1--Aluminium mesh for the bees in the summer feeder glass bottle would be good if the aluminium were not toxic. Some miniscule portion of it may dissolve in the sugary water and harm humans from the honey made by the bees. Aluminium is suspected to cause alzheimer's or parkinson's etc. The mesh type ladder may be made by cotton cloth or wooden twigs used in brooms etc. 2--newspaper for winter feeder has the drawback that the bees will incorporate some of the printing ink used in the newspaper which might be toxic for the bees, lowering their immunity 3--Manmade chemically refined sugar itself may lower bee immunity unless raw unrefined sugar is used in the feed 4- The stability of the hive is not understood as the base legs seems to not be shown 5--How the moisture collection and drainage system using the cloth wick system is designed has not been explained since there is no drainage pipe outlet. 6--The roof lid is pretty long to easily lift by an older beekeeper and could give back/spine problems. A hinged roof lid as used in designs of top hives could be thought about 7-Dimensions of the hive, specially wall thickness and roof thickness for braving the elements during extreme summer and winter temperatures for different latitudes must be specified. 8--Captioning and proofreading of the video might help generate more views from around the world. I could not understand or spell the type of insulation shown in the roof lid at the beginning of the video.
I clicked on your video because I love the top bar method and want to do it myself but this is just amazing! I never thought about what to do about feeding them and this just clinched it for me!
Been building top bar hives for about 5 years now myself, and I have had the same bees in one for 3 years now, in northwest indiana!. winter temps got down to 14 below zero last year, and now my main hive is overpopulated. Love your show.
For a feeder, take a large jar, pierce the lid in multiple spots with a thumbtack, then fill with a sugar solution and invert the jar on a rack in the hive. Small droplets will form under the lid, which the bees can collect.
glad I found this chanel uz are the best I love the way uz think. I'm into top bar hives too. my kids and I are starting are cabin this summer can't wait gonna be 100% off grid. keep the vids coming.
I started watching you guys on live free or die. Really wish you could start posting more videos like these. So knowledgeable and funny. Love you guys!
We live in Kansas and we're hooked on watching you two! We want to start our own little homestead just like you!! Keep up the good work and keep uploading great content!!!
You are just such amazing people. And thanks Amelia, you encouraged me to have bees :D Our bee box is on its way to us, sweet yeayness. Blessings to you both
Just a suggestion but I think a stainless steel screen will be better. I now in brewing aluminum is a big no no, they say aluminum has bad stuff that leaches out. Now maybe that only happens when heated. Not sure. But better safe then sorry. Nice build 😊
Good video. I like your spaced top bars. I use these on a couple of my hives. Just wanted to say, that I have found that during a heavy honey flow one can place a langstroth super on top and allow the bees more room and place to store extra honey. works well. Michael, in Kentucky
Boys, with the way you made the top bars allows you to grow more than one colony in every beehive, because if you close each family at 7-8 top bars, it will allow you to put upstairs stores to increase your honey production on this way . With a strong honey flow, the bees instinctively stores the honey upwards. Just think about putting up stores on the top bar.
One thing you might try, drill a hole in the center of the top bar preferably the size of a bamboo barbecue skewer and push it through to the bottom of where the comb is to be built or you can push it through the comb after it is built and it will add stability o the comb for moving or tilting!!!!!!!!! And they are cheep😊
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On the underside of the top bar, I wax in a two inch honeycomb plastic covered in beezwax so the bees have something to instantly start the honey/wax production
My first thought was that the spaces between the top bars will prevent the bees from sealing their space, for climate control, as they usually do when they close the gaps with propolis.
you could think about making a 3 in thick block of fondant in the same shape as the triangle comb and place one on each end of colony in contac with active combs pulling an empty combs during winter allowing fondant to always stay in contac with the bees this might work much better then dry sugar that will fall all over comb as bees chew holes thru newspaper.
High entrances cause heat loss. End entrances make it more difficult to inspect the brood nest, compared with side entrances with tandem followers. Top bar hives should NOT have gaps between bars - that defeats the whole point of them, which is to retain heat better than a conventional hive.
