I would much rather watch a high speed video with commentary than a person struggling to fill the time with pointless chatter. I enjoyed seeing another take on the horizontal hive.
I enjoyed the high speed build. No reason to spend 4x the time when you can explain it in 1/4 the time no problem. You are definitely comfortable with that staple gun. As a non-tool guy, it's gonna take me more prep work & time for my hives when I build them, also cause my CDO. Hope you put out an update after you paint them. Would love to see them out & populated. Good job!
We don't want to buy bees, so we have 10 swarm traps(check out our other videos) hung, in hopes that we will catch bees. We will definitely put out an update.
I like the high speed as well. There is quite a few of Us who can take a build like Dr Leo's and get it done, but it always helps to take a few mins and watch it done. It does save time. For this I thank you and appreciate the time and effort the two of you put in.
Charles, if you don't have a compressor, I highly recommend the Ryobi 18V cordless stapler (and other tools). They have the same parent company as Milwaukee and for regular, non-pro use, they last 2-5 years. Made stapling furniture, chicken wire, etc easy, plus they have a lopper, drill gun, brad nailer, blowers, and a whole lot more. All use same battery and charger.
Love the high speed also...saves a lot of skipping ahead that I usually do. Voice over saved a lot of rambling that seems to happen in live instruction videos. Would love similar video on the prep work of cutting. I know it seems straight forward but I always learn different tricks and tips that others use and I appreciate doing things easier if possible. We didn’t have a dado so we used other means to make it happen. I’m not a wood worker but I enjoy DIY and learning. In fact I make my husband double check my measurements often! 😂 Thank you for your video!
LOVED the high speed, can't stand watching every cut and screw go in at standard speed. Anyone can slow the speed they watch on the viewer anyway. Thanks for your effort in making and posting your work, very nice.
I'm about to begin my build from the plans. Watching your build is giving me confidence! Also I am very busy so find the speech run through just perfect. Thorough but done and done! So...thank you!
Very kind words! We are so happy to be helpful! You will do great! When you get it done, I’d love to see a picture of your finished hive! Send a picture to our Facebook page, if you are a Facebooker or to our email
@@BeldingHillFarms I sure will! Thanks again! I'm an old woman with RA. So it could be May before I finish! Lol! But like I said...feel like after watching you do it I can start now. ❤️God is good!
just subbed and thumbs - up, that is the type of hives i want no heavy lifting as i,m disabled, are you going to paint the outsides?, be strong, be safe, and be blessed
That's pretty cool. Small world! The plans are great. The only issue I had was not having the same size plywood available. I made a few small tweaks. Thanks for commenting.
This is great vid, I have the plans and beekeeping with a smile from Dr Leo nice to see it put together in Hight speed as I'm a carpenter just like to see things fit together. This will be my first year doing bees so looking forward to the build and the bees. Thank you for your build.
I like this design. I made a video on a design for a horizontal long beehive design with the option to stack 8-frame supers. You can do a search with those words on youtube to find the video. I think horizontal hives are the best.
I like the fast video. Just gives a quick overview that is easy to go back to. The long one hour videos are always hard to go back to find out what's going on.
I am a 72 year old female in Las Vegas Spring Mountains who watched this entire video. I have noticed the bees making hives in the natural peat moss shore of my large pond and have wondered what to do about those bees! I have been watching Doug & Leo's bee videos and may help save those bees by having my son build that beautiful horizontal bee hotel after I hang a bee catcher next Spring in the willow that graces the pond. My son will be the builder! Thank you!
I liked the video for a quick how it's put together, but just like you I would watch and enjoy a complete how to right down to the 32nd. Liked and subbed. Hello from the Kentucky mountains USA 👍
Thanks for the comment and we really appreciate the sub and like. Glad to have you along. It is hard to hit firmly in the middle, to make the highest number of people interested. Out of curiosity, are you a bee keeper now or are you researching? We haven’t used the Layens horizontal hive yet, but we did use the Langstroth and didn’t like them. We have 10 swarm traps out now, hoping to catch some bees soon. We are likely a few weeks behind you in weather warming up.
@@BeldingHillFarms I am. Langstroth hives. I have 2 3 4 5 8 10 frame boxes. I know and to top it off I have 3 different frame sizes. Shallow med and deep. Not to mention the swarm traps. Oh yeah I have one top bar hive too. I picked up a few copy's of his books. I recommend them all. Keeping bee's with a smile has more hive plans in it. But the keeping horizontal hives has better stuff but that's just my opinion. The Gilles queen rearing book is exactly what I was looking for. Also his garden and fruit tree books are great. Nothing affiliated just a fan. I follow a lot of Russian Beekeepers and their style and am trying to find a more standard universal style of equipment. I'm all over the place. Lol....adhd+Beekeeper. Thanks for your response looking forward to seeing your content.
