Sasha, I got your message, but I was not here when it came. My computer was in the middle of having a problem, so I could not reply when I saw the message. As...
Hi All, I'm new to beekeeping and TBHs and really grateful I stumbled across this group. I've just started building my first TBH and have a question about...
You should not be cutting notches into the topbars unless you are putting a super directly over the notched bars. You will quickly discover why you don't want...
Hi Scot, Thanks for the suggestion about the notches and vent holes. When you say that the holes should be in the top center of the back of the hive do you...
Hi Scot, just built 3 tbh's and 100 tb's with notches for observation. I thought I would cover the notches with something, maybe a long towel or 1" strip of...
Hi folks, I had a chat with K. Ruby about having the East Bay TBH/organic beekeepers' club meeting, starting in the beginning of Feb. We decided on Wednesday...
If you cover the notches with something, they will glue it down...If you leave it open, the bees will build comb above the top bars... If you want to see how...
I mean the back of the hive body. The cover is a separate thing. Most people when they talk about doing something to the hive or to the cover, they will talk...
Its only advice, not a criticism... Thanks Scot, would never consider anyone advice as criticism even though it ........ Dave Skowhegan, ME [Non-text portions...
Does anyone have any suggestions about whether it would be practical to tranfer frames/comb from a lang nuc into a 16" wide Kenyan TBH? Could the side and...
I have a thought, wedge two straps of wood far enough apart in the the kenya hive so you can put the full frames in side ways, maybe 3 or 4 of them. If you...
I put a call in to the Ecology Center to see about space again, but I didn't actually ask Les (I'm sure he'll be into it). I know he's coming again in Febuary....
I talked to Les Crowder last night to see about setting up another presentation (last year he did one at Ecology Center in Berkeley), and at the moment it...
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Hello beeks, Myself and K. Ruby are having a get-together for top bar hive beekeepers in Berkeley/East Bay area on Feb 7th. I think the meetup will be at my ...
I lost 2 of my 3 hives, sigh. One was SO productive this last year and had lots of honey stores, so I really don't know what went wrong. The other hive was a...
Many things can go wrong - not enough food,mites, other health related problems etc. You have to find out what happened. What are the symptoms,what did you see...
Girl mark wrote: "I have a hive in the backyard (not that we'll be able to see all that much of it) and I'll bring an empty screen bottom TBH and some of those...
Hi Mark, I wasn't able to get the slide show to play. Is there another image somewhere of this type of cut out frame? Thanks, (boy) Erin ... summer ... ...
you can cut and paste the beesource discussion link into your browser (yahoo chops it up so I won't give it again) and it shows the complete discussion and a...
Hello, I've been on this list for a while, lurking and learning. I now have an opportunity to finally get a top bar hive made this year. A woman from my...
Pop up a google window and enter: "top bar hive" OR "topbar hive" OR topbarhive the OR's must be uppercase. This will locate a multitude of sites describing...
If I had to do it all over again and didn't have a local community of TBH'ers who swap hive parts and brood combs at times, I"d suggest doing a combination...
I'll second that. Gives quite a bit more versatility. This is in fact how I am designing my new TBH's. I hope to be trying out both a KTBH that can be supered...
