Hive setup for brand new location and new owner

[NickBennett]

Hi all,

I am looking at my first purchase. People in our extended family are in the business but it’s my time to leave the hive so to speak.

I’ve been watching a bunch of youtubes and facebooks but I’m still to make a decision one way or the other…

Question: I know you can have a super and 2 broods stacked for extra space to reduce swarming but can you have 2 supers and 2 broods stacked? My idea is to tap between the two and alternate between to allow the black and yellow to keep food supplies up as well.

Thoughts… please be nice (yes I was going to type bee there but I thought I get kicked out straight away

Cheers
Nick

[Eva]

Welcome, Nick! Don’t worry, this is a nice place to bee. There, I said it

Our esteemed member @Doug1 runs double Flow supers with success. He’s in a vastly different climate however, so your logistics could be pretty different. Here are previous posts that mention it:

Filtering Honey

Hi Doug, as I’m not a honey connoisseur, what makes it “top grade”? Is it colour, taste, texture?

Extra super on top

Our Nth American cousins use multiple honey supers, including flow frames. They seem to have a very fast flow that they need the multiple supers to allow it to be collected, stored and evaporated to honey to maximise production. @Doug1 added some pictures and rationale in this thread. Filtering Honey It is also quite common to have two honey supers, or more, for commercial operations, and hobbyists, here in Western Australia on heavy flows. So yes you can and in some situations you probably …

[NickBennett]

Oh, awesome… definitely did some reading last night so thank you for that!!

I don’t suppose you know where the tutorials in here are do you?

Cheers and regards
Nick B