Kenyan Top Bar Hive Plans

These are the long sides.

Kenyan top bar hive plans.

Cut a saw. Constructing a kenya top bar hive plywood preparation. Bevel the top long edge so that the outside height measurement of the board is 9. You ll be making around 30 top bars along with additional spacers.

Fitting the queen. You will get enough top bars for one hive from one 6metre length. Build 31 top bars 35mm wide x 500mm long. Entering the beehive from one side means that only a small number of bees are disturbed at a time rather than thousands of angry bees reacting to just having their.

These are the leg posts of the stand. As well as htbh such as the kenyan and tanzanian there are also vtbh vertical such as the warre. The kenyan top bar hive beekeeping naturally promotes the kenyan top bar hive as one of the most effective natural bee hives for backyard and small scale beekeepers bee carers. Attach each follower board to a top bar 5mm from one edge of the top bar.

The spacer should be 3 16 to 1 4 wide and 19 long. The example pictured above the one i built was a luxury version with all new pine. Cut list for a kenya top bar hive elevated hive stand. Pine cyprus grevillia robusta.

If you buy one 6 metre length of 35mm x 90mm untreated pine timber studs you can cut it into 500mm lengths and rip each length into 3 top bars. The kenyan was designed to be low tech low cost and simple to build using available materials. You can use whatever timber tthat is cheap and available locally. Since each top bar accounts for only half of the bee space required between combs a spacer should be placed between the first bar and the side of the hive.