British Standard Bee Hive Frame Dimensions

It is suited to more prolific bees and is an alternative to brood and a half or langstroth.

British standard bee hive frame dimensions.

Bs national standard brood box with frames shown through cutaway two frames removed to show detail. These are the top bars for all the frames. 1 x 6 clear pine. No part of any hive box apart from lug seating parts should be more or less than a bee space from any of its parts.

British standard commercial bee hive frame dimensions. 17 x 1 1 16 x 3 4. The above are the external dimensions of the hoffman type british standard brood frame. Drill two 1 8 holes 1 3 4 apart and centered along the long.

Length of the side bar. The hoffman shallow frame dimensions are shown in the drawing above and the deep 14 x 12 frame is in the drawing below. The main boxes are 18 460mm square in footprint. The main walls are 19mm thick.

These are the external dimensions of the british standard brood frame that has the shorter 19 mm lugs. Cut a saw kerf groove centered along the entire length 1 8 wide. The standard brood boxes being 8 225mm tall and the shallow super 5 150mm tall. Some beekeepers use national supers on commercial brood boxes others vice versa.

Originally the national major frame was 16 x 10 with a 17 1 2 top bar but the top bar was reduced the to 17 3 16 and this frame design and the american style box that simmins designed to suit it became the british standard commercial hive but i do not know what date the adoption of it as a british standard occurred. 5 9 16 x 1 3 8 x 3 8. The external size is the same as the national although the frame size is different.