Great Video, great plans, but the freaking measure units are the worst xD im from Europe and i have to rework the whole plans... Not just put the numbers into centimeters, i have to calculate everything new cause we dont get to buy the wood in your thickness etc.
Yeah, I live in Canada and the material I was able to get didn’t match what the plans called for either. I did the same as you and went through and added the differences throughout the plans. Even still, I felt his plans are very well thought out. Good luck on your build!
high speed is fine....I personally watch a lot of youtube videos of many differnet topics looking for the important info I need, I personally just use the left and right arrow keeps to move ahead 5 second at a time or numbers 1-9 move you along the video in tenths and sometime I just hover over the time bar and look at the thumbnail preview that pops up to find specific parts of the video that I think are showing what I am looking for.... but in your case the sped up assembly with the voice over is a good way to talk about what your doing and is very helpful
@@BeldingHillFarms sometimes I end up watching hour long videos from start to finish. This video interested me cause we just got done building four of our own insulated horizontal langstroth hives (if I make a vid I'll post a link), and part of the reason was because of the advantages Dr. Leo talked about, I was curious to see what his plans where like and how you constructed yours. I did ours in a very different manner for a variety of reasons, but ultimately it will perform the same function and I thought it the way you did it looked pretty easy
Same to you. Let us know how the hive and swarm traps work out. We have 10 swarm traps out, but it has been very cold here in New Brunswick, Canada. It has only warmed up the last few days. I'm hoping we will at least catch one swarm.
Can you show how you did the sides which hang the frames and how you got the bee space. The Layens frames have a lug of 20mm, so would need a ledge of 12 to 14 to hang off. How did you get this?
The ledge is made from the first inside piece of plywood. The inside piece on the two long sides is different height than the outside. This forms the ledge, the width of the plywood, which for me was 3/8” or 9.5 mm. Let me know if this isn’t clear.
@@BeldingHillFarms thanks for your response. Yes that's clear. So, whether or not you have to route, will depend on the thickness of the ply you use. Btw, great job on the video. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Wow this is amazing! Thank you for posting and sharing. This high speed is where it’s at. Was the perfect length and loved the narration, incredibly helpful.
Will be interesting to see how this works out for you. This summer I made a 32 frame horizontal Langstroth deep frame hive as an experiment and it was very productive. Make sure you locate it where you want it, as once the bees fill it up it gets almost impossible to move :) I suspect mine weighs over 200 lbs at present.
Thank you for sharing, very well done and appreciate the speed and explanations! I'm preparing to build 3 per Dr. Leo's instructions and your video has given me a little more confidence given my lack of experience but I'm still nervous about it. I've printed out, marked up, and poured over his instructions trying to understand the materials, tools and process so I can know what I need to buy, etc. What size staples did you use....gauge, crown and leg width? The materials list has "1" narrow crown"-does that mean 1" legs but what is the width of the crown and gauge? Is that what is used for most of the stapling? He also has "T50 staples, 3/8" leg (20""). What would be the crown on those and what are those used for? This will be my first use of a stapler so that has been confusing and I'm in the process of researching what type to buy-compressor or battery powered electric like the Ryobi so if you would have any advice on that would appreciate. I've seen some discussion regarding putting together the vertical plywood pieces and blowouts due to the thin plywood and some use 1" brad nails for that but you seemed to have no problem and it looked like you just carefully made sure you had the stapler properly placed. Thanks for the time and effort you spent on this!
I used pneumatic crown stapler with 1” staples (1” long) in 18 gauge I believe. If you are careful, you can do everything with the one stapler. Good luck.
Hy Dr. Leo, today was the first time I saw a video at the Amis guy. First of all I have a lot too watch the coming weeks, but you're very educatief . I do have a question de insolated hivers , do I have too take extra measurements we live in Morocco close to the Sahara desert temperature know are up to 44 - 46 dhr celcius and in the winter it can be pretty cold.. I like the horizontal hives as a European "Dutchman" I'm thinking about building the horizontal hives according to your plans. Thank you so much for this. Regards Robert
I like the high speed, I like the technical ...I see so many videos about this Layens hives .. i get very tried to see the slow-going talk .. Just get on with the video .. your speed and information were great .. different strokes for different folks !!!! keep up the good work ....
Hello from Saint John. I got land in Cambridge Narrows and plan to setup some Layens hives up there. It will complement my apple trees, and I plan to add some grapevines too. Maybe some hops as well. Not sure about hop honey, but if it taste hoppy, I'll make honey brown ale. I might reach out to you at some point for some pointers if you don't mind.
You are absolutely right. I just made a few minor adjustments to the plans from Dr. Leo’s website, but honestly, it is so close, I think following his measurements and using 3/8 is fine. It depends how precise of a person you are! Lol
Nice work you are expert... But I notice where is ventilation? Bees in winter produce heat co2 and moisture.. warm air oxygen ⬆🌡.. moisture co2 must go ⬇ if co2 moisture stay hives bees going to under big stresses.
