This hive is the brain child of my brother. He is a just entering his second year of beekeeping and decided he wanted to build a monster hive. At first he is planning to have multiple colonies in this behemoth. At some point he wants one colony in here. I had to just shake my head and smile.
PS that is a deep frame in the foreground
Your kidding right??? Nucs are $120 a piece so he is going to waste $1200 on this? Cant wait to see how it survives the winter... 10 colonies down the drain all in one shot...
Well its been almost a year since you posted this... How did it turn out???
10 nucs were for this and his other traditional hives, so no 10 did not go into this big boy. Yesterday they put 5 packages back onto the dead out sections. The problem is that it is cold, but they should have stores. (His teen age sons did the install, as he is gone on a mission trip).
I agree. There was a man who made a 15 queen hive and the super was one peace that fit on top of 15 two deep hives. The super was lifted with a crane and a lot of eye bolts. lol
Well so far so good. Most of the installed colonies are doing well, if they make the winter some division boards will be pulled and we should be on the way to some large colonies. As a side note one advantage of the monster hive is evident.
Stupid bears. I cant stand the nasty things. Glad the monster hive withstood the attack though.
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