Apiary

Trailer Bee: species, requirements and independent production.

When transporting hives over long distances most convenient to use a specially equipped trailer for bees.

Insects while moving much worried, and the operation requires compliance with certain rules, many beekeepers because it raises many questions.

However, it is fairly easy job, if properly prepare and transport the hives.

1. transport Training
2. Types of trailers
3. Self production

Preparing transport and traffic planning

Moving beehives includes four basic steps:

1. Sealing the bees inside the hive on the old site. This implies a relative seal the hive while maintaining ventilation. We need to do it in the evening or early morning.
2. Protection components hive from breakage while driving. Shaking annoying bees and if they can leave the hive during the journey, then moving into defensive position. To fix using clips, belts, straps.
3. Transfer, of loading and transportation. Hives heavy, inconvenient to transfer and full of bees roztryvozhenyh, so be sure to use clothes. Для швидкого і обережного повантаження оптимально використання навантажувачів – це можуть бути як звичайні автокари, and special devices for trailers Bee.
4. Unloading the hive and the opening of a new place.

When you move the bees to remote areas important to check the place and the way to it about a week before the planned move.

This makes it possible to assess road conditions, clean area, ascertain the presence of various obstacles and gates.

During this exploration can plan travel time and choose the place for rest stops so, to minimally disturb insects.

To prevent unplanned stops necessary in the transport and trailers hives be a place for these items:

• ropes or straps to secure hives, including spare;
• резервуар для води – для миття рук і заповнення обприскувача;
• extinguisher;
• rakes and shovels, to clear debris or get out of the pit;
• PPE;
• two empty, but fully equipped hive;
• equipment, need for povantazhennya and unloading hives.

Trucks and trailer to bees need to fully check the availability of spare parts and carry out inspection, as long delay in transit as a result can lead to death of bees.

It is also important to calculate loads and dimensions of the trailer with the requirements of the road.

Trailer of the hive, even if it is homemade, in most cases refers to agricultural equipment, requires registration and receipt of the relevant documents.

Risk factors and possible contingencies:

• injury, caused povantazhennyam and unloading hives;
• Mechanical damage to equipment or hives;
• excessive noise and light on slopes or where stops, concern bees;
• danger to random people, example, If bees are downloaded in an open trailer and for some reason roztryvozheni during refueling or parking, then roztryvozhenyy bee swarm can attack passers.

Кращий час для переїзду колонії бджіл – при температурі не нижче 10 ºC, at a cold temperature bees swarm together in any kind of impact or shock can cause separation of its parts.

Bees can not always go back and die. Insects carrying before departure, оптимально – у вечірній час або рано вранці.

Cool, rainy days are also suitable for short trips. At night, the road is not always possible time to see the potholes and bumps, it is recommended to move on good roads or thoroughly scout the way.

Types of trailers

Існує безліч варіацій причепів для перевезення вуликів – від простих платформ на колесах до трейлерів з побутовими приміщеннями для бджоляра.

The most popular are the following:

1. Cars bdzholoprychip. This one- or a two-axle trailer with sides, racks and space for mounting hives, which included 50 families. This trailer is considered the easiest of simple designs, as suited to any type of transport and to avoid strong shaking, despite its lightness. If necessary, it can be transformed into an indoor hall or tier bdzholoprychep.
2. Forage platform. It is a lightweight design with an open platform with racks for mounting hives in several rows and cars uniaxial trailer without sides. Головне достоїнство причепа – висока мобільність і мала вага. Some of them provided a sliding pad and racks for fixing it on the ground. So, hives after moving left to stand on the platform and can easily be moved to another location.
3. Pavilion. Simple indoor pavilion available, if a passenger trailer using a roof rack to put. There are complex structures with special compartments for drawers cassettes or hives individual frames. This trailer transportation of bees used mostly experienced beekeepers.
4. Modular design. The use of mobile platforms, which is rigidly fixed a certain number of hives, allows using lifting devices or jacks move the trailer or it, all families immediately, and not separately.

Self trailer manufacturing

Готові промислово виготовлені бджолопричепи часто представляють собою складні конструкції і оснащені багатьма спеціальними пристосуваннями – навантажувачами, lifts, devices for the evacuation of honey and the like.

Їхній головний недолік – ціна, so many beekeepers construct and collect these trailers with their hands.

Основа для причепа може бути будь-яка – одно- and dvuhosna, from the tractor or car, it can also be homemade design with factory chassis.

The main requirements for the design:

• provides for strong consolidation scope and protection from rocking;
• відстань між вуликами – не менше 10 cm for ventilation and air;
• framework should be placed parallel to the front board;
• All additional design elements (ladder, flap, compartments for tools) be provided in advance.

In the presence of normal passenger sides of the trailer can be relatively easy and inexpensive to make trucks for transportation of bees:

1. Preparing the substrate Trailer. Necessary to measure the size of hives and platforms, to make optimal use of space. The platform can extend or build on, to accommodate the required number of hives, but to move on the route must meet requirements for size, weight and other technical features, and vehicle registration. Trailers should provide maximum smooth running, adjust the spring and reduce its weight.
2. Frame or trays for hives. With plywood and wooden bars on the size of hives need to make the frame section. Some beekeepers best options for loading and unloading container frames to be 4-6 hives. Notch they will be directed in different directions.
3. Binding hives. To fix the hives and their parts used tape (steel tape with a shut-off device), belt (rubberized fabric hook) and Beehive (connecting parts of the hive) braces. In the absence of special braces used wooden slats.

При наявності причепа у вигляді будки можна зібрати свій павільйон – пересувну пасіку без необхідності розвантаження вуликів.

Make a frame for placing beehives. The optimal design will be two rows of beehives in two tiers with the middle passage.

For its production uses wooden sticks, steel Corners, plywood. Make holes in the sides of the trailer, to meet placements eye.

Carefully secure the hive so, to avoid falling or unnecessary vibration when driving. There is no ideal design trailers bees.

Depending on the vehicle, road conditions, beekeeper requirements and other factors can be considered as a convenient easy open platform, and specially equipped pavilion cluster.

The price of ready bdzholoprychepy can reach hundreds of thousand, many beekeepers prefer to make their own hands, using as a basis for tractor carts, cars, trailers and even makeshift design.

Many of them according to their performance and safety requirements in no way inferior to industrial designs.