Slovenian hive in USA

[Perry]

I always thought this was an awesome way to keep bees.

http://keepingbackyardbees.com/the-slovenian-beehive-arrives-in-the-us/

[apisbees]

They look pretty...
But at the price of honey in north America I dough it will pay for itself. High labor inputs Not mobile for pollination if on fixed stands, and if it is mobile the extraction has to be mobile and go to the hives. On some of the intense flows we can have, this hive doesn't provide enough honey storage comb for the bees to store and ripen the honey. There is a reason that Rev Langstroth back in 1852 decided this type of hive didn't work in north America and invented the top load removable frame hive, that the supers could be stacked as high as needed to contain the honey flow.
And I wont even start on the single brood chamber. This is a hive designed to swarm so they can be collected to repopulate any dead outs.

[LazyBkpr]

   I looked at many of those designs when I designed the bee sheds I built in Maine. As Apis said, the lack of ability to expand and or remove supers caused me to discard that type of actual hive and design the bottom board to accept Lang style boxes.
    If and when I get spare money I hope to build ten of those sheds for my own use here. Moveable because they are on skids... pull them on the trailer, drive them where needed and pull them off. Insulated from wind, movable, bear resistant, and still easy to work. When the cover/boxes are removed, the bees immediately head for the open vent panel where the light is coming in, or the open door.  I was astounded at how much they left me alone, even when breaking down the hives.