# The power of a strong hive **URL:** \ **Category:** General Bee Chat\ **Created:** [December 8, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/the-power-of-a-strong-hive/23978 "2019-12-08T00:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Semaphore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/semaphore/32/14994_2.png) [@Semaphore](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Semaphore)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/the-power-of-a-strong-hive/23978/7 "2019-12-09T05:55:30Z")
Peter- single brood _only_. And this was verified by the Guinness Book of World records. Aebi (I spelt it wrong above) and his son were great beekeepers, loved bees and wanted the record for fun is my guess. Certainly would have helped sell books too. Though they hold the record others have exceeded it- notable in Western Australia in the 1950’s. Before we knocked a lot of the forests- fools that we are. Reading how they managed 5 supers on a single brood is interesting and the methods is similar to what this forums own @Doug1 from canada achieves in his short season with 5 flow supers on a single brood box… !! Though he uses two queen hives. Complex stuff. > [@Folks running enough Flow Hives to market honey](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/folks-running-enough-flow-hives-to-market-honey/16859): > > Just would like to hear about beekeepers using Flow Hives in numbers that can produce enough honey to supply larger markets…i.e. 10 to 50 hives. What challenges have you faced with Flow Hive equipment and what innovations are you incorporating to make your sideline viable? After 3 seasons of use, our experience is that the bees really like to store honey in those FH frames…and we are continually comparing them to traditionally run hives. And we’ve played a bit with manifold… > **[Ormond Aebi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormond_Aebi)** > > Ormond R. Aebi (February 10, 1916 – July 19, 2004) was an American beekeeper who was reported to have set the world's record for honey obtained from a single hive in one year, 1974, when 404 pounds of honey were harvested, breaking an unofficial 80-year-old record of 303 pounds held by A. I. Root. Together with his father Harry, the Aebi's wrote two books on beekeeping: The Art and Adventure of Beekeeping (1975) and Mastering the Art of Beekeeping (1979) (both currently out-of-print). > Aebi held ... --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/the-power-of-a-strong-hive/23978)._