A local business generates a fair bit of scrap birch ply, mostly 5.5mm, but some larger sizes too. I’ve been exchanging small amounts of cash for their offcut sheets (which are often just under 4′ or 1220mm square and therefore aren’t useful for cutting a second part from) and building various beehive parts from them (more later). In the last week or so however they’ve apparently cut something like fifty sheets, so today I nipped down there and filled the trailer.
I now really do have more than I have any idea what to do with, or even places to store. More beehive parts may well be a start, but only if I get more colonies this year.
I also picked up a large plastic sack containing perhaps 30kg of sawdust which I’m hoping will come in useful once I get the compost toilet into use (more later, again).