Super/Hive Carrier

[nantmoel]

I'm looking at a winter project to make a Super/Hives carrier, I have to carry both hives and supers a fair distance to the road. I was wondering what fellow beeks here had designed and made for the job. Can you please post pictures of your carrier, I was thinking of converting a wheel barrow.

 

[Tomlow bee]

No idea about hive carriers as i use a wheelbarrow which i got from homebase (other sheds are available). This is a build it yourself job but the key thing is that the pan is big enough to take a brood box and floor flat in the pan. I daresay if i strapped down a super on top, it would accommodate that as well. Has those puncture proof filled tyres which are necessary round here with the blackthorn hedges.

Stumbled on this by pure luck when i was looking fir something else having spent previous 6 months looking for such a barrow and always finding the bottom of the pan too small to take a brood box flat. No idea if homebase still sell them - they were an import.

 

[colinc]

I saw a cheap wheelbarrow with the barrow removed and a hive sized flat board with small lip attached that worked very well


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[Millet]

I have a wheel barrow frame as the bucket part of it has rotted away, my intentions are to put a flat wooden base on it with some lugs screwed in to accommodate the cargo straps ready for next year when i move one or two hives to the heather.

 

[colinc]

I have a wheel barrow frame as the bucket part of it has rotted away, my intentions are to put a flat wooden base on it with some lugs screwed in to accommodate the cargo straps ready for next year when i move one or two hives to the heather.

Remember to bolt in the right sized engine so you can use the motorway[emoji6]


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[Jimmy]

The apiarist website has an excellent article about a hive carrier made from a wheelbarrow.
Worth bearing in mind the weight of full supers/brood boxes when thinking of using an old wheelbarrow as your chassis.

I realise it might not be viable for you, but fully vehicle accessible apiaries are even better.

 

[Wingy]

Have a look at some of the trolleys from angling supplies some of the equipment carp fishers lug around. They tend to have large wheels for rough terrain and more balanced than a wheelbarrow

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I'm looking at a winter project to make a Super/Hives carrier, I have to carry both hives and supers a fair distance to the road. I was wondering what fellow beeks here had designed and made for the job. Can you please post pictures of your carrier, I was thinking of converting a wheel barrow.

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/401364301955

 

[Poly Hive]

FWIW I found a builders barrow, which are good for at least 112lbs worked very well for my out apiaries and the three moves a year. Home to OSR, from there to Heather and from there back home again.

Hive fit snugly and nice and easy to barrow over roughish ground. Personally I think anything with more tyres is a lot trickier as I proved this year using a sack barrow to move a heavy hive. If I could have got it into a barrow it would have been that much easier but I ain't as strong as I used to be.

PH

 

[Beefriendly]

Treat yourself to a Kaptarlift. Makes the job easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8iHg7U0HE
My only criticisms are you need to have it exactly vertical before clamping and the wheel base could do with being lengthened, it can be a bit unstable with a full hive on very uneven ground. But it has lifted and loaded full hives with up to 4 full supers with ease onto the back of my pickup...and taken them off at the other end, moved and positioned onto hive stands.
They do an all electric version which has powered wheels...might be a bit more than you wish to pay as over a grand.

However for the ultimate mover....https://youtu.be/oTQutI-1fsk

 

[DerbyBee]

I use a sack barrow. The lip is a little small but a piece of plywood first to extend the lip then the supers on top. Also I orientate the boxes so the frames run forwards rather than sideways, so when I tip the sack barrow backwards the frames don't move/swing much (don't want the frames to squish together and honey to leak)

 

[Millet]

Have a look at some of the trolleys from angling supplies some of the equipment carp fishers lug around. They tend to have large wheels for rough terrain and more balanced than a wheelbarrow

I got one of those for my lady friend when she has to trek across fields with traps and i fear the carp barrow would collapse and break with the weight of a hive, good idea though.

 

[Bee Bumble]

How about one of these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haE3_d_nMRc

 

[alfazer]

I'm considering a similar project and reckon the basic design of a (google image it..) "irish turf barrow". Not unlike a regular wheelbarrow but it has a flat deck which sits in line with the axle, or sometimes lower, so the centre of gravity is low; less likely to tip over and much easier to control over rough ground.
Made for hauling peat from Irish boglands. Generations of critical testing and it never changed much.

 

[REDWOOD]

Works well over rough ground having two bicycle wheel, took the principle from a golf caddy

 

[Finman]

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I have noticed wheelbarrow best.

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[Stiffy]

I use a fishing barrow mostly for most of my hive work. I did hire a powered barrow ( muck truck) a few weeks ago when removing supers at a hilly site, want one now !
S

 

[Poly Hive]

I like that Kaptarlift very net and ingenious but it fails on the double wheels for me. s I say a single wheel makes a huge odds.

Try using a wheel barrow to move an object over rough ground then do the same trip in reverse with a sack barrow. Much harder I find.

Years ago I had a barrow made that would pick up poly hives but the angle was too shallow and it dug in badly on the heather. The handles pivoted out so it could be pullrd back around the hive then the handles moved back in with lugs then located under the floor and up it went no bother but as I say just too shallow.

There is some good money waiting for a good hive mover for the hobby market.

PH

 

[Beefriendly]

I like that Kaptarlift very net and ingenious but it fails on the double wheels for me. s I say a single wheel makes a huge odds.

Not when you've tried it it doesn't, single wheel would be a major disaster with this design and heavy hive. If anything the wheel base need to be spaced slightly further apart. I'm speaking with experience of using one.

 

[alfazer]

Problem with having two wheels is that the barrow dips left and right over bumps on uneven ground.
With a single wheel the user is control and keeps it level; the bumps only affect it on one plane, not two.
So for a fairly smooth surface, two wheels are better, for very uneven ground I'd prefer a single wheel.