I have 2 sheets of plywood as I’m only building one hive. What’s the best procedure to cut up the two sheets of plywood so I end up with all the necessary pieces? Dr Leo’s procedure shows a process for cutting four sheets of plywood. Any advice would be appreciated.
Sorry for taking so long to answer! I sat down several times to figure this out for you, but never completed it! (Too many things to do on the homestead, lol). However, I just found this new to me website and thought of you right away. Try entering the quantities needed per hive into here and let me know how it works. www.cutlistoptimizer.com/
The high speed is great, but only because the details (plans) are already available elsewhere. If someone wants the plans, they can get them. Someone that doesn't need the plans (already have them or not that interested) aren't bored by being forced through them. Just my opinion.
No offense to your wife on her wanting to watch this video, but does she build hives? As a DIY guy, i feel this is a helpful video that nicely omits footage of cutting the wood...which isnt helpful unless there is a special technique to be used.
I guess I have to make videos that would appeal to me to watch and I agree about cutting out the wood pieces, that just doesn’t provide any valuable insight, as long as you know how to use basic tools. I hope you enjoyed the video and with any luck, we will catch some bees in our swarm traps that we built in a previous video, but showed too much of the wood cutting. Thanks for the comment.
This my first time to watch your channel, so the cutting comment wasn't aimed specifically at you but rather a compliment that you have focused on what is helpful to someone assembling this hive!
ApexSun no worries. We are a very new channel and all comments are appreciated. We are mainly a small homestead and we are always doing many things that we think people may find interesting, but it adds a whole new complexity to video and make the video useful to people. We enjoy the opportunity to interact with other like minded individuals. Thanks for watching and thanks for the compliment. It is hard to know if we are doing a good job or not. I’m sure that will become clearer in the future.
I really don’t like it high speed....there are so many elements of the fine tweaking of what needs to be done that it is easy to miss...at least for me just an average person in the knowledge of building things. One thing I don’t get is the part with the vent holes. Question if a bee is on top of the top bars do they see those holes. Over the head space of the horizontal hive, you said. It appears when you close the hive that the holes would be on the side of the hive. Could you at least explain that part in slow motion. I am not getting it. Thank you.
Actually these holes are just over top of the frames and provide hive ventilation. The cover does not sit right down over the hive, it just sits about 3/4” over the hive.
, I really like the high-speed bill because some videos safe to drive on and on on the people make by doing it in time you want to see it at a slower speed you can always turn the speed Play Back Down
Standard Fiber glass insulation would work also. We just happen to have a flock of sheep and it’s possible you may know people with sheep also that would have wool. Usually unless someone has a very large flock of sheep, they don’t place great value on the wool. It is just something they need to shear from their sheep annually.
Thanks for the great video. The speed was good, at least for me. I have done a lot of wood working, so it was easy to understand what you were doing, without spending too much time on it. Thanks again, as I do plan to build one of these myself.
I still do not understand insulating everything but the top. Maybe it is because I am in Texas and the sun beats down, I put foam insulation under the roof of all my hives. If you put 3/4" foam insulation under the top then the holes can still vent. I plan to build the same hive pretty soon too. Just love the Layens hives. Great job!
I expect the top may need insulation in the winter, but the holes in the lid allow air to flow through the top. I don't pretend to know, as I have only used the Langstroth in the past. If anyone else has experience, please add to this comment.
During the winter, Dr. Leo suggests placing a wool pillow above the brood nest leaving enough space for proper ventilation. It’s easily removable in the summer when the heat rises and releases through the top vents. Works great!
Thank you for showing the full setup. Personally, I would have preferred a non-sped up video. I like seeing the full break-down, and the reduced speed helps give my mind time to process how everything is being put together (newbie here), rather than struggling to keep up as the video races forward. But I know a lot of people prefer the faster speed. I'm just one of those who are the opposite. Lol. But I thoroughly enjoyed the video! Watched it all the way to the end!
Genius construction! I was wondering if ply could be used somehow! Have you used this design before? Can the mites/shb/wax worms use the insulation to hide in?
I could have missed you mention that on one of Dr. Leo's videos, to use plywood that doesn't have formaldehyde. And that you would need to read the SDS. Just in case you want to build your own.
I LOVE the fast pace and informative method you are using. I lose interest with the videos who show and explain every tiny detail! Thank you for your contribution!
I would suggest that it would work the opposite way to keep them cooler in your heaviest heat. But like most things it’s trial and error, so try one no insulation and one with insulation. My guess will bee (pun intended), the uninsulated one will have the bees bearding on the outside in the hot days, when the insulated one won’t. Just my guess.
Thanks for sharing the process. The speed was just correct and your explanations clear enough. How do you call that little tool you use to allow the screw to be flat with the wood?
