Mastodawn

Yesterday I bought 12 cinder blocks. My idea was to set up 4 for each hive with 4 more as a backup. Just to experiment, I set them up 2 and 3 high. When the kid got home from school we went out with hive tools and pretended like we were working them (they are still empty.)

It was determined that the 3 high is better and the kid wants a solid tower of 3x3 blocks to make it more stable and less wiggly. Thus I went from having 4 extra to 6 too few in the matter of minutes. I'm absolutely not buying 9 extras for a backup so I'll wait until we need more hives before buying any more.

#beekeeping

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Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

@geniodiabolico stable is very good once you're working with sticky boxes!
Also, remember that you'll be adding super/s, with any luck, and will want to look down into those too. Too low is not good but too high can be challenging in a different way.

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Dave Slusher - Tech Stuff

@danamcfarland We do have that in mind. If we add a second brood box on top we will remove a layer of cinder blocks so that when we get to honey supers they are not too tall to easily work with.