Skyscraper Hive.

[Millet]

Whats the point in this as i can imagine it being hard work to work with.

 

[Poly Hive]

Never seen anything so unstable.

Why have such a tall stand?

Personally the highest I get and it is awkward when it happens is a double brood with four supers on it. Usually also a clearer board to reduce it back to three and that is more that tall enough.

PH

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

there's being a bit daft and therre's looonacy. Struggle enough with two brood boxes and half a dozen supers on an 18" stand

 

[Millet]

Here is another one for you.

 

[B+.]

Here is another one for you.

Where is that one from Millet? They look like Lanstroth boxes but I doubt they're in the UK as any OSR honey would granulate rock hard by the time all of these supers were harvested. Maybe its not a problem in areas where there is no OSR but the stack is a bit too high for comfort

 

[Millet]

Where is that one from Millet? They look like Lanstroth boxes but I doubt they're in the UK as any OSR honey would granulate rock hard by the time all of these supers were harvested. Maybe its not a problem in areas where there is no OSR but the stack is a bit too high for comfort

New Zealand i think.

 

[dpearce4]

when I saw the title I thought it might have been about this book.

http://www.moraybeekeepers.co.uk/book-author/dugat-father/

a very interesting system. would be fun to run one hive like this just to see how it worked having read the book. But not a job for this year for me I think.

 

[bpmurray]

Have you seen the rose hive movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZ-5AjXfHE

 

[madasafish]

Those are not hives.. they are piles for skyscraper foundations.. just waiting to be inserted further into the ground..

 

[Swarm]

I suspect a few of the stacks are just spare boxes, of course some beeks like to show off as well.

 

[Robbo8916]

Have you seen the rose hive movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZ-5AjXfHE

What a lovely house!

I'd be very worried about dropping the top box trying to put it back on!

 

[snelgrove]

Hard to believe that all the boxes are full of bees and being worked.
You get two supers on here and it's a good season

 

[Millet]

I suspect a few of the stacks are just spare boxes, of course some beeks like to show off as well.

I thought the same but if you look close you can see bees on 2 of them.

 

[Poly Hive]

Little bit of exaggeration surely Snelgrove? Is the forage that poor?

If it truly is then migrate about a bit?

PH

 

[Zante]

Hard to believe that all the boxes are full of bees and being worked.
You get two supers on here and it's a good season

Well... even if you do get more than two supers of honey in a season, wouldn't you harvest once you get to putting a third super on? Even just for convenience's sake when doing an inspection.

 

[snelgrove]

Well... even if you do get more than two supers of honey in a season, wouldn't you harvest once you get to putting a third super on? Even just for convenience's sake when doing an inspection.

it was said in jest, lighten up will you

 

[Zante]

it was said in jest, lighten up will you

Sorry, sorry...

I'm still new here, both in beekeeping (so I don't know what to expect quantity-wise) and on the forum (so sometimes humour flies over my head, not knowing having a feel for the forum)

 

[snelgrove]

Sorry, sorry...

I'm still new here, both in beekeeping (so I don't know what to expect quantity-wise) and on the forum (so sometimes humour flies over my head, not knowing having a feel for the forum)

that's ok I might have been a bit abrupt with you, had a bad day sorry

 

[Zante]

that's ok I might have been a bit abrupt with you, had a bad day sorry

No worries.

Still, those hives are piled very high, so the owner hasn't harvested them as I mentioned.

... unless the supers have been piled up from many many hives onto fewer hives waiting to be collected by a truck to be harvested?

 

[snelgrove]

as soon as a super is full and capped I would remove extract and put back on. especially with oil seed ****. normally be for its capped.