sorry about the wind noise, that side of the house always has a breeze - power just now came back on after being without for about 16 hours so that means I also have an upcoming video on how to keep 5 day old baby chics warm without a heat lamp lol .... also, off to build 2 more long hives but these are my own design entirely.
@@Bouncin-Thoughts I think i recorded building these as a how to video and then didn't post it because there were a billion other how to build langstroth long videos. Mine might be a little different because i basically made it up as i went but its pretty easy to do if you have any knowledge of building things. I mean, its basically just a box sized to fit langstroth bee frames. However, i do have a different long hive video coming up soon that solves a lot of the problems (actually all of the problems) people using langstroth long hives face (i intentionally built these to test my theory why they were having issues), especially in colder climates.
Thanks for watching. Its a pretty simple design but let me know if you have any questions or get stuck anywhere. Thanks for your concern, I'm not fully recovered yet, I think the recovery from chemo and radiation was harder than the chemo and radiation treatments but I'm alive and still here and taking it day by day.....each day does get just a little bit better, but its at a rate so slow you don't notice it day by day but you notice comparing today to say 6 months ago. Its been a journey for sure.
I am getting on in years and have been thinking of changing over to Langstroth long hives, I think it will save me a whole lot of back and knee pain that I suffer when bending. For my Regular cedar Langstroth hives I use a wipe on polyester waterbased clear coat using a foam brush, its much easier to apply than even thinned paint and will never crack like paint eventually does.
Thanks for the suggestion on sealer. With langstroth long hives, there is a little bit of a learning curve. I'm kinda thinking people wouldn't realize how different they were if they were new to beekeeping but someone with experience is going to see the differences right away. Climate is going to be a huge player in how well they over-winter as that seems to be the biggest issue i have seen for zone 6b.
I built 2 long langs last year, love them. Plan to build 2 or 3 more over this winter. I like your tall roof, mine are too short to use anything bigger than a pint jar for a feeder. Mine also have a lower compartment with 1/8 inch hardware cloth seperating it from the hive area, this is for putting a pan of cooking oil under the brood area for hive Beatles and mites and yes it works. I only made a single entrance, I have vent holes in 2 of my cover boards covered with 1/8 as well as closable vents in the bottom chamber. I splayed my legs wider in case of high winds, I'm not more than 75 miles from the gulf of Mexico and we do occasionally get hurricanes here. I'd suggest you drill a few small holes in your bottom in case you have water leak in. Those long hives are easy on a man with a bad back. Good luck!
thanks for the recommendations. I mostly built the langstroth long hive to use so I could measure its finished size for a custom long hive I wanted to build. The custom long hive I had in mind was using features i liked from each of several long hive styles (langstroth, layens, and lazutin hives) while leaving out the features i didn't like. I built 2 of them to test along with the langstroth long hive. When I originally built these long hives, they all had the 3 entrances but it didn't take me long to block off 2 of them on each hive. Even with the divider boards, other bees, hornets, and wasps were constantly coming and going out of those additional entrances. That stopped once I blocked them off. I probably should have done a video on that ... but there are only so many hours in the day lol.
i don't think I actually measured anything for the gable ends ... I basically had the box built and freehand built the roof support pieces and just eyeballed it for the first end (If my memory is correct, which often times it isn't post cancer ... I may have used a piece of cardboard to make a template by tracing the roof support pieces and then transferred that to the plywood for the gable ends) . Once I had the first end cut to size I just duplicated it for the other end. Sorry thats not much help but hopefully can point you in the right direction.
one other tip ... you can take a long string like for sewing or 550 paracord .... attach each lose end to the opposing box corners on the gable ends ... raise the string up so it forms a triangle, and when its the height you like ... just use a tape measure to measure from the box corner to the top of the triangle. I may have even just measured corner to corner on the box and then made all 3 sides of the gable end the same length. I can't remember now ....
@@sharpridgehomestead Thank you, I am redoing my top as I just had a flat top, I use a frame feeder, but I will be using a jar feeder to start this year, hopefully we just had our last snowfall for the year.
@@davidweber1291 The weather has been crazy. It went from 70's last week to almost freezing the last few days. I've got splits to do i delayed due to weather and hopefully they don't swarm before i can get to them.
sorry about the wind noise, that side of the house always has a breeze - power just now came back on after being without for about 16 hours so that means I also have an upcoming video on how to keep 5 day old baby chics warm without a heat lamp lol .... also, off to build 2 more long hives but these are my own design entirely.