Excellent!!! Thank you for the high speed, and great narration. Subscribed! Keep em coming!! Maybe others who arent familiar with woodworking, would appreciate the slower vid.
Very helpful video. I bought one Layen's Hive from Dr. Leo and hope to make more. His instructions for the insulated hive didn't have pictures so this video filled in some blanks for me.
We aren’t only because we didn’t have any luck trapping swarms this year. I will though once I get bees in there. I am committed to Dr. Leo’s philosophy and would prefer not to buy bees. Although this video has been so popular, I may have to buy bees in the spring just to be able to answer peoples questions on the use of this hive design.
Do you sell the hives? Even just the parts? After watching your video, I feel confident enough to assemble, but I’m not ready to make such precise cuts just yet. Haha!!
Needs a safety chain and a few landing boards, but I really liked this build, out of 7 that I have seen. This box retails for between $400 -- $600 dollars with $110 shipping so you saved a solid $200 -- $600 dollars making it yourself. The screen at the bottom is not really necessary in most areas where there is not other bees within 3 miles of your location. Divider boards and feeding divider boards are almost a requirement. Bales of cotton rags from goodwill might be a good replacement for the wool if your don't have a herd of sheep nearby, or I have seen people use metal backed foam insulation.
I would much rather watch a high speed video with commentary than a person struggling to fill the time with pointless chatter. I enjoyed seeing another take on the horizontal hive.
Thanks for watching
I think high speed is the way to show an assembly type video.
Thanks for the feedback
This speed was great!
I agree.
Perfect on the speed
Thanks for watching
I enjoyed the high speed build. No reason to spend 4x the time when you can explain it in 1/4 the time no problem. You are definitely comfortable with that staple gun. As a non-tool guy, it's gonna take me more prep work & time for my hives when I build them, also cause my CDO. Hope you put out an update after you paint them. Would love to see them out & populated. Good job!
We don't want to buy bees, so we have 10 swarm traps(check out our other videos) hung, in hopes that we will catch bees. We will definitely put out an update.
I like the high speed as well. There is quite a few of Us who can take a build like Dr Leo's and get it done, but it always helps to take a few mins and watch it done. It does save time. For this I thank you and appreciate the time and effort the two of you put in.
That is great feedback and exactly how we thought people may use rhe video.
I completely agree. Great video.
Charles, if you don't have a compressor, I highly recommend the Ryobi 18V cordless stapler (and other tools). They have the same parent company as Milwaukee and for regular, non-pro use, they last 2-5 years.
Made stapling furniture, chicken wire, etc easy, plus they have a lopper, drill gun, brad nailer, blowers, and a whole lot more. All use same battery and charger.
Love the high speed also...saves a lot of skipping ahead that I usually do. Voice over saved a lot of rambling that seems to happen in live instruction videos. Would love similar video on the prep work of cutting. I know it seems straight forward but I always learn different tricks and tips that others use and I appreciate doing things easier if possible. We didn’t have a dado so we used other means to make it happen. I’m not a wood worker but I enjoy DIY and learning. In fact I make my husband double check my measurements often! 😂
Thank you for your video!
Thanks for watching
Good video, just the right speed to get an idea how it all fits together
Awesome, that’s what we were shooting for without boring everyone to tears. Thanks for subscribing!
LOVED the high speed, can't stand watching every cut and screw go in at standard speed. Anyone can slow the speed they watch on the viewer anyway. Thanks for your effort in making and posting your work, very nice.
Thank you so much for your kind words and for taking the time to watch and comment
I like the high speed as I have a lot of construction experience. Some people's videos drag on so long that I lose interest.
Thanks, that’s what we were shooting for.
I'm about to begin my build from the plans. Watching your build is giving me confidence! Also I am very busy so find the speech run through just perfect. Thorough but done and done! So...thank you!
Very kind words! We are so happy to be helpful! You will do great! When you get it done, I’d love to see a picture of your finished hive! Send a picture to our Facebook page, if you are a Facebooker or to our email
@@BeldingHillFarms I sure will! Thanks again! I'm an old woman with RA. So it could be May before I finish! Lol! But like I said...feel like after watching you do it I can start now. ❤️God is good!
I’m sure you will do great and feel free to email or Facebook Messenger and I’ll be happy to help you along! You got this!!!
just subbed and thumbs - up, that is the type of hives i want no heavy lifting as i,m disabled, are you going to paint the outsides?, be strong, be safe, and be blessed
Yes, we painted them already. I’ll put up a quick video once completed. Thanks
very cool. I'm the one that drew up the construction diagrams for Dr. Leo on this hive in his new book. Neat to see one going together!
That's pretty cool. Small world! The plans are great. The only issue I had was not having the same size plywood available. I made a few small tweaks. Thanks for commenting.
Chris Bloom any chance you drew them in metric too?
