Here's some pictures:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmhweWaaI finished building last week the DW10 ten frame "SwingView" observation hive from plans from
www.bonterrabees.com. It was straight forward enough. The bulk of it is built out of three 2x4's that I had lying around and then a few pieces of select 1" pine. The only real expense was the glass.
Anyway, I picked up the nuc from a local bee keeper Saturday. I left it sit outside near where the observation hive exit was going to be. The next day I set the hive out and move the frames over. This was relatively non-traumatic other than I had set the nuc on a 5 gallon paint bucket and promptly kicked the whole thing over before I got started but the bees weren't too annoyed. Moving the frames was straight-forward, but I was curious how dumping the bees that were in the bottom of the nuc box into the hive was going to be, but since the hive was leaning at a slight angle bumping the box on the top of the hive did about the same thing as doing it over a regular hive body. I thought getting that big piece of glass back into place over the bees was going to be dicey but it wasn't bad.
I left the whole thing outside until the bees went in at night and shut the gate and then wheeled it up and put it on the bracket. This morning I got up to find them coming and going just fine (they're bringing in a lot of pollen). I caught sight of the queen (we're calling her Bee-atrice), so it looks like the installation was succesful. It's need watching the waggle dance when the girls come back loaded. My wife says I need to put a bench or something in front of it to make it easier to watch.