Memory Lane, 3rd May 2022: A double-decker xylophone

Ok, perhaps not 😀

At the start of 2022 I needed to make up a lot a frames for beehives, but storage once made up is a bit of a problem, especially as my bee shed was due to move any time. Then I was looking at a pile of stuff that was due to go to the tip and saw the side-rails from two beds that my children used to use. Had they been in a reasonable state of repair the beds would probably have been offered on Freecycle or somewhere similar, but these, err, weren’t.

Freecycle’s loss was my gain in this instance however, as once I’d dug out a few bits of scrap timber and some bolts I came up with this:

which perhaps doesn’t look quite as exciting as it does when “fully loaded”:

Wanted: Vertically-challenged xylophone player with four hands

In all it takes around one hundred frames depending on whether they’re self-spacing and what sort of spacing they use; not as many as I had made, but it did make quite a big dent in the storage problem.

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