Blueprint Top Bar Beehive Plans Pdf

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Blueprint top bar beehive plans pdf. Drawings for a proposed standard top bar and for a hive design that uses it. Pollen collectors are a useful means of gathering surplus pollen either for one s own use or for drying and storing for the bees in case of dearth. This design is in vertical section and has around four boxes along with floor top bar cover cloth roof eaves vent and ridge vent. Electronic copies of the drawings are available in adobe portable document format pdf which can be printed on standard 8 1 2 by 11 inch paper.

The second option is a set of physical drawings of the plan plus the necessary hardware to put the hive together. The wood used in this design is timber which can go well all around the year. Attach each follower board to a top bar 5mm from one edge of the top bar. We make the designs and drawings freely available for use by other beekeepers or for commercial production.

Customers lauded the plans as being easy to read and follow. 3 the people s bee hive plan in pdf by david heaf. This is the bee hive plan for building a vertical top bar hive. Hive design movable comb top bar top bar hives are easier and cheaper to make than frame hives yet have some advantages of movable comb technology.

The first is detailed schematics via pdf download. Rip a small channel down the centre of the remaining 29 top bars. And rip each length into 3 top bars. A landing board say 6 wide by 2 deep and 3 4 thick could be added just below the central entrance holes using a thin piece of wood as a support.