Horizontal Flow Hive - The South East Scarp Solution

[skeggley]

Hiya Terry, hows the South East Scarp going?

[SouthEastScarp]

Down here everything is in flower again. The hives are bursting with bees and honey.

[skeggley]

So mate, did the hives finish up bursting Terry?
Hope alls well.
Bump…

[SouthEastScarp]

Hi Greg, they didn’t. Burst, but only because I robbed them before the girls decided it was too crowded.

How did you go?

[skeggley]

Yeah, good season here, multiple harvests. Dry now though.
Did you finish up making HFH MKII?

[SouthEastScarp]

@skeggley

Did you finish up making HFH MKII?

Way to busy now I’ve moved back to mining, I moved the girls out of HFH 1 for the winter into a standard Langstroth brood box as the long hive was in my opinion too cold for them. HFH MkII will resolve that issue.

[HappyHibee]

Saw these and was wondering how you harvest your Flow Frames Terry. From the hive or out of the hive?

[SouthEastScarp]

Sorry for the delay. If you look at the southeastscarp solution thread you will see some pics

[SnowflakeHoney]

That would be this thread:

Horizontal Flow Hive - The South East Scarp Solution

I have been working on the engineering issues of creating a horizontal flow hive for some time and have the hive almost complete 90%+, only painting and cosmetics left to do. The design issues shouldn’t be underestimated, especially as my criteria required the ability to move the flow frames as the brood frames were expanded and contracted in the traditional manner. The criteria included: Flow frames at each side of the brood frames. Flow frames must be movable. Viewing of all frames from fr…

[SouthEastScarp]

@Horizontal Flow Hive - The South East Scarp Solution Modifications & Building Bee Hives

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HAHAHa… Thats what I get for not looking where I am…

Turn the key and watch the flow