@PhilChandler - sir,. Glad to see your reply. As a beginning beekeeper, i watch a lot of videos, and i find yours especially useful. I'm glad you've chimed in on this one. Looking forward to more videos of your hives
The large sugar feeder on top might get real messy .and the ants will really love you .Why not just not take so much honey ,or put a couple filled frames in the old chest freezer for later if you need it,Just saying,but real nice design anyways.
Could you drill a hole in the center of each top bar preferably a tight fit for a bamboo barbecue skewer to be pushed the bottom of the comb or where the comb will be and this will strengthen the the comb and they are a cheap method to strengthen he comb!!!!!
Hi There, I love the quality of the work, and the feeder is genius, I would love to hear how that works out. A question if I may, and a possible suggestion Question, why the spacing b Tween the bars, I thought one of the main points behind the TBH was that she he Bars formed a roof above the bees, and did not let light in, your design lets as much light in as a traditional Hive. Also if you made the roof angle higher, you could store your Hive tools in the roof. I do this with both my hives, the tools are cheap and this way there is no chance of cross contamination between hives. Love the videos, thank you for sharing
Really love the videos. Informative and funny! Had a question on the weight - are these much heavier than standard hives? I remember the episode where the bees swarmed - will it be easy to move these to dump a cluster of bees into? Amazing design, and I can't wait to see how it worked!
They are heavy! You can build a small "nucleus" hive for catching swarms, and move the bars to the larger hive after a few weeks once the bees have drawn comb. Does that make sense?
This was great, thanks, I've been looking for "warre beehive plans" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Tiyia Beehive Basophilic - (search on google ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my brother in law got great results with it.
Wool works way better then goose down and can be a big mistake to use for bees .Goose down can trap moisture in and hold it instead of breathing like wool does once goose down gets any type of wet it done it looses it ability to insulate . Just switch to wool .
So... why are you feeding bees in the summer? Shouldn't they be out foraging for nectar & pollen? No flowers in your area? Are they on the social safety net? Oh, I know, it's a soup kitchen for bees. Cool!
We have bees coming in the spring. I am leaning towards a top bar. But heard they are better for producing bees not so much honey. The horizontal langstroth is my next choice. What do you think about these two hives. Love watching you on the show. Cheers from Canada!
I work on a project in Zambia where we introduce beekeeping. Some hives produced by local carpenters have gaps/spaces between the pine planks where bees could also pass. That doesnt look ok to me. Please give your opinion on this.
did you do a video after you had this hive in use for a number of years? how did it go? was the "robber bee" free feeding design a success? a flop? any tips on function after seeing it in action?
hello, thanks for your effort! I am curious to know if you have copyrights over this hive in case you have design it totally? And if you are totally fine if anyone copied this design?
A season has pretty come and gone since you posted the video, how did the bottom feeder work? I'm interested in doing something like that, but I'm also concerned with how it could be insulated during hte winter.
The glass disoriented the bees and trapped them. So we started using pvc for our feeders. The containers we built hold one gallon of syrup. They seem to work much better than the jars...but are more expensive, unfortunately.
Tony And Amelia I think when we look back decades from now, if not sooner, we are going to realize pesticides and chemicals will have been the main cause of the sixth major mass extinction, followed closely by habitat destruction. It's chilling. I grew up in the woods of NH and when I go back now, it certainly seems like I don't hear any of the birds I used to 30 years ago. Could just be me getting old and losing my hearing though, but I don't think so.
+Tony And Amelia Here is Baltimore for the first time in 8 years I have lost 40 colonies due to lack of forage and high pesticide loads...we keep 4 different hive styles and a couple bee gums...great under feeder for TBH...
Loved the video guys. And after watching there series you have inspired me to get bees. Have always wanted to get into bee keeping but you guys are close to me in appalachia and you make it look fun and fairly easy. Thanks for the inspiration!!! Gonna build one and do sone videos of it. Give you guys the credit too. Also the trex / teradactal fighting un a volcano would make an awesome thumbnail. Got a good laugh at that
If you're going to go to the effort of making a video please pay more attention to the sound. She is way too soft he is too loud. There is a lot of distracting peripheral noise like microphone scraping.
bad design that will work a beekeeper to death..... might be ok if you are only a back yard beekeeper but if you scale your yard up that will work you to death...
