Beekeeping is a wonderful pastime, and like all situations where people keep livestock or pets, it comes with a responsibility to maintain their health and wellbeing . With bees you have legislated obligations to do regular inspections of the health of the brood area.
Inability to open and lift the boxes in a regular hive due to physical limitation such as slight build, back problems, or a lack of strength, can result in these inspections not being carried out frequently enough and can result in disease destroying the hive and potentially being passed on to other healthy hives.
Our hives have the frames stacked horizontally as opposed to vertically like a regular hive. The bees enter the hive at one end and the first section is the brood section. There is then a vertical queen excluder, and after that is honey section which holds up to 16 full depth Langstroth frames. There are individual lids over the brood and honey sections.
When it is time to do a brood inspection you simply hinge up the roof and remove the lid over the brood section and carry out your inspection. The most you have to lift at any one time is a full frame of honey weighing approximately 2.5 kg. The system is especially suited to experienced beekeepers who already have all the bees and frames but now find they no longer have the strength to lift a full honey super. They can just move them across to the horizontal hive.
If you are interested in purchasing, or have any questions, you can read our FAQs here or contact us here.
Click here to view assembly instructions online or here for a printable version.
Horizon Beehives 