Changing Hive type

[Deux Ruches]

Hi Admin. I have asked previously if it's possible to have DADANT as a hive type. As there are now members with this in their profile, it must be there somewhere, please can you advise, There isn't a dadant selection in my "edit Profile"
Nick

 

[admin]

I will sort it today for you

 

[wightbees]

 

[admin]

It is already an option,2nd choice to last.

Its between Commercial and Other.

 

[drstitson]

shame...

i thought this was going to be a thread on the mechanics of switching from one type of hive to another.

i have built brood boxes that can take both langstroth and dadant frames comfortably and adaptor ekes to allow splitting from one into the other.

 

[Mike a]

i thought this was going to be a thread on the mechanics of switching from one type of hive to another.

i have built brood boxes that can take both langstroth and dadant frames comfortably and adaptor ekes to allow splitting from one into the other.

May be you could share with us your method and equipment used for any one considering some thing similar in the future. Would be a nice way to continue on this thread.

 

[wightbees]

How do you get on with the frame width difference of the Dadant. When i put them in a langstroth box and added a shallow Eke like you i have to make a dummy up as the frames are different width.

 

[Black Comb]

I'm running jumbo L/S brood boxes which take MD deep frames.
They take 10 Hoffmanns, I believe MD take 11.

 

[RoofTops]

Dadant and Langstroth have different width side bars but I don't think it makes any difference mixing them up in a box. The bees don't mind.

 

[drstitson]

dadant to langstroth and vice versa

Must emphasise that these options were knocked up in emergency situations whilst waiting for my own hive order to arrive!

shallow eke was just made using lengths of timber a few cm square that i had handy - tall enough for the clearance at the bottom for the dadant frames and wide enough to overlap both top of dadant and bottom of langstroth. only temporary so undrawn outer frames with outer gap. no dummy needed.

the D-L brood box was similarly made from some spare pine boards that i had handy (ikea casualty area bargains). from memory - don't quote me - 500x325 side boards, 300 high end boards and a strip of timber at each end to close the recess for the lugs. made to fit the frames, the sizes of timber to hand and the internal footprint of the dadant rather than anything more formal.

 

[Black Comb]

Dadant and Langstroth have different width side bars but I don't think it makes any difference mixing them up in a box. The bees don't mind.

So this means the double bee space between the frames is wider on a dadant?

 

[Deux Ruches]

Sorry Admin. the last selection I have available is comercial, and the last part of the word comercial is off the page. I have tried to adjust the box size, but that's not possible
Nick.