Can you put sizes in mm too. Please
This is great vid, I have the plans and beekeeping with a smile from Dr Leo nice to see it put together in Hight speed as I'm a carpenter just like to see things fit together. This will be my first year doing bees so looking forward to the build and the bees. Thank you for your build.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and thank you for watching!
I like this design. I made a video on a design for a horizontal long beehive design with the option to stack 8-frame supers. You can do a search with those words on youtube to find the video. I think horizontal hives are the best.
Cool, I’ll check out your video. Thanks for the comment!
This video rocks. I'll be building these exact hives this spring.
Great video. You did a great job explaining things and I do like the high speed
Awesome to hear. Hopefully if it ever warms up, we will catch some bees and see that hive in action
I like the fast video. Just gives a quick overview that is easy to go back to. The long one hour videos are always hard to go back to find out what's going on.
Thanks for watching
I like the high speed. It saves me from skipping parts. This speed gives a quick overview. Thank you.
That's great and thanks for the feedback and for watching.
Fantastic! Love this video. Thank you
Thanks for watching
I am a 72 year old female in Las Vegas Spring Mountains who watched this entire video. I have noticed the bees making hives in the natural peat moss shore of my large pond and have wondered what to do about those bees! I have been watching Doug & Leo's bee videos and may help save those bees by having my son build that beautiful horizontal bee hotel after I hang a bee catcher next Spring in the willow that graces the pond. My son will be the builder! Thank you!
Please make sure that they are honey bees. Some pretty nasty bees live in the ground.
@joeblow1934 there are over 5200 varieties of bee in the US, many ground dwellers are not aggressive.... it's the wasps you gotta watch for
Thanks. Really enjoyed the upload, question: could you use rigid foam insulation board instead of the wool? Would that have a better R value??
I would say no problem, we just happen to have sheep!
I liked the video for a quick how it's put together, but just like you I would watch and enjoy a complete how to right down to the 32nd. Liked and subbed. Hello from the Kentucky mountains USA 👍
Thanks for the comment and we really appreciate the sub and like. Glad to have you along. It is hard to hit firmly in the middle, to make the highest number of people interested. Out of curiosity, are you a bee keeper now or are you researching? We haven’t used the Layens horizontal hive yet, but we did use the Langstroth and didn’t like them. We have 10 swarm traps out now, hoping to catch some bees soon. We are likely a few weeks behind you in weather warming up.
@@BeldingHillFarms I am. Langstroth hives. I have 2 3 4 5 8 10 frame boxes. I know and to top it off I have 3 different frame sizes. Shallow med and deep. Not to mention the swarm traps. Oh yeah I have one top bar hive too. I picked up a few copy's of his books. I recommend them all. Keeping bee's with a smile has more hive plans in it. But the keeping horizontal hives has better stuff but that's just my opinion. The Gilles queen rearing book is exactly what I was looking for. Also his garden and fruit tree books are great. Nothing affiliated just a fan. I follow a lot of Russian Beekeepers and their style and am trying to find a more standard universal style of equipment. I'm all over the place. Lol....adhd+Beekeeper. Thanks for your response looking forward to seeing your content.
Great Video, great plans, but the freaking measure units are the worst xD im from Europe and i have to rework the whole plans... Not just put the numbers into centimeters, i have to calculate everything new cause we dont get to buy the wood in your thickness etc.
Yeah, I live in Canada and the material I was able to get didn’t match what the plans called for either. I did the same as you and went through and added the differences throughout the plans. Even still, I felt his plans are very well thought out. Good luck on your build!
high speed is fine....I personally watch a lot of youtube videos of many differnet topics looking for the important info I need, I personally just use the left and right arrow keeps to move ahead 5 second at a time or numbers 1-9 move you along the video in tenths and sometime I just hover over the time bar and look at the thumbnail preview that pops up to find specific parts of the video that I think are showing what I am looking for....
but in your case the sped up assembly with the voice over is a good way to talk about what your doing and is very helpful
Thank you for your feedback, I watch things the same as you. Lol. Show me the good stuff!!
@@BeldingHillFarms sometimes I end up watching hour long videos from start to finish. This video interested me cause we just got done building four of our own insulated horizontal langstroth hives (if I make a vid I'll post a link), and part of the reason was because of the advantages Dr. Leo talked about, I was curious to see what his plans where like and how you constructed yours. I did ours in a very different manner for a variety of reasons, but ultimately it will perform the same function and I thought it the way you did it looked pretty easy
Cool! I made two of these hives, earlier this spring. Along with three swarm traps. Best of luck to you.
Same to you. Let us know how the hive and swarm traps work out. We have 10 swarm traps out, but it has been very cold here in New Brunswick, Canada. It has only warmed up the last few days. I'm hoping we will at least catch one swarm.
Great video, the speed was perfect. It just give a taste of building the box and good review of the plans...thanks!
