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Those lighter colored bees are nurse bees freshly emerged. As they get older their hair will begin to darken and even fall out to where they look stark black as you can easily see the carapace normally covered by hair.

How did you learn woodworking?

hey: why not putting your LS-deep frames vertically??? Beekeepers do this for centuries .. The variations are called: Layens, Mellifera.. and: please insulate your very big hive and please think about what bees prefer, that is not : vertical frames in horizontal hives but: vertical frames in vertical hives :)

Great design and well done construct hive, thank you to inspire me with your top making idea

Thanks for sharing your ideas but I believe those frames would be hard to pull them out with bees, second wax and propolis will stick them like glue together and they won’t slide to take a part.

Should melt that wax,so valuable

You can rub "gulf wax" on the dove tail frame slides.

I like the graphics, but will we be getting a more comprehensive look at gameplay and how the game works? This video doesn't really explain a whole lot.

Congratulations David!! 🎉🎉🎉

pretty cool they moved in

Does the sliding dovetail get mucked up with propolis and burr comb?

Does your queen lay on both sides of the center bar?

I would love to see the design for the removable hanger bar. I’m interested in incorporating the slim profile of your 2.0 design, but would love to have a removable hanger that could basically make these frames compatible with Langstroth style boxes. I’d like to get an idea of how the removable hanger looks so I can alter it.

Do you have plans for the original frame with the removable hanger?

How has overwintering been on this hive so far?

Do you ever get the queen laying brood on both sides of the dovetail bar?

Nice one. Are you selling this tool?

The Earth is 6000 years old. no more.

Could you build a one piece without the middle bar, but with the same outer dimensions?

nice job would love to know about the electronics inside and display

What as great job based on well thought out principles. on the well-being of the bees The only thing you might want to do, is add a blanking strip to your dovetail slot at the bottom of the bottom frame to stop the bee from filling the slot with propolis. Also, the deeper the frames, the greater the risk of crushing bees, greater still if the attached frames slide apart.. Further design can help negate this risk. I love fact that you have actually created your design. Well done again!!

Have you thought about changing the inner basket for the honey extractor? If you changed it, you wouldn't have to have the frame divided into two pieces and you would still be able to extract honey. Instead of bothering with frames all the time, you will only bother once when adjusting the honey extractor. There are also hives (Leyens, look for example for Dr Leo Sharaskin on the youtube) which have high frames and can be used in honey extractor.

The shop looks great! I hope that you’re doing well!

Awesome!!! Good luck!!!

David, I was unable to find out the weight of your 2.0 Horizondal beehive( empty). Do you have this information? I have already trouble on trying to understand the measures, as we do use metric... and Dadant... but trying to figure out the weight, .. its probably too much

David, you rock!!!

Excellent work

what makes it horizontal? the orientation is the same as all hives.

i dont see why you call these "horizontal". if you do not expand horizontally,its just a deeper(longer) hive box. good marketing ploy,tho! but misleading. no offense,i really like much of what ive seen from you. the x2 frames are very nice! i especially like the one with thje dowel,none separable one. i will make them one day,myself.

Very cool, thanks for sharing. Have you see Layerns hives? Deep horizontal hive, size of frame inbeteeen your double Langstroth and single langstroth.

If something is a really good idea you do not have to force it on people. If you do some research you will most likely find that this law came in shortly after tge pattent was approved on Langstroths hives. This is how things happen so often. Grease the right palms and they ensure you make a good profit.

You may have caught those small hive beatles just in time. Freeze those frames to kill any eggs and larvae before they reproduce.

The vinyl bee barn has everything that you're talking about.

Looks like a great idea, Waiting for an update.

These aren't new ideas. Double deep horizontal hives have been used in many country's fort hundreds of years. Check out Lazutin, or layens .

Message to David Strout from Mike Purcell UK. Your analysis into understanding bee behavior that culminated into the now famous "sliding dovetail deep Langstroth frame" is quite honestly inspired and a genus innovative design. In your 1st video you came up with the idea of having a sliding dovetail for the top bar, this too was a brilliant idea because it allowed frames to be interchangeable. The 1st instinct of bees is to always draw comb starting from the top, with your design the bee keeper can do the old "switch a rooney", switch the top to the bottom and bottom to the top which gets bees drawing out comb in record time. Good luck with your endeavors and keep the broadcasting going....Cheers

Wow, you've really thought out all the aspects of concern very well!! Other than selling the plans for building do you plan to sell completed hives or the hive components for assembly, etc.? Thank you.

I would like to see what has happened now that it's been a year.

Did the bees propolize your double frame dovetail joints such that they are now frozen? This has been my biggest hang up in wanting to build 'em. Bees add propolis to everything!

Are you laying inner boards above your frames?

I recently bought your plans for your double deep frames and I’ve built 33 of them for a new hive. As I’ve started building the hive I’ve realized I may not fully understand how it all works together. Could you answer a couple of questions? 1 - When assembled in the hive - the 1 3/8 frame hangers (top most part of frame) all fit flush against each other so that there’s no space for the bees to move across the top of the frames like they can when you use regular frames. Is this correct? On your September 2022 Hive Update video your hive seemed to have wooden slats on the top of your frames, so I got worried that perhaps I built my frames incorrectly and there should be space to allow the bees access to the top. 2 - Given the bees can’t access the top of the frames, what technique do you use to feed your bees. I was planning to use a division board feeder, but that won’t work with this set up if the bees can’t access the top of the frames. Thanks for your help. I like your videos.

i am OBSESSED with this ending

What would be your thoughts on joining a shallow or medium frame to a deep instead of a double deep?

the downside of vino farms frame,...it is for brood only and cant be extracted,like yours which can

have you seen vino farms double frame,how has your worked out?

The double frames are a great idea, but i cant help but think the bees will glue them all up with wax and propolis over time rendering them unworkable

Would you consider selling sets of your double hive frames?.. Thank you for the amazing videos.

This is a very good idea and I would be interested in seeing some real hive data on this and others experiences as to what the bees do to the joints and if they will propolyze the joints and by doing so they will become near impossible to disassemble without breaking the material. thoughts? great job!

I like the bigger frame. I do NOT like the bar in the middle since that is where bees initially winter. separating the cluster may be a very bad thing with a winter like we are having this year 2022/2023. Bees are also reluctant to build below that middle bar.