Your TBH's Vital Statistics

[kawayanan]

After reading the thread on standard bar length (http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207592), I thought we should have a place to put your TBH's vital statistics. I was hoping to put this all in a poll, but it looks like the poll options are pretty limited. I'll put the questions here and you can post you info.

1. Straight or sloped sides? If sloped, what angle (degrees off vertical)?

2. What length of top-bars? (19" like a Langstroth?)

3. What is the width of your top-bars? 1 1/4 and 1 1/2? All 1 3/8?

4. How long is the interior of the hive? (and how many top-bars is that?)

5. How deep are your combs (height from top-bar to bottom of hive)?

6. What is the overall interior volume?


Since I have been planning a top-bar hive, I am always interested in the design choices everyone else made. The thing I keep switching back and forth about is the top-bar length vs. volume. If I keep all the other factors the same, it is between 19" top-bars (and a volume of 80 liters) or 21" (and a volume of 96 liters). I can't seem to decide between having the bars fit in a Lang or having a larger volume.

[Michael Bush]

>1. Straight or sloped sides? If sloped, what angle (degrees off vertical)?

I have both. I like both. I like the interchanability of the straight sided one since it's also 19" bars. :)

>2. What length of top-bars? (19" like a Langstroth?)

19" is nice.

>3. What is the width of your top-bars? 1 1/4 and 1 1/2?

Yes.

>4. How long is the interior of the hive? (and how many top-bars is that?)

47 1/4" 33 bars give or take.

>5. How deep are your combs (height from top-bar to bottom of hive)?

The KTBH is about 10 1/2" or so. The TTBH is 7 1/4"

>6. What is the overall interior volume?

I calculated it once, but I don't remember anymore. :)

[crazy hivan]

1. straight sided.

2. top bars are 19" lenght same a lang.

3. 1 3/8 " wide

4. ID lenght of hive is 42" ( 30 Top Bars )

5. Depth of hive is 7"

6. Hive volume about 90 liters about 2 lang. deeps

Stu

[MGBee]

1. Straight and sloped. Sloped 30 degrees from vertical

2. 19" bar length

3. 1-1/4" brood, 1-1/2" honey storage

4. 46 -1/2" interior length

5. 10" on slope, 9-1/4" straight side

6. Don't know. Mathematically challenged.

[Gregg Ogden]

1. Straight
2. 20"
3. 1 3/8"
4. 33 1/2"
5. 10 1/2"
6. about 31 gallons

[Wayne Miles]

1. Straight
2. 21 1/4:
3. 1 3/8"
4. 33 1/4" (23 top bars)
5. 10" (from bottom of top bar to hive floor)
6. 30.5 gallons

Patterned after BWRANGLER (Dennis Murrell) next best ever TBH.