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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 3742" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>For me this is one of the biggest drawbacks of top bar hives as you have to pull a whole hive apart to see what's happening. With a conventional hive or a long hive using conventional frames as soon as you take the lid off you can learn a lot about what's happening in the hive. Personally I would put up with having to scrape them occasionally but you could just put top boards of straight plywood on top. Most top boards in New Zealand iincluding all of mine have too much top clearance i.e. more than a bee space above the frames so they are always filled up with honey and wax whenever the hive gets full. Way back in the day when all our hives were on individual floors the vast majority of our lids just sat straight on top of the frames and they worked fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 3742, member: 207"] For me this is one of the biggest drawbacks of top bar hives as you have to pull a whole hive apart to see what's happening. With a conventional hive or a long hive using conventional frames as soon as you take the lid off you can learn a lot about what's happening in the hive. Personally I would put up with having to scrape them occasionally but you could just put top boards of straight plywood on top. Most top boards in New Zealand iincluding all of mine have too much top clearance i.e. more than a bee space above the frames so they are always filled up with honey and wax whenever the hive gets full. Way back in the day when all our hives were on individual floors the vast majority of our lids just sat straight on top of the frames and they worked fine. [/QUOTE]
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