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Title: Blog post - Hive body repair with the bees still inside. Exciting.
Post by: Rurification on July 22, 2012, 07:51:36 am

We have a horizontal hive body that needed some tweaking because the bees didn't want to use all of it.  This is how we did it.

http://rurification.blogspot.com/2012/07/hive-repair-tardis.html (http://rurification.blogspot.com/2012/07/hive-repair-tardis.html)

Here's one of the pics. 

(http://s17.postimage.org/89ntk8r7f/chiseling_out_bottom_support_tardis.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/89ntk8r7f/)

Title: Re: Blog post - Hive body repair with the bees still inside. Exciting.
Post by: Sour Kraut on July 22, 2012, 10:42:53 am

Why is the 'bottom support' necessary ?   The frames look to be normal sized, just more of them than a 'regular' hive

There is no need for support at the bottom in a 10-frame width, why in a 'x' frame wide hive ?