My Top Bar Hive
Here are some photos of my Top Bar Hive. This is my first woodworking, carpenter work but still I think hive is built to be strong and good looking ;) Bees are in from 27th June, 07 and I am still working out how to make some proper cover for beehive. Well I guess there is still time till winter comes.
Nice sets of pictures about your TBH's. From the look of the picture on Beesource.com it looks like the sides are straight up and down but these pictures are showing a small incline to the sides. Which box do you use the most or are you using them both.
What are the dimensions of your hives as I too have been searching the internet trying to pick the "perfect plan", which doesn't exist i believe, anyway would like to get the dimensions for your TBH and build them this winter and incorporate the bees to them next spring.
Have two Lang hives now but have started to let the bees build natural comb on a few bars now so that when I get the TBH built will have a head start on having comb for them to start laying on in the spring as these bars are in the brood chamber and are being used as brood comb right now.
Hope to get a start on the TBH later this month or next month and use the width of the Lang bars as the width of my TBH so can interchange the bars if necessary.
Would appreciate an answer of some kind to deanloper at hotmail .com
Admin beek on 01.10.2007. 12:08
deantn hi
The photos on beesource are of the new top bar hive which I made for the swarm I catched. The top bar hive with sloped side is sitting for better times since bees absconded. I was away when they absconded so I don't know what really happened. They went away with queen so I guess something was bothering them in that beehive. Probably too much space and open bottom board which people with experience say you have to close when you hive a package...
For the next year I am building couple of more boxes and all will have straight sides since I read that it really doesn't matter as far as attaching comb is a question.
Go ahead with TBH as soon as possible since it is really a pleasure to work with bees in this type of beehive!
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