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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Edward on February 01, 2014, 07:56:13 am

Title: Frame size?
Post by: Edward on February 01, 2014, 07:56:13 am

What do you guys call a frame that is 44.5 cm/17.52 inches wide and 28.5 cm/11.22 inches Deep or tall ?

and one that is 44.5 cm/17.52 inches wide and 15.8 cm/6.22 inches Deep or tall ?


mvh Edward   :P

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: iddee on February 01, 2014, 08:00:19 am

ODDBALL...  ;D :D :D

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: DLMKA on February 01, 2014, 08:21:54 am

I don't know but a box full of them full would need a tractor with a loader to pick them up.

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: Edward on February 01, 2014, 08:31:52 am

Quote from: iddee on February 01, 2014, 08:00:19 am

ODDBALL...  ;D :D :D

 :D :laugh: :D It usually gives me great pleasure taking stock, looking around at what everybody else is doing, and then do the absolute opposite.  :laugh:

Only dead fish go with the flow  8)


I use 10 big frames as a brood chamber and the small frames as supers. In sweden they are quite common the here the big one we call dadant- full dadant. The shorter one 3/4 langstroth.


I was wondering what the equivalent is in English or american size frames? Its hard to explain how I keep my bees if I don't know what size my boxes are in English  :sad:


mvh Edward  :P

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: Edward on February 01, 2014, 08:47:03 am

Quote from: DLMKA on February 01, 2014, 08:21:54 am

I don't know but a box full of them full would need a tractor with a loader to pick them up.

 :laugh:
I have used them as a super to make drawn frames for expansion. Taking them out one by one brushing of bees and putting them in an empty box. Then when the box was full tried to pick it up   >:(
The profanity flowed freely from my mouth wondering who the ---- has nailed the box to the floor  >:(


mvh Edward  :P
(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs10.postimg.cc%2F70mkv8w51%2F19072010619.jpg&hash=9a748196aecd491a977decd2b2c90b3f83f4a737) (http://postimg.cc/image/70mkv8w51/)

(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs27.postimg.cc%2Fv15cbtnhr%2F19072010621.jpg&hash=b431225c8d7acc8facfb439d6d5d407f58f53034) (http://postimg.cc/image/v15cbtnhr/)

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: iddee on February 01, 2014, 08:55:46 am

I have heard of the dadant deeps and the 7 1/2 in. supers, but have never worked with them. Don't think I want to.

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: Edward on February 01, 2014, 09:06:13 am

The supers are about 6 1/4 inch and a full box of honey weighs about 21kg/46.3 Pounds


mvh Edward   :P

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: Perry on February 01, 2014, 10:26:43 am

Up here:
Deep is 9 5/8" tall (box)
Mediums are 6 5/8" tall
Shallows (not too common) are 5 3/4" tall

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: riverbee on February 01, 2014, 11:54:58 am

nice pix edward, here those would be called the jumbo dadant, i think?  i don't know of anyone that uses these.

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: apisbees on February 01, 2014, 12:15:52 pm

The large size frames are called jumbo size they fit a super made from 1 X 12 lumber. Bees do really well in a single jumbo brood box as there is all the space the queen needs to lay in in 8 frames, leaving the outside ones for nectar and pollen.

Title: Re: Frame size?
Post by: Barbarian on February 01, 2014, 04:28:21 pm

Dipped into my Thorne's catalogue. Came up with Dadant hive. Frame ... 19" top bar (including lugs). 11.25" or 6.25" side bars. 11 Hoffman frames in a box.

The hive looks like a Swienty polystyrene job.