Stand height for wintering poly nucs

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Best height for a open mesh floor polynuc overwinter

  • Typical hive stand

    Votes: 9 90.0%
  • Ground

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Pallet

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Block mesh floor

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Makes no odds

    Votes: 1 10.0%

  • Total voters
    10
  • Poll closed .
I do something a bit similar. Hollow blocks (very cheap but very strong) with paving slabs on top (or sometimes without). The hollow blocks allow a strap to be fastened through them easily, after which it would take something like a nuclear blast to knock the hive over.
I am tempted to get some of those blocks, that's a nice simple & secure set up.
 
Hives at my father in law's are secured for the storm. Very deep roofs and paving slabs go on top, probably overkill but pays to be safe round here
 

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I have voted for a hive stand but in addition I will wrap a skirt around the legs to prevent cold draughts blowing on the underside of the mesh floor as I have to leave the insert out to minimise the humidity.
Mesh floors are brilliant and the bees are able to control their own ventilation but a sustained cold blow plays havoc with the cluster especially the very damp winds we get from the sea in winter
 

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