Overwintering in really shallow TBH

[beenovice]

I was thinking of trying putting bees in really long tanzanian, let's say 5 feet and really shallow hive of shallow super depth.
I was wondering how would they overwinter since it is really small height for cluster and they would have to cluster more in lenght.
But bees would quickly decide where to go from the beginning in hive of this design I think.

[buckbee]

I was thinking of trying putting bees in really long tanzanian, let's say 5 feet and really shallow hive of shallow super depth.
I was wondering how would they overwinter since it is really small height for cluster and they would have to cluster more in lenght.
But bees would quickly decide where to go from the beginning in hive of this design I think.

That seems like an odd thing to want to do. If you think about the bees trying to make a heated, spherical cluster, putting them on shallow frames is making it unnecessarily difficult for them, IMO.

[Michael Bush]

I think you're really compressing the cluster. A medium already does somewhat. A round cluster is less surface area.