In april, I had 3 way bypass surgery and was unable to watch my hives, and I had several hives swarm and lost two large nucs, and my problem was what to do with the supers, and like Michael Bush, I believe in only giving bees the room they need, and did not have anywhere to store the comb filled supers, so I put three of them on my long hive. It is not a top bar hive, which may be why it worked, but rather is filled with medium frames which are naturally drawn out, no foundation used. I checked them the other day and it seems that the box at the end of my hive where my top entrance is located, the queen decided it would be nice to lay in, and now I have a hive boiling over with bees, and two supers filled with honey as well as the horizontal hive. I have taken out enough brood and bees to make up three nucs which now have queen cells ready to hatch which should have plenty of time to fill out the hive before fall. I tried to feed, but they are bringing in nectar from somewhere (usually by July things here in tidewater Virginia are dried up, but we have had a lot of rain which may be the reason) and the bees are working steadily. The horizontal hive seems not to have missed the brood and the empty frames I put in the super is being drawn out and the queen is laying in what has been drawn, so it seems the situation worked out well for me. Perhaps because it is not really a top bar hive, the bees have more access between the bottom hive and the supers. I lifted the other boxes and they look like a normal langstroth hive would look like between supers and have not glutted the space with wax, so I am thinking about next year putting more supers on the horizontals. Before, I just let the bees fill in the horizontal, took a little bit of honey for myself, and I think I may have been cheating myself. When fall comes, if there is still a lot of brood in the boxes, I may be able to use some of it to sure up the nucs in case they need help. If not, I have two full boxes full of honey and a 8 frame box filled with brood, which I plan to take off in September, let them make a queen and if necessary, put one of the boxes on top for winter stores.