British Standard Bee Hive Frame Dimensions

Length of the side bar.

British standard bee hive frame dimensions. 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. The main walls are 19mm thick. The external size is the same as the national although the frame size is different. 1 x 6 clear pine.

Commercial hive is also known as 16 x 10 and has a larger volume. Bs national standard brood box with frames shown through cutaway two frames removed to show detail. These are the side bars for the shallow frames. These are the top bars for all the frames.

British standard commercial bee hive frame dimensions. There is also some usage of it in hive boxes that are designed on the same footprint as the langstroth hive and usually carry 13 such frames arranged across the box. 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. 5 9 16 x 1 3 8 x 3 8.

The above are the external dimensions of the hoffman type british standard brood frame. 17 x 1 1 16 x 3 4. The main boxes are 18 460mm square in footprint. Some beekeepers use national supers on commercial brood boxes others vice versa.

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