Awesome, thanks for watching
Can you show how you did the sides which hang the frames and how you got the bee space. The Layens frames have a lug of 20mm, so would need a ledge of 12 to 14 to hang off. How did you get this?
The ledge is made from the first inside piece of plywood. The inside piece on the two long sides is different height than the outside. This forms the ledge, the width of the plywood, which for me was 3/8” or 9.5 mm. Let me know if this isn’t clear.
@@BeldingHillFarms thanks for your response. Yes that's clear. So, whether or not you have to route, will depend on the thickness of the ply you use.
Btw, great job on the video. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Great Video. Great Commentary made it enjoyable. I'm looking forward to building my own.
Cheers,
Bugs
Thanks for the kind words
Wow this is amazing! Thank you for posting and sharing. This high speed is where it’s at. Was the perfect length and loved the narration, incredibly helpful.
That is so great to hear! We really appreciate the feedback and thank you so much for watching!
Love it.
Will be interesting to see how this works out for you. This summer I made a 32 frame horizontal Langstroth deep frame hive as an experiment and it was very productive. Make sure you locate it where you want it, as once the bees fill it up it gets almost impossible to move :) I suspect mine weighs over 200 lbs at present.
I also have 32 frame deep and I can divide it into 3 normal size deep with 3 different entrances.
Thank you for sharing, very well done and appreciate the speed and explanations! I'm preparing to build 3 per Dr. Leo's instructions and your video has given me a little more confidence given my lack of experience but I'm still nervous about it. I've printed out, marked up, and poured over his instructions trying to understand the materials, tools and process so I can know what I need to buy, etc. What size staples did you use....gauge, crown and leg width? The materials list has "1" narrow crown"-does that mean 1" legs but what is the width of the crown and gauge? Is that what is used for most of the stapling? He also has "T50 staples, 3/8" leg (20""). What would be the crown on those and what are those used for? This will be my first use of a stapler so that has been confusing and I'm in the process of researching what type to buy-compressor or battery powered electric like the Ryobi so if you would have any advice on that would appreciate. I've seen some discussion regarding putting together the vertical plywood pieces and blowouts due to the thin plywood and some use 1" brad nails for that but you seemed to have no problem and it looked like you just carefully made sure you had the stapler properly placed. Thanks for the time and effort you spent on this!
I used pneumatic crown stapler with 1” staples (1” long) in 18 gauge I believe. If you are careful, you can do everything with the one stapler. Good luck.
Hy Dr. Leo, today was the first time I saw a video at the Amis guy. First of all I have a lot too watch the coming weeks, but you're very educatief .
I do have a question de insolated hivers , do I have too take extra measurements we live in Morocco close to the Sahara desert temperature know are up to 44 - 46 dhr celcius and in the winter it can be pretty cold.. I like the horizontal hives as a European "Dutchman"
I'm thinking about building the horizontal hives according to your plans. Thank you so much for this.
Regards Robert
I’m afraid I wouldn’t know that answer. Our temperatures can go from plus 30 deg C to minus 30 deg C
I don’t have a woodworking background, so I enjoyed it. but would enjoy remedial details😊
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cool! you did a way better job than Bee Boy Bill i like tha fast speed up just fine!!!!! awesome job!!!!!
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I like the high speed, I like the technical ...I see so many videos about this Layens hives .. i get very tried to see the slow-going talk .. Just get on with the video .. your speed and information were great .. different strokes for different folks !!!! keep up the good work ....
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Hello from Saint John. I got land in Cambridge Narrows and plan to setup some Layens hives up there. It will complement my apple trees, and I plan to add some grapevines too. Maybe some hops as well. Not sure about hop honey, but if it taste hoppy, I'll make honey brown ale. I might reach out to you at some point for some pointers if you don't mind.
Howdy neighbour! Reach out anytime! If you ever find yourself in the Hampton area, stop in!
Thanks for the great video. It looks like you were using 3/8" plywood? Or are my eyes not so good :) never mind, listened more carefully
You are absolutely right. I just made a few minor adjustments to the plans from Dr. Leo’s website, but honestly, it is so close, I think following his measurements and using 3/8 is fine. It depends how precise of a person you are! Lol
Nice work you are expert... But I notice where is ventilation? Bees in winter produce heat co2 and moisture.. warm air oxygen ⬆🌡.. moisture co2 must go ⬇ if co2 moisture stay hives bees going to under big stresses.
I am far from an expert!! The ventilation is on the cover. There was a section in the video showing the downward sloping holes covered with mesh.
I have 2 sheets of plywood as I’m only building one hive. What’s the best procedure to cut up the two sheets of plywood so I end up with all the necessary pieces? Dr Leo’s procedure shows a process for cutting four sheets of plywood. Any advice would be appreciated.
