JCBrum
Drone Bee
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- Mar 27, 2009
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- Location
- Birmingham UK
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 8 ish
I posted this in another thread.
Quote JCBrum -
Take a standard dadant brood box and copy it in plywood, EXCEPT, you add another frame and make it 20"x20" (508x508mm), to take 12 frames.
THEN, as well you increase the depth to 18" (460)mm.
Here is the result. - same as double brood 14x12, nearly 3x national deep.
AND you can use standard frames (nearly). - just take a standard dadant brood frame and lenthen the sides by grafting on the side from a dadant super frame. Then - you can use standard foundation by making up your big brood frames with a sheet of dadant brood wax with a sheet of dadant super wax fixed to it (melt the edges together)
All from stock size stuff except you need to glue-graft the side bars to make them longer. Probably Thornes, or someone, would make them longer to order anyway.
Would this do for your super-bees ?
Endquote JCBrum.
Quote JCBrum -
Take a standard dadant brood box and copy it in plywood, EXCEPT, you add another frame and make it 20"x20" (508x508mm), to take 12 frames.
THEN, as well you increase the depth to 18" (460)mm.
Here is the result. - same as double brood 14x12, nearly 3x national deep.
AND you can use standard frames (nearly). - just take a standard dadant brood frame and lenthen the sides by grafting on the side from a dadant super frame. Then - you can use standard foundation by making up your big brood frames with a sheet of dadant brood wax with a sheet of dadant super wax fixed to it (melt the edges together)
All from stock size stuff except you need to glue-graft the side bars to make them longer. Probably Thornes, or someone, would make them longer to order anyway.
Would this do for your super-bees ?
Endquote JCBrum.
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