1--Aluminium mesh for the bees in the summer feeder glass bottle would be good if the aluminium were not toxic. Some miniscule portion of it may dissolve in the sugary water and harm humans from the honey made by the bees. Aluminium is suspected to cause alzheimer's or parkinson's etc. The mesh type ladder may be made by cotton cloth or wooden twigs used in brooms etc.
2--newspaper for winter feeder has the drawback that the bees will incorporate some of the printing ink used in the newspaper which might be toxic for the bees, lowering their immunity
3--Manmade chemically refined sugar itself may lower bee immunity unless raw unrefined sugar is used in the feed
4- The stability of the hive is not understood as the base legs seems to not be shown
5--How the moisture collection and drainage system using the cloth wick system is designed has not been explained since there is no drainage pipe outlet.
6--The roof lid is pretty long to easily lift by an older beekeeper and could give back/spine problems. A hinged roof lid as used in designs of top hives could be thought about
7-Dimensions of the hive, specially wall thickness and roof thickness for braving the elements during extreme summer and winter temperatures for different latitudes must be specified.
8--Captioning and proofreading of the video might help generate more views from around the world. I could not understand or spell the type of insulation shown in the roof lid at the beginning of the video.
I clicked on your video because I love the top bar method and want to do it myself but this is just amazing! I never thought about what to do about feeding them and this just clinched it for me!
Been building top bar hives for about 5 years now myself, and I have had the same bees in one for 3 years now, in northwest indiana!. winter temps got down to 14 below zero last year, and now my main hive is overpopulated. Love your show.
For a feeder, take a large jar, pierce the lid in multiple spots with a thumbtack, then fill with a sugar solution and invert the jar on a rack in the hive. Small droplets will form under the lid, which the bees can collect.
An Absolutely amazing hive! Great ideas. Love you guys. Keep the videos coming!
glad I found this chanel uz are the best I love the way uz think. I'm into top bar hives too. my kids and I are starting are cabin this summer can't wait gonna be 100% off grid. keep the vids coming.
I started watching you guys on live free or die. Really wish you could start posting more videos like these. So knowledgeable and funny. Love you guys!
This video is awesome! Great job! I need to build this now
We live in Kansas and we're hooked on watching you two! We want to start our own little homestead just like you!! Keep up the good work and keep uploading great content!!!
I like it. You feeding jar idea is great.
...I had hives several times. OMG did my skin itch. Everytime I eat shellfish... wish you well...keep up the videos... :)
And your "thumbnail" clips are hilarious!
You are just such amazing people. And thanks Amelia, you encouraged me to have bees :D Our bee box is on its way to us, sweet yeayness. Blessings to you both
Very nice hive. Thanks for sharing.
Just a suggestion but I think a stainless steel screen will be better. I now in brewing aluminum is a big no no, they say aluminum has bad stuff that leaches out. Now maybe that only happens when heated. Not sure. But better safe then sorry. Nice build 😊
Put your feeder behind the follower board to prevent robbing. The entire jar fits into the hive full of sugar water.
Love top bar hives that's a cool one good job. Hope to see more vids soon
Ps more girl boobs lol
Good video. I like your spaced top bars. I use these on a couple of my hives. Just wanted to say, that I have found that during a heavy honey flow one can place a langstroth super on top and allow the bees more room and place to store extra honey. works well. Michael, in Kentucky
I liked your feeding system man thanks for share
Love the end 😂😂😂
It looks like a Child-Coffin. Verry nice.
loved you guys in Live Free
keep rockin the flock guys, amen!
Boys, with the way you made the top bars allows you to grow more than one colony in every beehive, because if you close each family at 7-8 top bars, it will allow you to put upstairs stores to increase your honey production on this way . With a strong honey flow, the bees instinctively stores the honey upwards. Just think about putting up stores on the top bar.
