Top Bar Hive For Sale Uk

I started beekeeping in top bar hives in 2002.

Top bar hive for sale uk. Top bar hive beekeeping. At last a hive tool designed specifically for use in top bar hives. These two top bar hives were ordered some time ago and are now ready to be shipped out to our customer richard who lives in france. Wisdom pleasure combined by wyatt a.

The sort of place that bees would naturally choose for a nest. The cornish top bar hive is our own design a result of experimentation and experience with current beekeeping practices in mind as well as the needs of the bees it has many unique features not found in generic top bar hives. The top bar design sets out to emulate a fallen hollow log. Also excellent for use with w.

I started selling a few hives and sold one to bbc gardeners world for monty don to use. I followed this with a second hive making a few tweaks along the way. With a top bar hive you ll have a stress free set up and can avoid the labor of heavy lifting. We only use western red cedar for the construction of our hives cheaper woods such as pine or plywood are not used.

The orders took off. The horizontal top bar bee hive is an interesting alternative method of keeping bees. Free shipping on orders over 75. Generally the bars are a wooden wedge or strip with a guide to ensure combs hang straight.

Wisdom pleasure combined by wyatt a. The bees build their comb down from these bars naturally without the use of a 4 sided frame or foundation. Each top bar hive comes equipped with all the essential components that help make beekeeping efficient. I run 1 day workshops in building the hive.

We pride ourselves on producing a premium quality hive. Top bar hives and beekeeping supplies including top bar beehives with windows adjustable legs hinged roofs. I initially followed the design on the biobees website. Guaranteed to ship within 48 hours.

It features individual bars laid across the top of the hive cavity. At top bar beehives we manufacture premium quality top bar beehives. Nice to know our quality workmanship is appreciated. This particular design is a large solidly made one well suited to sheltering bees through cold uk winters.

Each hive is custom built in our workshop in wiltshire. That s what we do and we are very good at it. Each top bar hive has various color options available which includes painted or natural. Showing 1 to 3 of 3 1 pages.

For accessories for your discontinued top bar hive see the discontinued top bar hive collection. Apparently once our previous top bar hive had been seen on the peak hives website no other would do.