I didnt thing they would organize themselves that efficiently , Good video, I like seeing things like this

That long hive is such a nice build! You don't see that quality craftsmanship too often.

Woa the nectar shake was insane

Thanks for your effort. You can put grease on the legs of the hive to prevent the rise of ants

Why is it when Laurel giggles, I giggle?

Thanks K&L, the horizontal looks great! You act like you’re feeling bad or guilty about the KY mite treatment and you SHOULD NOT! It was just a little fun and humor and everything that you do don’t have to be by the book! I bet more folks enjoyed it than didn’t! Looking forward for the next video.

Thanks Kamon!! The stings you go through to produce these videos for everyone! 😉

My neighbor told me they have had awesome results with horizontal hives:) I think that’s the style I’ll go with. Also being a disabled veteran this will help with some movement restrictions I have:)

thank you for this video! i was praying someone had a horizontal hive to show, as i think they would save my back,, i am not able to do any heavy lifting any more,,, thank you for the tips

I started with long hives because of physical condition but found limited information on them. Most beekeepers in area did not want to help so I am glad to see someone in the bee world giving new information

My Horizontal is building out faster than my 8 frames, was just telling Greg Burns that. That hive looks solid.

I built a horizontal hive last winter and I put a package of bees in it (with no drawn frames to start with) only about 6 weeks ago. Already the queen is laying in 8-9 frames and they have 6-7 frames of honey stored away. I'm using a queen excluder between the brood area and the honey area and it hasn't slowed them down one bit!

Enjoyed the video. I'm rob Pollock's dad. You make a great mentor.

Thanks for the update on the long hive. This is my first year with two of them. So far they are doing well.

My name is Ron I really enjoy your videos I’m a retired fruit and produce farmer. I’m getting into beekeeping. Back in the eighty’s pollinators were few and far in between so I rented 20 bee hives the money i spent was well worth the investment thank you again for your help I’m building horizontal hives !!!

Looks like he has added a board on the nearside to mount a frame hanger.

Currently building a long lang hive. Appreciate your videos since this will be my first horizontal. All the best.

Just add cinnamon to the list of experiments, lol. That horizontal hive is banging! Very nice frames.

Great video. Just getting started with a horizontal lang. due to limited mobility. You answered a lot of questions about management.

Tremendously enjoy your channel!!

I feel that the horizontal hive is best for the low-volume "Hobbyist" beekeeper. It's a great way to go!

Thankfully my bees are doing good

Yeah Kamon, I agree with you that long hives are good for people on wheel chair, people with bad back, for those who can only have one hive in their backyard and for those who have very short nectar flow. When the bees fill up all the limited frames then the only choice the queen will have is to swarm.

Try a layens hive next and you can put the same amount of bees and comb on a third less amount of frames.

Wow! That's what I see in the top bars, they explode.

Good video,as always.

Thanks for this! I use horizontal hives and find it challenging to find good content.

You don't remember your mama telling you be careful son where you put your fingers they may get snapped off.

*Interesting video Thx4Sharing Kamon* 👍🇺🇸

That is a nice big hive

Looks like you need to add a box🤔😄👍

we have the legs in small bowls with a little oil in the legs, that keeps the ants at bay for the most part

Nice work Kamon 💯

Super !

Hi Kamon, I have a Horizontal Langstroth Hive, using Jumbo Deep Frames. Works a treat. 👍 Think outside the Box... Mine was made from an Ex Log Storage Box, has a Built in Queen Excluder 2/3rds away from Brood Area. Can get brood free Honey 🍯 /or do a Split.... All involving no lifting heavy Brood or Super Boxes ... 👍 It also has thick double walls stuffed with 5" of Sheep's Wool, for Winter (lots of Sheep here in Scotland ! 😆 Notice your Top Covers hang over your Frames when stored up end (!) 🙄 That would drive me crazy.... Go for really thick walls, gives you a Built in Frame Holder, Top Inner Cover Rest etc, off and away from the Frames you want to lift uninterrupted. And a deep Sloping lid, gives better weather protection, inner thermal space / + extra equipment to stash, have at Hand. (Roof doesn't have to be boxed in like yours, if you use Deep Inner Boards / Mesh, over the Frames. Win, Win, Hive inspections etc. ✓ (Mine uses Garden Wind Break Mesh over all the Frames, and Timber Boards with Cabinet Handles on top of them. Some have 4" Plexi Glass Ports cut into them, great to see the Lassies (Girls) at work when Boards are in situ or not. You can lift a Board, take a peek, without even Smoke or a Suit (!!!) No bees buzzing me, but I can look down and view them. 👀 Even cut a top off a Soda Bottle, to make a Cone for the Bees to come up under / direct into the Top Feeder. That way, they didn't get mashed on removing / filling it (!) And if I do remove the Feeder, I can add the Soda Bottle Top, Screw it back on.... No Bees can get out of the 3/4" hole cut in that Mesh for direct Bee access into the Feeder and no stings on me or my thumb... Ouch their (!) Sometimes I just pop the lid up, on hinges, (with an anti tip chain anchoring Roof) to just Smell that gorgeous Hive Aroma.... 🤗 It also has a mesh floor, an old Kitchen Tea Tray as a Varroa Mite Board, in an under cupboard, that holds, my Smoker, Hive Tool, Pollen Patties, and, Paper/Card, BBQ lighter etc etc... You never know when it is going to Rain here, so all stuff is good to grab, or stuff back in quickly. We don't live off Whisky and Honey, for nothing ! Can get cold and wet here quickly. 😏 Happy Beekeeping for 2021. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

