Thornes Dartington hive

[Tom Bick]

Why do people add supers to a long deep (or Dartington)? Why don't they use it just like an ordinary top bar hive with the brood nest on one side and honey frames on the other? Is it that they don't want to put deep frames into an extractor - and would that that be the only reason for adding supers (with the bee-leaking problem)?

Lol if only the bees would see it like that. They seem to store honey differently in a long hive over a vertical hive as they don't store a great deal in a long hive. Move the bees into a vertical hive and keep providing them with space to fill and they will fill it and keep filling providing the conditions are favourable.

 

[Finman]

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Darlington type hive has been very popular in many European countries.
It has been splended hive, but why not any more? It has been used 70 years ago in same way as Darlinton describes few years ago.

Strange hive. It is full of all kinds of hope. It is like automat. It almost nurse itself.

At same time the hive may be full of bees and at same time one half of hive is ready to make artificial swarm.
Actually the hive is small. Without supers the room is aqual to two normal brood boxes.

 

[hedgerow pete]

i used to have a set of 6 that were home made, they are a brilliant hive to use and work as long as they are static,

as for robins design its a simple one that works very well, some of the manipulations are hard to learn but once done they are easy enough to run through