How to store 100’s of frames over winter?

[Cobbydaler]

My bee yard has grown massively this year. And it suddenly occurred to me that come winter I will have to store 300 + super frames.
many suggestions ???? Thanks

 

[Newbeeneil]

My bee yard has grown massively this year. And it suddenly occurred to me that come winter I will have to store 300 + super frames.
many suggestions ???? Thanks

Blimey you must have 30 supers on your single hive!!!

 

[Newbeeneil]

I made a rack out of 4x2 with ply on top, off the ground on bricks. I stack supers in piles of 12 with separating membrane ever few supers. I then strap them to the rack.
Sorry the pic is not good.

 

[drdrday]

Nowhere near as many supers, only about a dozen (at least until the Maisie's sale ), but I do similar to Newbeeneil. I stack mine on top of my folding stands, with a square of ply closing the bottom. I put a sheet of correx between every 2-3 supers (just in case of wax moth), and a roof or upturned gravel tray on top, all strapped together.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

My bee yard has grown massively this year. And it suddenly occurred to me that come winter I will have to store 300 + super frames.
many suggestions ???? Thanks

store them wet, in their supers stacked up with an OSB blanking board top and bottom then all cinched up tight with a couple of ratchet straps.
Then either kept in an open sided shelter or outside with a spare roof on top

 

[oliver90owner]

That is only about 20 boxes, if not self spacing - mostly shallows I’m guessing. One can store empty boxes under (or even over) colonies - as long as all the hive boxes are held together securely and thought is applied to the arrangement of those extra boxes and insulation. If leaving boxes with frames on/under hives, they will unlikely be troubled by wax moth if only, say, 5 or 6 frames are left in them (well spread out).

 

[thorn]

Blimey you must have 30 supers on your single hive!!!

He's got a ladder.

 

[enrico]

Two or more long rails in a sealed room. It is easy to slide them along the rails to check them. Works for me

 

[Newbeeneil]

He's got a ladder.

A 5m pair of steps by the sound of it!

 

[SWEET]

store them wet, in their supers stacked up with an OSB blanking board top and bottom then all cinched up tight with a couple of ratchet straps.
Then either kept in an open sided shelter or outside with a spare roof on top

Works well this; had a few boxes full of mould and pondered throwing them away, as a test stuck them on a few strong hives and they were pristine in days.