I'm going build a horizontal longstroth hive & the regular horizontal hive. Glad to see how well the horizontal langstroth is working.

I'm near Chattanooga, and have had considerable problem with ants, including needle ants, sugar ants, another species I don't know and both red and black wood ants. I tried multiple recommended solutions, including several pounds of fresh cinnamon from SamsClub -- NONE of the ants hesitated to crawl across piles of cinnamon. What is working, is metal tubular legs on my hive stand, which I keep coated with old bearing grease. Oh, I and have to keep the grass trimmed. But I'm going to put my new hive stand on landscape cloth, and cover it with wood chips, so there will be no grass stalks for the ants to climb.

Kamon, in late Feb, my grandson and I built a Layens system hive from 1/2" ply and fiberglass insulation, bottom, top and all four sides in hopes of capturing a swarm or two to fill up the box of 24 frames. I'm going to gather my bait boxes today as they are empty and no need to remain out for hornets to take over. Not a good year for feral swarms this year.

There rocking ✅😁👌🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Your comment on beekeepers in a wheelchair was interesting - I have never seen a video on handicap beekeepers... that might be a good video program!

Beutiful information sir 🙏

Brother, to keep the ants out use some round pipe for the legs of the hive and put PVC cups upside down filled with grease. I have a video showing this my friend. I'm not good at making videos but it will show you what I did and it really works GREAT. :)

I would luv get one of these!!

I have found that if I get stung I want to make sure I scape the stinger off with my knife blade or something quickly and just put water on it and if its not to deep it goes away quickly. Enjoy your videos always.

I love my long hive

IF YOU APPLY SOME TANGLEFOOT TO THE LEGS YOU WON'T HAVE ANY ANTS, DONE THAT FOR YEARS.

i have a trick for you . find yourself 4 coffee cans the old metal ones put one under each leg fill with oil and install a cone on the legs above the can so water cant collect in them . the ants wont cross the oil to climb up the legs of the hive ant problem solved.

spray some white vinegar and salt water on those hive covers to keep the ants off. also put it on the legs of the hive. Someone told me last year that a good use for old motor oil is to bush it on the legs of the beehive and it will keep all insects at bay.

Great hive

Note: If he places each leg into a metal dog bowl and fills the dog bowls with mineral oil or cooking oil and water (never motor oil) it will solve the ant problem. The water in the bowl fills most of the bowl. The oil creates a slick layer on top of the oil. Fill the bowl about 1/2 full. The dog bowl "moats" solved my ant problem.

We started using cinnamon on our inner covers and it’s working really well against the ants

Make a poultice of plantain and stick on bee sting.

Your bees are so well behaved. When I apply smoke to mine, they just keep doing what they were doing...which is mostly getting in my way.

Glad to see that the bee stings hurt you as much as it does us backyard bee keepers.. lol

i think ill progress to a long lang in our urban backyard, and keep traditional langstroth down at the other apiary, yours are looking great

Interesting video. I might have to try a horizontal hive.

If you have your entrance on the end the Queen will tend to stay up that end. You can run a nuc at the other end if you get swarm cells.

All you have to do is add a door to the bottom opposite side of the entrances. Cut out that piece on your next one and hinge it so you can drop it down and add trays and inspect for swarm cells.

Mr. Kamon, place a sardine can under the hive stand legs and pour in a little motor oil and you'll never ever have those ants in your hive again!!

As long as I can hear your wife with a lil giggle ill keep coming back. Thanks for your videos and your help Kamon and Laurel. 7 year keeper from NC.

As for the ants, I found if I sprinkle diatomaceous earth around and under my hive it keeps the ants away. You can buy it at your yard and garden stores.

