Bee Equipment Essentials

What a great book, that came along at the perfect time for me!Ed (the author) spoke at a meeting for the beekeeping club I below to this past spring. As an engineer, I really gravitate to Ed's "Keep it simple stupid" approach to building beekeeping equipment. No time wasted here on fancy joints that eat away your efficiency. Simple, straight forward instructions for building the basic hive parts and functional ancillary tools as well.My abilities as a woodworker could be described as intermediate, and I was able to quickly build several 5 frame nucleus hive bodies, nuc supers and covers, based the book. In the following weeks, I was able to crank out some medium hive bodies, bottom boards and inner covers.The author's "Super Jig" is a great tool to create repeatably, square boxes and is the heart of following his methods described in the book.Highly recommended for the beekeeper who wants to build his own equipment in an efficient and simple manner.

Very useful information

Great book, easy to follow and very thorough.

Price little high for information in book

Good beginning book for helping me to get my apiary started.

Well written and covers a variety of bee furniture. The instructions are pretty clear (a few you have to pay close attention to). Also has good ideas for simple ways to solve common bee keeping problems.

A great book but most of this is available online. No plans for migratory pallets or covers.

The book saves allot of time when making boxes. I no longer have to figure out the dimensions; then cut. The box making directions are clear.