Nifty hive design!
One thing you might try, drill a hole in the center of the top bar preferably the size of a bamboo barbecue skewer and push it through to the bottom of where the comb is to be built or you can push it through the comb after it is built and it will add stability o the comb for moving or tilting!!!!!!!!! And they are cheep😊
Blooper thumbs are great!
I love the videos tony and Amelia I love you guys you're wonderful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nice video, great hive. You might want to place the camera on a tripod, I found it difficult to focus on details due the the movement of the camera.
Amelia sizi Türkiye'den izliyorum Bütün Belgesellerini defalarca izledim Tony nin zekasına sizin azminize çalışmalarınıza hayranım.sizleri severek izliyorum
One downside to your bottom feeder will be the wax debris falling into it when the cappings are removed. Looks well made good luck.
On the underside of the top bar, I wax in a two inch honeycomb plastic covered in beezwax so the bees have something to instantly start the honey/wax production
Nice hive guys good job
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Side entrance would be better. The feeding system will still drown some bees.
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Thanks very much. its educative indeed.
My first thought was that the spaces between the top bars will prevent the bees from sealing their space, for climate control, as they usually do when they close the gaps with propolis.
I use the same basic feeder system, I use quart wide mouth mason jars, 4 per bottom board. I also use a jar as a SHB trap.
I came for the top bar hive, stayed for the thumbnail photos. Oh what that’s the wrong way round….
you could think about making a 3 in thick block of fondant in the same shape as the triangle comb and place one on each end of colony in contac with active combs pulling an empty combs during winter allowing fondant to always stay in contac with the bees this might work much better then dry sugar that will fall all over comb as bees chew holes thru newspaper.
Também gosto muito de abelhas pois é muito bom lidar com elas.
High entrances cause heat loss. End entrances make it more difficult to inspect the brood nest, compared with side entrances with tandem followers. Top bar hives should NOT have gaps between bars - that defeats the whole point of them, which is to retain heat better than a conventional hive.
@PhilChandler - sir,. Glad to see your reply. As a beginning beekeeper, i watch a lot of videos, and i find yours especially useful.
I'm glad you've chimed in on this one.
Looking forward to more videos of your hives
@PhilChandler - Thank you, good sir. I just finished your video on top bar hives. Thanks for jumping in here.
This looks like a really good idea honey bees are definitely on the decline
I need his barber.
Waiting for more on the hive.
The large sugar feeder on top might get real messy .and the ants will really love you .Why not just not take so much honey ,or put a couple filled frames in the old chest freezer for later if you need it,Just saying,but real nice design anyways.
the sugar on top is for winter, dont know about you, but the ants are nonexistent where I live during the winter
subscribed because of the thumbnail vogues
Amelia, I watch "Live Free or Die" and was inspired to start a beehive. I pose the question of how to extract honey with out baby bees in the honey.
Generally the brood and the honey are on separate combs. Only take the combs with the honey. You can tell the difference visually.
Where have you been guys? Love you and miss you!
Could you drill a hole in the center of each top bar preferably a tight fit for a bamboo barbecue skewer to be pushed the bottom of the comb or where the comb will be and this will strengthen the the comb and they are a cheap method to strengthen he comb!!!!!
Hi There,
I love the quality of the work, and the feeder is genius, I would love to hear how that works out.
A question if I may, and a possible suggestion
Question, why the spacing b Tween the bars, I thought one of the main points behind the TBH was that she he Bars formed a roof above the bees, and did not let light in, your design lets as much light in as a traditional Hive.
Also if you made the roof angle higher, you could store your Hive tools in the roof. I do this with both my hives, the tools are cheap and this way there is no chance of cross contamination between hives.
Love the videos, thank you for sharing
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great thumbnails
Vcs são D+++ ..
Parabéns
Really love the videos. Informative and funny! Had a question on the weight - are these much heavier than standard hives? I remember the episode where the bees swarmed - will it be easy to move these to dump a cluster of bees into? Amazing design, and I can't wait to see how it worked!
