Building your Top Bar Hive - Learning Beekeeping
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There are many plans for Top Bar Hives. The vast majority are overkill. Come back to simplicity and see how these hives were designed to be made.
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Thanks for this video! I'm interested in maybe keeping a hive, and top bars look easier for someone who just wants to make a nice lil home for some bees and isn't a serious, spend-tons-of-money bee keeper. I love your laid back attitude about it!
Thank y’all for sharing!
If you have a fan you can put them in a garage and the Linseed and Wax will dry in just 2 days, turn them ever 4-5 hours. Hope this helps, good video dude! Love Bees
Your videos are Great!! Thanks. I now have a TTBH that I put my first package in the beginning of Jan(I'm in South FL). I also have an all med. lang set up that I want to start too.
@sunnykintyre Scotland? The roof should be 1/2" wood to aid winter insulation and provide mass to prevent it blowing off. A brick on top will also help. That's a suggestion, some local beekeeper who keeps TBHs should be consulted.
As for the sloped sides, it reduces the number of bridge combs bees will build to the sides. Makes life better for the beek.
@musketman2008 That is the whole beauty of the TBH. By bees nature they don't want to build on slopes, so they don't attach to the slopped TBH walls. If they ever do build a bridge comb, you cut it off with your breadknife.
This is my first year with a top bar hive and it seems to be doing good. I am in northern Indiana and haven't gone through a winter yet. I read that top bar hives dont winter well and so am considering switching to a warre hive system. The book said the reason that top bar hives dont winter well is due to the fact that bees travel vertically for food when cold and do not like to go horizontal. What are your thoughts on this?
@iamRapscallion Linseed did preserve it. But I'd just paint them next time. What I did fine that was useful was that you should use nails, only use screws. The wood warps and forms cracks they bees get thru. Screws would have prevented that. My screens are just fine, so far.
These KTB Hives are ideal for low cost, simple beekeeping. The con is they are not as flexible if you are managing dozens of hives.
thanks, thanks. Be sure to watch Conrad Berube's videos too. His are great.
i really like the Top Bar Hive idea could i make it so its a long rectangle rather than an upside down triangle?
Really good and informative! Thanks!
I read that you can put olive oil inside the hive to help preserve it
@sunnykintyre If you've not already found it or started keeping bees already... go and join the forum at the biobees website.
There's a TON of information on there and I'm pretty sure there are a few top bar beekeepers up in Scotland using that board.
You didn't mentioned the entrance holes. biobees uses the side holes - which I would rather not - do you have a couple more holes on the other end for ventilation? thanks. just saw that big 2" hole in the other end. :)
I think there is a hive in my attic 🤔
How do I safely remove them?
@rockyPants4000 i have found with my hives ( two ttbh and 2 ktbh ) that it doesn't seem to make any difference between them, they tend to build more brace comb on the honey than they do on the brood. plus once i cut the braces off the brood comb they seldom make any more whereas with the honey they will re-brace it over and over .
Just came across this video so I haven't looked to see if there's a follow up on it, but how well are you finding that linseed oil/wax has preserved the wood? Do you close up that bottom in the fall/winter? I started out with screened bottoms on my TBHs, but ripped them out the 1st year. I've heard that the entire length being screen is too much ventilation and makes regulating hive temp difficult, any thoughts? Are your bees regressed/drawing small cell? Good work! (:
Thanks for the video!
How do you prevent the bees from attaching the combs to the sides and bottoms? You don't want the combs to rip out of the frame when you pry it out.
Can you update us with how the hives weathered with the linseed oil/wax? Thanks!
Well, they are weathering well. The wood darkened from UV exposure I guess. But still good. Is it worth the trouble? No. I'll either leave them untreated next time, or paint with some cheap paint.
The hive will create a new queen. If that does not happen, you need to re queen the hive.
Great video...
I love this video. I dont like the entrance. The big holes and not at the end. At the side southfaceing. Also the screen should have a wood bottom under it for temp managment by the bees. Looks like you got the angles right. Also the top bars better to have a cleat.
What about the end pieces? Angle?
@ssmel1963 Это не гробы, но ульи.Особый вид улей предназначен для Африки, называется "Топ Hives Бар"
Hi, Could you tell me at what angle are your end pieces are cut? I guess i mean degrees!
could you address ventilation? I have front entrance holes with 2 ventilation holes on either side on the end - I dont think my ventilation is correct. could someone advise?
why not just tack on coreplast political signs for bottoms in winter? I mean, they are free.
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I would never recommend Bush's weather proofing to beginners. Bush heated a vat of wax and resin and dipped much woodenware in it. He had to custom make the vat, which is not exactly simple and not worth just a few hives. Further, if you research more, others have tried and one caught the mix on fire and burned up some of his woodenware.
As for dipping the starter sticks, not good, it is subpar for a guide. Watch my other vid on making bars using string and soidering iron.
Actually, we do not use top bar hives in Ukraine, but thanks for interesting video! We have other types of beehives. By the way, welcome to Kiev,Ukraine and welcome to Petro Prokopovich Beekeeping Museum in Kiev! Good luck beekeeping! :)
What happens to a swarm if the queen is killed during extraction ?
Thanks