Please make a how to video
@@Bouncin-Thoughts I think i recorded building these as a how to video and then didn't post it because there were a billion other how to build langstroth long videos. Mine might be a little different because i basically made it up as i went but its pretty easy to do if you have any knowledge of building things. I mean, its basically just a box sized to fit langstroth bee frames. However, i do have a different long hive video coming up soon that solves a lot of the problems (actually all of the problems) people using langstroth long hives face (i intentionally built these to test my theory why they were having issues), especially in colder climates.
Watching in 2024, I like your ideas , going to try and copy your design, hope you are fully recovered
Thanks for watching. Its a pretty simple design but let me know if you have any questions or get stuck anywhere. Thanks for your concern, I'm not fully recovered yet, I think the recovery from chemo and radiation was harder than the chemo and radiation treatments but I'm alive and still here and taking it day by day.....each day does get just a little bit better, but its at a rate so slow you don't notice it day by day but you notice comparing today to say 6 months ago. Its been a journey for sure.
I am getting on in years and have been thinking of changing over to Langstroth long hives, I think it will save me a whole lot of back and knee pain that I suffer when bending.
For my Regular cedar Langstroth hives I use a wipe on polyester waterbased clear coat using a foam brush, its much easier to apply than even thinned paint and will never crack like paint eventually does.
Thanks for the suggestion on sealer. With langstroth long hives, there is a little bit of a learning curve. I'm kinda thinking people wouldn't realize how different they were if they were new to beekeeping but someone with experience is going to see the differences right away. Climate is going to be a huge player in how well they over-winter as that seems to be the biggest issue i have seen for zone 6b.
I built 2 long langs last year, love them. Plan to build 2 or 3 more over this winter. I like your tall roof, mine are too short to use anything bigger than a pint jar for a feeder. Mine also have a lower compartment with 1/8 inch hardware cloth seperating it from the hive area, this is for putting a pan of cooking oil under the brood area for hive Beatles and mites and yes it works. I only made a single entrance, I have vent holes in 2 of my cover boards covered with 1/8 as well as closable vents in the bottom chamber. I splayed my legs wider in case of high winds, I'm not more than 75 miles from the gulf of Mexico and we do occasionally get hurricanes here. I'd suggest you drill a few small holes in your bottom in case you have water leak in. Those long hives are easy on a man with a bad back. Good luck!
thanks for the recommendations. I mostly built the langstroth long hive to use so I could measure its finished size for a custom long hive I wanted to build. The custom long hive I had in mind was using features i liked from each of several long hive styles (langstroth, layens, and lazutin hives) while leaving out the features i didn't like. I built 2 of them to test along with the langstroth long hive. When I originally built these long hives, they all had the 3 entrances but it didn't take me long to block off 2 of them on each hive. Even with the divider boards, other bees, hornets, and wasps were constantly coming and going out of those additional entrances. That stopped once I blocked them off. I probably should have done a video on that ... but there are only so many hours in the day lol.
What dimensions are the gable end"s?
i don't think I actually measured anything for the gable ends ... I basically had the box built and freehand built the roof support pieces and just eyeballed it for the first end (If my memory is correct, which often times it isn't post cancer ... I may have used a piece of cardboard to make a template by tracing the roof support pieces and then transferred that to the plywood for the gable ends) . Once I had the first end cut to size I just duplicated it for the other end. Sorry thats not much help but hopefully can point you in the right direction.
one other tip ... you can take a long string like for sewing or 550 paracord .... attach each lose end to the opposing box corners on the gable ends ... raise the string up so it forms a triangle, and when its the height you like ... just use a tape measure to measure from the box corner to the top of the triangle. I may have even just measured corner to corner on the box and then made all 3 sides of the gable end the same length. I can't remember now ....
@@sharpridgehomestead Thank you, I am redoing my top as I just had a flat top, I use a frame feeder, but I will
be using a jar feeder to start this year, hopefully we just had our last snowfall for the year.
@@davidweber1291 The weather has been crazy. It went from 70's last week to almost freezing the last few days. I've got splits to do i delayed due to weather and hopefully they don't swarm before i can get to them.