subscribe for future updates. Cheers!

Fantastic mate. it’s hardly any work at all and the survival rate is excellent plus when a log absconds or it eventually dies out you get these long slabs of aged delicious honey.

Tnx mate.

Good morning and thank you. I have an excellent video coming soon on two beehives in two trees standing side by side ha gong over a church kindergarten playground. Unfortunately the trees have to come down but at least they want me to save the bees.

Good morning / afternoon England. almost 6 am here and we have light storms passing through. I made swarm boxes according to Dr Sharashkin dimensions and put brood comb in them. The swarm caught in Washington was transported 30 miles into Oregon. Once the swarm was installed (took several attempts because the queen kept coming back out and that worried me) I put the lid on and have not opened, fed or treated to this day. in fact I will go down to that log today and do an update video. I was there last week and they were doing great. the lid was securely fastened down with propolis which I could see along the seam. here is a link to Sharashkins website horizontalhive.com/

@@18Bees That's great:)) Thank you. Keith

@@keithlong7363 np mate

😂 actually some busy body in CA emailed me saying he called WA state to report me for breaking the law. 😂. I wrote back to him with a Covid 19 clapping meme. Hope you’re well brother.

18 Bees - Hahahahaha!!! People REALLY need to mind their own business... Sad state that our world has turned into a bunch of cry babies that can’t stay in their own lane... And OF COURSE THEY WERE FROM CALIFORNIA!!! Communist bums! LoL!!!

HI Elvia. You can put out hollowed out logs during fall/winter/early spring and hopefully bees will swarm to them. If bees dont swarm to the log I will install bees that swarmed to my swarm boxes or from calls I get about swarms.

Thanks for asking. The bees will either swarm to the log in the spring or I will install a swarm caught with my swarm boxes or from calls,I receive asking to remove swarms.

Hello and welcome. I like to try and put a small piece of brood comb in the log because that may speed up queen laying. If not they honeybees will quickly start building comb. As for attracting swarms I've used swarm box designs and advice from Dr. Leon Sharashkin. You can find his swarm box "how to build..plans" here horizontalhive.com/how-to-build/layens-swarm-trap-plans.shtml Swarm boxes should be placed in trees about 15ft up. Im currently placing log hives throughout Oregon and Washington and hoping honeybees find them. I'll also be using swarm boxes again next year. I caught 13 swarms this year. Hope that helps.

Only real advice I can give is pick logs that have already started to rot out in the center. Makes it a lot easier to hollow out. Also, leave about 3 to 4" wall thickness.

Well now don't you look silly. Most log hives are in urban settings and have been running for at least 3 years without collapse. All nests / hives probably have mites its the over management of hives that probably contributes to colony collapse. The extreme domestication surge in the past 100 years is a serious problem. I monitor honeybee nests in tree cavities in the wild and they do just fine. If you take the human out of the equation they do just find. If the human wants to commercialize the bee then you're going to have problems. GUARANTEED.

@@18Bees I do agree with you that there is likely merit to keeping bees in a more “natural” cavity rather than wooden boxes and probably things we don’t even understand that they do in those natural cavities in regard to moisture control and airflow, among many many other things were unaware of.