A smoker is used to calm the bees in a honey bee hives to do that you burn things like washed burlap. When you get a smoldering fire going its hard to put out. That's what I use the chair for. First take the chair and rip the back off. you only need one of the back rails.
Then pull one of the rails off the chair back. The hard wood makes a good stopper.
Now take the raill and cut the end off to make the stopper.
Now you can use the end of the rail as a stopper to put out the fire in your bee smoker when you are done with it.
Now find an old hard drive like this one.
Now take the top off the hard drive so you can make your hive tool holder.
Inside you will find some very strong magnets this is the only part you need out of the drive. You might have to grind down the bracket so its flat.
Do NOT get the magnets close to each other or they can come to together with enough force to shatter them. they work better if they are in one peace!
Although the old Bee smoker still works its almost rusted through in spots so I got a stainless steel bee smoker this time.
Well take a magnet harvested from the old drive and glue it to the back of the bee smoker with JB Weld epoxy. You can see I placed the magnet on the side of my old bee smoker on my new bee smoker I placed it in the middle so it will be out of the way when using the smoker left handed.
I placed this magnet low on the bellows so I have leverage on the Hive tool to remove it easily. They are very strong magnets. I don't worry about the looks of the glue it will be covered in Propelis soon enough.
There you have it my new bee smoker is ready to use. The cost of my bee smoker mods was a whopping $0.00 dollars. Got the hard drive from a junk pile at a ham fest and the chair from someone that was throwing it away.
My new bee smoker ready to work some bees like this Hive.
This bee hive was rescued from a valve box and is doing well with a new queen and Hive to live in. If you have a honey bee hive like this one Email me...