hedgerow pete
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Jan 26, 2009
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- Hive Type
- National
i am looking at playing around with a hive and a set of super all singing and dancing explosive carni bee, personaly i hate the flippin things and have no time for it at all, but a friend is trying to get me to start a more professional set up again so we will run 50 hives betwen us so thats a weekend work of inspections for him and a few hours for me, any way i digress, new hive style
i hate double drood boxs when the super is off i want straight in and straight across and out none of this double lifting and moving the queen about rubbish, so our answer? why not have a brood box double length this idea is going very much along the lines of the darlington but by having the box able to carry thirty frames that will equate to 235,650 cells easily out classing the double box of the national twice, ther now brings several questions and answers, to save on costs and re using of items already owned do we double stack side by side our national supers allowing eight per hive or do we tripple stack so we have basicly three brrod boxs screwed together each one with the suppers on top, dont go on about swarm control we wont need any nor diese or pests there are none to worry about nor the sighting of the boxs, the question is will these new super bees you all dribble on about will she work 30 frames accross or do you increase the frame size instead say to 2 foot long by 14 inchs accross.
and now over to you
i hate double drood boxs when the super is off i want straight in and straight across and out none of this double lifting and moving the queen about rubbish, so our answer? why not have a brood box double length this idea is going very much along the lines of the darlington but by having the box able to carry thirty frames that will equate to 235,650 cells easily out classing the double box of the national twice, ther now brings several questions and answers, to save on costs and re using of items already owned do we double stack side by side our national supers allowing eight per hive or do we tripple stack so we have basicly three brrod boxs screwed together each one with the suppers on top, dont go on about swarm control we wont need any nor diese or pests there are none to worry about nor the sighting of the boxs, the question is will these new super bees you all dribble on about will she work 30 frames accross or do you increase the frame size instead say to 2 foot long by 14 inchs accross.
and now over to you