This four of my five hives next to my pond n waterfall… Gerald 
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My backyard hives. Like I said in my bio, I can’t remember not having hives around BUT these ones have taught me more in the past few years that the others over the past 60 years.
Cheers
Rob.
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Looks really nice @jdcw, but you appear to have the flow box facing the wrong way. There might be a lot of bee traffic when you come to extract.
The back of the SBB can look like that in certain light, @Sting. It looks like the photo is of the back of the hive.
Our bee club’s nuc yard. I just finished cutting the grass.
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Just Reorganised my bee Stands. Lots of Wisteria and Green Alkanet
Crystals Hive
1 empty
2 Nuc Diamond’s walk away Split
3 empty
4 Sapphire returned home after shook swarm
5 Shook swarm 2nd half with Flow Frames on
6 Flow Frame 1 Flow Frames filling up
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Updated hive set up.
I need to do a little weed whacking.
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Hey Valli !
Thankz for posting ! Nice to see your setup ! Looks good. Now I can envision your set up when you post ! Gerald
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Do you plan on adding supers if so what will the height be then and will you be able to work and inspect as you build on the hive upwards. Will the weight be to much for you to work with. Lower you can handle the load. Super full of honey weight? brood box weight? I can only see one mounting bolt how far are the legs into the ground? I do like the shelf brackets to hold the frames.
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How long have the hives been on the stand with the splayed legs @Valli? Is it going to be strong enough when everything is full of honey as the splayed legs are structurely weaker than pillar legs?
Love your garden, ours is never like that, much dryer here.
Cheers
Rob.
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about a year - they are fine the ground is fairly firm there
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I plan to add 2x Medium 8 frame Broods and then a 6 Flow Frame Deep for my Super. The stand is about 22in off the ground and is adding 10-14in deep with each leg. There are plenty of bolts/screws holding the legs that I have no worry about 300lbs or so max load being handled.
Once fully built up with Brood and Honey it will be at a comphy max height for me to work. Wrist case it could be 2 step too high so I’ll put a stand around it.
Thanks for the questions and I sure thought those old shelf brackets were a good use. I’ve found myself settibg the roof and inner on them a lot when I’m just pulling and moving frames.
@Valli that was my thought too. It’s a nice looking set up, but it would be a shame if the spindly looking legs collapsed. The firm ground won’t make any difference.
@Sting it is a commercial Hive stand from a the bee suppliers - I have a second one but they are not as flimsy as they look - quite sturdy really
After a trip to Denver to accompany my wife and daughter for a kidney transplant surgery, I come back to Wyoming, and by its very nature of being a windy place to live proved itself anew. Here in one photo is a Cedar tree blown over onto 2 of my hives. Cinder block bricks make great weight at 35 pound a piece and are probably what saved the hives from being knocked over completely.
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Wow, Tony - dramatic events all around! Hoping wife & daughter are well 
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Thank you Eva. Both patients are recovering remarkably fast. My wife says she is ready to go back to work but I want her to wait a couple of more weeks just to be sure. Daughter who got the kidney is on top of the world. No more dialysis and is able to eat what she wants.
As for the cedar grove it will eventually all e cut down and replace by an apple orchard, at least that’s the plan my rancher friends expressed. I offered to cut down the cedars now if the would like me to, but it’s something they want to do all at once and not one or two at a time. I think mt bees would like apple trees better anyway.
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