Sorry for taking so long to answer! I sat down several times to figure this out for you, but never completed it! (Too many things to do on the homestead, lol). However, I just found this new to me website and thought of you right away. Try entering the quantities needed per hive into here and let me know how it works. www.cutlistoptimizer.com/
The high speed was great for building sense I have some experience in building. Slower for me would be boring.
Tank you for watching and you can check out our other videos to see these hives with bees in them!
The high speed is great, but only because the details (plans) are already available elsewhere. If someone wants the plans, they can get them. Someone that doesn't need the plans (already have them or not that interested) aren't bored by being forced through them. Just my opinion.
We totally agree with you
No offense to your wife on her wanting to watch this video, but does she build hives? As a DIY guy, i feel this is a helpful video that nicely omits footage of cutting the wood...which isnt helpful unless there is a special technique to be used.
I guess I have to make videos that would appeal to me to watch and I agree about cutting out the wood pieces, that just doesn’t provide any valuable insight, as long as you know how to use basic tools. I hope you enjoyed the video and with any luck, we will catch some bees in our swarm traps that we built in a previous video, but showed too much of the wood cutting. Thanks for the comment.
This my first time to watch your channel, so the cutting comment wasn't aimed specifically at you but rather a compliment that you have focused on what is helpful to someone assembling this hive!
ApexSun no worries. We are a very new channel and all comments are appreciated. We are mainly a small homestead and we are always doing many things that we think people may find interesting, but it adds a whole new complexity to video and make the video useful to people. We enjoy the opportunity to interact with other like minded individuals. Thanks for watching and thanks for the compliment. It is hard to know if we are doing a good job or not. I’m sure that will become clearer in the future.
I like the speed up video . Great job
Thank you
Awesome! Tell your wife I loved that video. In fact I am going to make some of those and let you know how they turned out!
Perfect, make sure you drop back a picture of the finished product
very very cool !! i think i am going to give capturing a feral swarm and one of these hives... awesome... J
Thanks for watching and good luck
Yes liked it very nice 👍. Going to build one myself so I’ll be referring back to this a few times I’m sure.
Glad to hear
Excellent video and thank you's for sharing!!
Thank you for watching
I think regular speed is ok too
Great video! You made that look easy. I will definitely refer back to this video if I decide to build one of these hives!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
Good job brethren
Keep up the righteous work
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For the seam in the plywood roof you could use the roof sheathing clip
It gets covered with tin, so it’s not a big deal
I really don’t like it high speed....there are so many elements of the fine tweaking of what needs to be done that it is easy to miss...at least for me just an average person in the knowledge of building things. One thing I don’t get is the part with the vent holes. Question if a bee is on top of the top bars do they see those holes. Over the head space of the horizontal hive, you said. It appears when you close the hive that the holes would be on the side of the hive. Could you at least explain that part in slow motion. I am not getting it. Thank you.
Actually these holes are just over top of the frames and provide hive ventilation. The cover does not sit right down over the hive, it just sits about 3/4” over the hive.
, I really like the high-speed bill because some videos safe to drive on and on on the people make by doing it in time you want to see it at a slower speed you can always turn the speed Play Back Down
Thanks for watching!
Cool video!
We've build multiple Layens hives but they aren't insulated. Your video motivates me to want to try it!
Awesome, thanks for comment and good luck
Random question, if you don’t have access to wool what other kind of insulation could you use?
Standard Fiber glass insulation would work also. We just happen to have a flock of sheep and it’s possible you may know people with sheep also that would have wool. Usually unless someone has a very large flock of sheep, they don’t place great value on the wool. It is just something they need to shear from their sheep annually.
Love high speed video! it's kind of cut it short right to the end.. well done
Thanks for watching and thanks for the feedback
If you went a little slower in your filming I would be able to watch the whole thing but it was making me dizzy
Sorry, tried to find the happy medium of not too slow and not too fast
many thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the great video. The speed was good, at least for me. I have done a lot of wood working, so it was easy to understand what you were doing, without spending too much time on it. Thanks again, as I do plan to build one of these myself.
Thanks for taking the time to comment
Like your video, do you think fiber glass insulation would be ok?
Yes, I think that would be fine. We happen to have sheep, so ww used wool.
Very good I like it more more very good Walter Dumont said that
Thanks for watching! We really appreciate the support
It would be good if you get a extra stand to it on wheels and a handle to pull it along or remote control for transport
They are heavy!
It's only held with staples? Thnx for posting.
Staples and glue. But these are crown moulding staples so they hold really well
Very helpful! Good job. Thanks
Thank you for watching and Merry Christmas
Thankyou brother
Wow you have a nice shop :) and lots of skills :)
Thanks, it’s a bit cluttered, but we make do!
I still do not understand insulating everything but the top. Maybe it is because I am in Texas and the sun beats down, I put foam insulation under the roof of all my hives. If you put 3/4" foam insulation under the top then the holes can still vent. I plan to build the same hive pretty soon too. Just love the Layens hives. Great job!