They are heavy! You can build a small "nucleus" hive for catching swarms, and move the bars to the larger hive after a few weeks once the bees have drawn comb. Does that make sense?
This was great, thanks, I've been looking for "warre beehive plans" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Tiyia Beehive Basophilic - (search on google ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my brother in law got great results with it.
Wool works way better then goose down and can be a big mistake to use for bees .Goose down can trap moisture in and hold it instead of breathing like wool does once goose down gets any type of wet it done it looses it ability to insulate . Just switch to wool .
So... why are you feeding bees in the summer? Shouldn't they be out foraging for nectar & pollen? No flowers in your area? Are they on the social safety net? Oh, I know, it's a soup kitchen for bees. Cool!
booommmm chacalacaaaa
Thanks!!!
You’re the star Amalia
Damnit. Where have you guys been? Been needing a Tony and Amelia fix.
We have bees coming in the spring. I am leaning towards a top bar. But heard they are better for producing bees
not so much honey. The horizontal langstroth is my next choice. What do you think about these two hives.
Love watching you on the show. Cheers from Canada!
Great hive however top bar are relatively low cost but how do these improvement add to the cost of the hive
You probably figured out that your feeder collects a lot of junk. I would not use it.
How do you destroy Varro mite? Surely you need a screen at the bottom of the hive to allow the mites to fall out?
she's so beautiful lol!
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I work on a project in Zambia where we introduce beekeeping. Some hives produced by local carpenters have gaps/spaces between the pine planks where bees could also pass. That doesnt look ok to me. Please give your opinion on this.
did you do a video after you had this hive in use for a number of years? how did it go? was the "robber bee" free feeding design a success? a flop? any tips on function after seeing it in action?
Is there an update yet? How did it work? Looks great!
Where the new videos at?
hello, thanks for your effort! I am curious to know if you have copyrights over this hive in case you have design it totally? And if you are totally fine if anyone copied this design?
A season has pretty come and gone since you posted the video, how did the bottom feeder work? I'm interested in doing something like that, but I'm also concerned with how it could be insulated during hte winter.
The glass disoriented the bees and trapped them. So we started using pvc for our feeders. The containers we built hold one gallon of syrup. They seem to work much better than the jars...but are more expensive, unfortunately.
Hello from SoCal. Is this the couple on "Live Free or Die"? I've always enjoyed watching you guys with all your creative ideas :)
Thanks
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Where are the bees
...what is killing the bees?....Does anyone have a good explanation as to why?
Mostly habitat loss...we think
edition.cnn.com/2017/01/10/us/bumblebee-endangered/index.html?sr=twCNN011117bumblebee-endangered1107AMStoryLink&linkId=33266119
Tony And Amelia I think when we look back decades from now, if not sooner, we are going to realize pesticides and chemicals will have been the main cause of the sixth major mass extinction, followed closely by habitat destruction. It's chilling. I grew up in the woods of NH and when I go back now, it certainly seems like I don't hear any of the birds I used to 30 years ago. Could just be me getting old and losing my hearing though, but I don't think so.
+Tony And Amelia Here is Baltimore for the first time in 8 years I have lost 40 colonies due to lack of forage and high pesticide loads...we keep 4 different hive styles and a couple bee gums...great under feeder for TBH...
MONSANTO. The true enemy of us all
Loved the video guys. And after watching there series you have inspired me to get bees. Have always wanted to get into bee keeping but you guys are close to me in appalachia and you make it look fun and fairly easy. Thanks for the inspiration!!! Gonna build one and do sone videos of it. Give you guys the credit too. Also the trex / teradactal fighting un a volcano would make an awesome thumbnail. Got a good laugh at that
If you're going to go to the effort of making a video please pay more attention to the sound. She is way too soft he is too loud. There is a lot of distracting peripheral noise like microphone scraping.
Belligerence?
Bee update video after a few years?
Portugal apicoltor BES
This video is better, FYI
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yeah it is!
bad design that will work a beekeeper to death..... might be ok if you are only a back yard beekeeper but if you scale your yard up that will work you to death...