Folding Bee Hive Stand Plans

This stand elevates several hives 18 inches off the ground.

Folding bee hive stand plans.

The pressure treated pine and exterior grade screws will withstand the weather and the 60 inch platform will comfortably hold up to three 10 frame or. Warre hives are the middle ground between langstroth and top bar. Even in our earliest beekeeping years hive stands were unloved. An item you use to hold a beehive off the ground.

This is a building bee hive plan for the warre or vertical top bar bee hive. Top bar hives are perfect for small scale beekeeping or hobbyist who doesn t want to lift more than 40lbs. Easy project using nothing but a table saw and a drill or screw driver. I read in an old log cabin building book that if you build a structure 18 inches off the ground that crawling insects are less likely to reach the structure.

Here s a quick and inexpensive way to build a hive stand with a. 18 inches also seems to be the magic number to detour skunks. 9 kiss langstroth bee hives by bbe tech. The length of the top bar is 315mm the floor board can be measured from 15 to 20mm the floor boxes should be 1mm and the entrance notch in the floor should be 40mm to stay rigid.

This is a heavy duty hive stand that will last years if you take care of it by painti. In some of the old photos beekeepers cut sections of old. Many beekeepers put all of their hives on this kind of stand. All 4 legs are able to fold under the stand making the whole platform portable and storable.

So you feel that using a good part of the wagon space to load hive stands is a good idea. 38 langstroth top bar and warre hive plans 1. Now let s begin with the first beehive plans. The colorado top bar beehive.

You travel at a glacial pace out and back. The dimensions of this stand are ideal for a. The figure shows plans to help you build your own elevated hive stand. An elevated hive stand is exactly what it sounds like.

The best parts of our 3 hive stands are each one is extremely strong while still being collapsable.