Homemade Bee Smoker

Without smoke, it is almost impossible to work and tend to your bees or hive without being attacked. After having built the diy warre bee hive and the diy honey extractor, I still had one of the most important beekeeping tool outstanding. That was quickly remedied by building this diy homemade bee smoker.

As you may have noticed by now, beekeeping like most other hobbies, requires specialized tools. The bee smoker is essential for helping to calm your bee colony, when work needs to be done in and around the hive, including when collecting honey. You can easily make one re-using materials that are already lying around your homestead, instead of spending money buying one.

Homemade Bee Smoker
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Here’s What You’ll Need:

  • steel cans
  • plastic or leather material
  • wood planks
  • nails, staples, or wire
  • screws or wire
  • hammer
  • hacksaw, sharp machete, or tin snips.
  • wooden can
  • screwdriver
  • pliers (optional)

After gathering your materials, you can begin by creating a hole in the bottom of the can that will act as your fire chamber. Then you can move on to making the fire grate using the bottom of the smaller can. The grate should have holes in it that allow air to easily flow from the bellows into the fire chamber. The grate should also have at least 3 legs, to stand on when complete.

Next, you can move on to making the bellows using the wood and leather or plastic. They can then be attached to the fire chamber, making sure to smoothen out any sharp edges. Now all that is left to do is to attach the smoker cap. Altogether you will need between 2 to 4 hours to complete this project. Your homemade version, should work just as well as any commercially available one.

You can get step by step instructions on the Bee Keep Club blog, here…

How To Make A
Homemade Bee Smoker

You can watch the video below on $2 DIY Bee Smoker…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gT0EpA96c

You can watch the video below on How to Build a Bee Smoker…

You can watch the video below on Principals of Beekeeping : How to Use a Bee Smoker…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-181v7G7S8
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