Do you have a top-bar hive? How big is it?

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Hello everyone

I'm curious to find out what are the average measurements for top-bar hives in the field, whether home-made or store bought. If you have a top-bar hive, please tell me where you got it and also what its outside measurements are, according to this schematic:

I only need A, B and C. Also please tell me how long is your top-bar hive (i.e. mm, inch, or number of bars).

Then I can expand my spreadsheet:

Thanks
Samuel

 

[For want of a better word]

I borrowed a follower and made my top bar to this
Follower size is
Bottom 5" (127mm)
top 14 11/16" ( 372mm)
side wall 12" (305mm)

fixed top bar to follower is 17" long x1 3/16 wide x 9/16 deep (430 x 30 x 14)

top bars are of same size or some smaller 1"....

length is 48" (1220)
open mesh floor

entrance x3 are centralised with one opposite at each end.

Lid has a condersor box filled with Alpaca wool amd fits over top bars and guide runner along length to hold in place ( ie prevent side slippage)
Roof sits on legs as per Phill's design
The Alpaca wood gives a high degree of insulation and controls humidity in hive.

I keep NZ Italian bees in it.

By far and away better than the Dartingtingtong Top bar hives I had in the past, no problem without a frame 9 in fact if a frame is used as with the box types bees just brace comb in the frames to the sides!

Also.. whole top bar was boiled in pure beeswax after assembly!

Mytten da