Long hive design???

[homer]

I was looking at this hive design on Beesource.com.  Looks like an interesting idea, and the guy says that it is one of his best honey producers, but I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this idea.

Sorry, I don't know how to post pics or I would, but here is a link to the site.

http://www.beesource.com/eob/condo/index.htm

[hardtime]

go look on page 4 at the hive with two queens  post and look at bjornbee  picture of his hive and see what u think about it .

[drobbins]

here's video of me putting bees in one I built

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOS-YXlZIIo

it's interesting to mess with
no lifting is great
they have made much less honey than a langstroth hive for me

Dave

[Michael Bush]

>I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this idea.

I've done many similar hives.  My main purpose was to eliminate lifting though.  So with a double wide deep (such as that one) I try to get the brood at one end and the supers on the other.

[justgojumpit]

I built three to try some out this year.  It will be fun to mess around with.  I like the idea of no lifting, and I like the fact that I could run these as a top bar hive as well.  Also, the no lifting would be great.  I wish I did this last year so I would have some more experiences to share with you!  If this works anything like the top bar hive that I had, it should be great.  That was a pleasure to work, and it was interesting to see the bees build a natural brood nest.  I'm going with foundationless frames to mimmick the top bar hive with the ease of using the frames.  If you would like one ready made, send me a PM. 

justgojumpit

[homer]

>I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this idea.

I've done many similar hives.  My main purpose was to eliminate lifting though.  So with a double wide deep (such as that one) I try to get the brood at one end and the supers on the other.

How do you isolate the honey from the brood if you have a long box like that though.  I like the idea as well, but it seems that it would be more difficult to keep the queen out of the honey.

[HAB]

The next answer was better.

[Brian D. Bray]

I was looking at this hive design on Beesource.com.  Looks like an interesting idea, and the guy says that it is one of his best honey producers, but I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this idea.

Sorry, I don't know how to post pics or I would, but here is a link to the site.

http://www.beesource.com/eob/condo/index.htm

That's a fairly common configuration for a 2 queen, 2 brood box hive.  It will go gangbusters on production if the brood chambers are 2 boxes deep and then the offset supers above that.  In this setup it is importand to have a queen excluder set under the super.to keep both queens down in their respective brood chambers.