I expect the top may need insulation in the winter, but the holes in the lid allow air to flow through the top. I don't pretend to know, as I have only used the Langstroth in the past. If anyone else has experience, please add to this comment.
During the winter, Dr. Leo suggests placing a wool pillow above the brood nest leaving enough space for proper ventilation. It’s easily removable in the summer when the heat rises and releases through the top vents. Works great!
Thank you for showing the full setup. Personally, I would have preferred a non-sped up video. I like seeing the full break-down, and the reduced speed helps give my mind time to process how everything is being put together (newbie here), rather than struggling to keep up as the video races forward.
But I know a lot of people prefer the faster speed. I'm just one of those who are the opposite. Lol.
But I thoroughly enjoyed the video! Watched it all the way to the end!
Thanks for watching
You can always slow it down. But the voice slows too, hmm
@@BeldingHillFarmsyou could load the regular speed version and double your audience/views!
What is the r factor of hive I live in upper North Dakota
I really don’t know, sorry
amazing build. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much! Check out our other videos to see bees in the hives
I really liked the high speed video. Thanks.
Awesome and thanks for watching
Good once for a video
I simply loved the fast speed
Thanks for watching
very helpful video. thanks.
Thanks for watching
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I have been wanting to do this. Have not found a sheep yet
Lol, you can use other commercial insulation’s or you can find someone else that have sheep. In some cases the wool isn’t even used for anything
Genius construction! I was wondering if ply could be used somehow!
Have you used this design before?
Can the mites/shb/wax worms use the insulation to hide in?
I would kind of like a slower speed build of this
Thanks for letting us know. I may have some footage left and I’m certainly happy to help with any questions you may have.
You've done well. Loved the narration and no probs with the speed setting.
Like the speed
::posts video edited at 4x normal speed::
::Names video "Wow that was quick"::
I could have missed you mention that on one of Dr. Leo's videos, to use plywood that doesn't have formaldehyde. And that you would need to read the SDS. Just in case you want to build your own.
I LOVE the fast pace and informative method you are using. I lose interest with the videos who show and explain every tiny detail! Thank you for your contribution!
Yes Definitely high speed & nice job
Thank you and Merry Christmas
Would we need to insulate for Texas Heat
I would suggest that it would work the opposite way to keep them cooler in your heaviest heat. But like most things it’s trial and error, so try one no insulation and one with insulation. My guess will bee (pun intended), the uninsulated one will have the bees bearding on the outside in the hot days, when the insulated one won’t. Just my guess.
Thanks for sharing the process. The speed was just correct and your explanations clear enough. How do you call that little tool you use to allow the screw to be flat with the wood?
It’s called a countersink bit
@@BeldingHillFarms thanks!!
I would like to see the build at regular speed, perhaps with additional details about materials, dimensions, etc. Great video!
Excellent!!! Thank you for the high speed, and great narration. Subscribed! Keep em coming!!
Maybe others who arent familiar with woodworking, would appreciate the slower vid.
Great to hear
I like the high speed vibe. Subscribed.
We are very glad you liked it. Now hopefully we can catch some bees to put in it! Thanks for subscribing.
Excellent video, for someone doing the build it has what we need.
Thanks for watching
Very helpful video. I bought one Layen's Hive from Dr. Leo and hope to make more. His instructions for the insulated hive didn't have pictures so this video filled in some blanks for me.
I like the high speed video and still got the basic idea to build this layen style hive. Thank you for making this video.
I really like the hi speed assembly.
Thanks for watching
Are you using a follower board?
We aren’t only because we didn’t have any luck trapping swarms this year. I will though once I get bees in there. I am committed to Dr. Leo’s philosophy and would prefer not to buy bees. Although this video has been so popular, I may have to buy bees in the spring just to be able to answer peoples questions on the use of this hive design.
Do you actually sell any of ur hives?
Currently we do not
Do you sell the hives? Even just the parts? After watching your video, I feel confident enough to assemble, but I’m not ready to make such precise cuts just yet. Haha!!
Excellent! Thanks so much
Thank you
Very helpful to see what you’ve done. Thanks very much
Great video. I'm starting to think I could build my own. I will definitely get a nail gun. That will be vital for building hives, and chickshaws.
I loved it. Are you selling them?
Not this year!
Needs a safety chain and a few landing boards, but I really liked this build, out of 7 that I have seen.
This box retails for between $400 -- $600 dollars with $110 shipping so you saved a solid $200 -- $600 dollars
making it yourself. The screen at the bottom is not really necessary in most areas where there is not other
bees within 3 miles of your location. Divider boards and feeding divider boards are almost a requirement.
Bales of cotton rags from goodwill might be a good replacement for the wool if your don't have a herd of sheep
nearby, or I have seen people use metal backed foam insulation.
All good mate. Music a bit grim
Music selection is noted! Lol