5 Frame Hives?!?

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The 'baby' super frame on these has about the same area as a BS deep (so just a super is the size of a large nuc here).....two five frame standards in the brood box is therefore a big brood box (getting on for 25% larger than a National on BS deep, sort of brood and half). They have lot's of following, see the Paradise range also. 8 framers are also popular. I will be running some like this next year to try. They have their place.
 
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Hmm, don't we call that a nuc over here.
However, half a hive, surely half the price, half the number of frames, but then half the honey....?
 
Reduce, re-use and recycle -

Cut an old national Brood Box in half on the table saw and then screw new sides on to produce the bodies of two 6 frame nuc boxes. You should even have room for some sort of dummy board...

I made a couple of these last year and will be making some more over the winter. My thinking is that i can tier/super these nucs as RAB mentions - this will give me a bit more flexibility over the management of the colony e.g. let me get a Nuc onto 12 frames before they go into a full BB or just to give extra space and stores to over winter the colony.
 
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That hive makes no sense. It has no space to nurse bees. They surely swarm and escape.

5-frame boxes are good in wintering nucs and making nucs, inhabit small swarms and so on.
It is for temporary use.

You may do easily 4-frame boxxes when you split normal polynuc. The price is fair. 150 dollars is huge.

Bye a table saw 100 Br pounds and 2 polyboxes. Box price is about 20 pounds a piece.
In Finland box price is about 12 pounds.

Then make covers and bottoms from recycling materials. Good free materials are everywhere.
You may make frames too with the saw.

2 normal size boxes is so small space that you may winter one colony there or inhabit a new swarm. I have just now several 4-frame nucs. Their origin is mating nuc and I want to keep them over winter for queens. They are too small to build up in time that they can forage a real yield next summr.
 
Well looking through the other stuff for sale you find this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/QUEEN-REARING-TRAINING-DVD-MANUAL-Beekeeping-/160454040948

Terry Hester. Or Terry Hester ole boy as he calls himself who is part of the H & L apparently.

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I wonder if Pete wears a hoody and a baseball cap.
 
I've got a 5 frame nuc and as it was so full of bees and forage was coming in, it has a 5 frame nuc over - so 10 frames in total. The bees can move up as they wish over winter.

Also got a double 8 frame hive (8 over 8) which I would suggest is the smallest size worth having. It's wide enough to be stable when supers go on top and big enough for the queen to lay in.
 
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