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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 5462" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>great to see your doing the course. sounds like your committed.</p><p>sorry it seams like people are putting you off but you need to do beekeeping for beekeeping not because of other things.</p><p>there is many pages of people who started beekeeping for "pollinate my garden", "save the world" etc and they end up with a bunch of dead hives in the garden. 50% of beginners do not make it to 2nd season.</p><p>the other thing the amount of wax off hives is not very much. i suspect you would require more wax than what your own hives would produce.</p><p></p><p>top bar hives are really for pro's. they are really for retired beeks who can attend to them every day.</p><p>they are not suitable for beginners. the top bar frames are light, but your dealing with a lot more of them constantly.</p><p>i think thats what your mentor is not considering.</p><p>also purely production wise, horizontal hives have less production. bees naturally go vertical and the larger production shows it (which is why all commercial hives are vertical).</p><p>with horizontal hives you have to force the bees to go sideways, hence why you need to manipulate them much more, which means more lifting etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 5462, member: 30"] great to see your doing the course. sounds like your committed. sorry it seams like people are putting you off but you need to do beekeeping for beekeeping not because of other things. there is many pages of people who started beekeeping for "pollinate my garden", "save the world" etc and they end up with a bunch of dead hives in the garden. 50% of beginners do not make it to 2nd season. the other thing the amount of wax off hives is not very much. i suspect you would require more wax than what your own hives would produce. top bar hives are really for pro's. they are really for retired beeks who can attend to them every day. they are not suitable for beginners. the top bar frames are light, but your dealing with a lot more of them constantly. i think thats what your mentor is not considering. also purely production wise, horizontal hives have less production. bees naturally go vertical and the larger production shows it (which is why all commercial hives are vertical). with horizontal hives you have to force the bees to go sideways, hence why you need to manipulate them much more, which means more lifting etc. [/QUOTE]
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