Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => TOP BAR HIVES - WARRE HIVES - LONG HIVES => Topic started by: Pete on August 25, 2010, 11:07:17 pm
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I wonder if any TBH builder consider the Golden Mean or the mathematical constant Phi to calculate your hive shape?
It's possible that using the Phi ratio to build your TBH might provide the bees with the absolute best chance of building the strongest and most bountiful comb according to the laws of nature?
Interested to know if anyone has considered this?
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the folks at backyard hive have one that supposedly uses this.
Big Bear
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I did not consider the Golden Mean and I'm quite certain that bees do not as well...
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How about working with hexagon geometry? I'm sure someone's tried it.
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Scott McPherson seems convinced that keeping the angle of the sides the same as the angle of the cells makes a difference in attachments. I'm not convinced.
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How about working with hexagon geometry? I'm sure someone's tried it.
I am very New to Bees and Top bars but my thought is If you Build a TBH and take the V and make it in a Hex
The Bee's will attach their comb to the sides of the Hive and render it From removing any Comb
If they didn't attach anything But the Top bar
How would you go about Lifting the bar of comb out
Or Am I Just missing the whole Idea here ,If so the Laugh is on Me
won't be a first :roll:
Tommyt
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I wonder if any TBH builder consider the Golden Mean or the mathematical constant Phi to calculate your hive shape?
I believe the original Warre Hive dimensions where based on the Golden Mean.
I'm thinking it is a purely coincidental that my warre hive produced 1.6x more honey than the Langstroth next to it :evil:
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I'm thinking it is a purely coincidental that my warre hive produced 1.6x more honey than the Langstroth next to it :evil:
Is that a one time observation? Or repeated?
Do you use removable frames in your Warre?
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robo, i'm curious if in general you find hives next to one another produce the same ammount?
deknow
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I'm thinking it is a purely coincidental that my warre hive produced 1.6x more honey than the Langstroth next to it :evil:
whoa, whoa everyone. That was my bad attempt at sarcasm... Golden Rule - 1.6
Do you use removable frames in your Warre?
Nope, flat bars. The warre bars are short enough that they don't seem to curve the comb, and with the space between them, centering the comb on the bars doesn't seem to be an issue either.
robo, i'm curious if in general you find hives next to one another produce the same ammount?
Nope, every hive is different, depending on the strength and population. Some yards will be better than others, but there can be quite the variance in a given yard.