Top Bar Beehive Roof

The spacer should be 3 16 to 1 4 wide and 19 long.

Top bar beehive roof.

A top bar beehive is a single story frameless beehive where the comb hangs from removable wooden bars. Your top bar hive needs some type of roof to go over the flat lid of the hive. Instead of using frames like a langstroth hive top bar hives have bars across the top of the hive body. It features individual bars laid across the top of the hive cavity.

38 langstroth top bar and warre hive plans. Top bar hives and beekeeping supplies including top bar beehives with windows adjustable legs hinged roofs. Top bar hives allow beekeeping methods that interfere much less with the bee colony allowing it to be more natural. I liked the idea of incorporating ventilation into the roof and the look of a gabled roof on top of a hive looked great.

Typically the bars are tapered and beveled at the bottom encouraging the bees to build their comb straight along each bar. Guaranteed to ship within 48 hours. Free shipping on orders over 75. Use shims of various widths for the other end of the hive to make a tight seal.

For accessories for your discontinued top bar hive see the discontinued top bar hive collection. While this obscures some of the effort involved in manufacturing a top bar this simplicity is one reason it has been so popular. This roof had the right combination of purpose and esthetics. A ventilated gabled roof is one of my favorite pieces of beekeeping equipment.

At a high level it is effectively a box on legs with a cover. Whether it is a cathedral hive or a regular top bar hive proper ventilation from a roof is needed. This unique component is what gives the top bar hives its name. The top bar hive is the oldest and most commonly used hive style in the world.

Now i just had to give it a few city boy extras in order to personalize my hive. Since each top bar accounts for only half of the bee space required between combs a spacer should be placed between the first bar and the side of the hive. The top bar hive is designed with the beekeeper in mind both in terms of the construction effort and the management of the hive once installed. Warre hives are the middle ground between langstroth and top bar.

They re designed to provide the appropriate amount of bee space between comb sections as well as between the comb and the hive body. A top bar bee box has bars from which the honey bees attach and hang the wax comb an array of hexagon six sides cells. Since a summer beehive is loaded with moisture from both bee respiration and drying nectar the hive can quickly become a damp mold infested environment that is not healthy for bees or good for making honey. With a top bar hive the combs can become very soft and fragile if the hive is overheating.

Now let s begin with the first beehive plans. The bees build their comb down from these bars naturally without the use of a 4 sided frame or foundation. Top bar hives are always rectangular in shape and are typically more than twice as wide as many story framed hives.