The swarm that moved into my long lang has mostly filled out 15 frames of comb. The one problem I have with this style of hive, so far, is getting into the brood area. With a standard lang, you just take your top supers off and there you are. With the long lang, to make space to remove a brood frame, I have to start at the far end of the box, trying to shift all the frames backward to make enough room to take out a brood frame.
Maybe I have my frames packed too tight. Maybe my bees are a little glue happy... and they are...
Maybe I should leave some space in front of the first frame (by the top entrance), then I can move it forward a bit and have some immediate wiggle room tin the brood frames. I just thought that all the frames are supposed to be snugged up tight, especially with foundationless.