Top Bar Hive With Langstroth Frames

You will need minimal skills to build this beehi.

Top bar hive with langstroth frames. The bees move in a systematic way from one end of the hive to the other filling up the bars with comb. How to make a top bar beehive that will work with langstroth frames. Long langstroth hive this hive is desgined to have all the positive qualities of a top bar hive and none of the drawbacks and also to have the advantages of standard equipment which makes the frames transferable from a traditional langstroth deep or nucleus hive. Langstroth s patent of 5 october 1852 adopted 3 8 inch 9 5 mm between the side bars of a frame and hive wall and also reserved rights to use the distance 1 2 inch 13 mm between top bars and inner cover the latter of which represents a gap larger than optimal.

If your ultimate goal is to get the bees into a top bar hive from a langstroth nuc or langstroth hive you can cut the bottom and sides of each langstroth frame off and using the falseback as a guide cut through the comb to make it the same angle as the top bar hive. The term bee space was coined later than langstroth s 1852 patent. Easy woodworking skills and free plans. While the langstroth hive is vertical the top bar beehive is horizontal.

This tapered shape provides the correct distance between frames and allows for the proper bee space around and in between the frames so that bees can travel freely and so they.