National Hive Stand with Landing board

[Otleybee]

Does anyone have a plan or sketch of a stand for a National Hive which incorporated a landing board?

I am keen to make my own but dont really want to invent it!

 

[oliver90owner]

Most landing boards are associated with the floor, not the stand.

RAB

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Most landing boards are associated with the floor, not the stand.

RAB

At the risk of contradicting RAB, I'm not sure thats necessarily the case. Thornes for example sell landing boards by themselves or on a set of legs.

 

[oliver90owner]

No fear of contradiction. I said 'most'.

Regards, RAB

 

[BobH1]

Most landing boards are associated with the floor, not the stand.

RAB

T*****s do what they call a "Sloping hive stand", their illustration looks clear enough to copy.

 

[Otleybee]

Ok I get it. I will just build the hive stands shown on Dave Cushmans site and adapt the open mesh floor to put a landing board on at the front instead of the regular cross piece.

 

[BKF Admin]

Why not make them seperate?
I do all mine..

 

[drex]

I have made stands from Dave Cushman's plans, but modfied the top side rails to extend beyond front of hive, and cut them sloped. I then screw onto that slope a batten to lift the actual landing board up to be level with hive entrance, and run the board across from slope to slope. Thickness of batten depends on design of floor, and thickness of landing board. Hope you can follow.

Worked perfectly last year