5:23 Special moment!!! I know exactly how you feel =P

Hey Kamon how's it going glad you and Mrs Laura are fine how's the bee's that had I believe 7 or 8 oxalic treatment going and did they survive the winter thanks Kamon for showing the experiment yard and try a mega hive and see if it's worth doing

Is that lid insulated looks pretty thick...nice hive...good video

I have been dealing with swarms this week. I had to have hernia surgery so I had to let the bees do there own thing. Now I am paying for it. I have to get in them but going to rain again tomorrow. Looks good in there in your neck of the world..

Your long hive it going gangbusters. I do not recall if you loaded it with frames of drawn comb but that would make all the difference in the world. I haven't met a hive type that I dislike and I try to use them all. Your point about good and bad points for all of them is 100% true...they all have advantages and disadvantages. Anyone that tells you a certain hive type is doomed to fail has no idea what they are talking about. It is all about the bees and not the box.

I am not a bee keeper nor do I plan to be , however I’m thinking this style of hive would be good for established bee keepers not so great for bee keepers just starting out because the number of bees the keeper will have when they just start will not fill that hive . Thank you for taking the time to share with us us all here on You Tube your bee keeping experiments .

I built a horizonal hive quite similar to yours. However, I made two (5-inch) mail-slot type entrances even with the bottom board. In doing so, the bees later propolised one of the entrances shut. With such a long hive I'm wondering why the bees did this?

My experience last year with my LLH: queen likes to venture out every so often. I found two frames on separate occasions ⅔ of the way through the honey section. Each frame had about 5 sq in of brood on it. I moved the frames next to the brood section. I've changed my thoughts about the honey section being placed away from the entrance for protection from robbing to the brood section being placed near the entrance because there it's easier for them to control temperature and moisture levels nearer the entrance. Edit: I currently have 2 LLHs. One of them has swarmed itself queen less. Gave it a frame of eggs/larvae. Will have to see how this one does. Swarm season has been horrendous this year in Central New York.

The horizontal box seems to be more insulated then the standard box. We live in the high desert of central Oregon. It can get down to -30 and i was interested in information of using this box in my area.

Very cool hive. Did you ever get time to Finnish the other long hive you filmed? Thanks 👍

NICE!

If you don't like the honey above the broodnest you can open it up with a fork so they could transfer it overnight to the back. I'm working with german Kuntzsch hoch frames which are something like 9inch wide/13inch high layens frames and I do this every spring to concentrate brood/food in separate frames.

👍 moment of silence for your poor thumb! 😂 👍

I saw the queen marked white being shakedown at 9:25 on the fourth frame

Have you used a Layens long box vs a Langstroth long box? Would be an interesting experiment. Layens frames naturally seal at the top between frames, so it elliminates those top covers use use on this box

Sometimes kamon it just hurts like shit 😆

Slice of union remedy's stings

Great video. Can you put queen excluders in horizontal hives?

We are presented with a hive with 30 frames in which the bees step on all 30. Have you strengthened this hive during the development with frames or the population from another hive or the method of the two queens? Very nice video, thank you.

Care to share the dimensions for this hive? Also, can I use heat treated wood to build boxes and frames?

It sounds crazy, but a friend showed me another trick for ants. She sprinkles rubber bands around her counter to drive off ants and it seems to work. You could try sprinkling some rubber bands, or bits of rubber bands around on the top and see if that has any effect.

Try spreading instant grits on top cover for the ants.

I'm just getting started in beekeeping. I have a langstroth vertical beehive I will be setting up next month once my bees arrive. I want to eventually move my bees from the vertical to the horizonal beehive, once I build it. I have to wait for warmer weather first. Will it be ok to shift the frames from the vertical to the horizonal without much disruption? I've also thought about keeping the vertical and slowly start another colony in the horizontal. If I get my new bees in April how long would I need to wait before I could split them to make a new colony for the horizonal hive? Is it a good idea to have a queen excluder to keep her in the brood section or do they stay in place?

Hey Kamon, awesome vid, im thinking of getting a long hive myself. I do have a question. I caught my first swarm last week. They have drawn out empty plastic foundation like crazy. In a weeks time there is 3 frames of eggs/brood and 6 frames of solid honey. Im adding a second deep tomorrow. Should i take all those honey frames and put them in the top deep and replace with undrawn foundation or just simply add the 2nd deep on and be done. Im a first year beekeeper so i dont have any drawn comb at the moment. Thanks

Out of curiosity, can you use an old fridge to store the reclaimed come frames to preserve and prohibit bug intrusion during storage?

Thanks for this video. Can you explain again about how you keep the queen limited to fewer frames? Are you saying the frame of honey was enough of a suggestion that she stayed to the left? Maybe you explained in another video and I missed it. I really appreciate your videos, thanks again.

Curious on how to pull honey when we cant isolate a super using a fume board etc since its horizontal. Will you just bang the bees down and brush the rest off old school?

How do you contain the queen in 9 frames without queen excluder?

I would go for coffee nor cinnamon.

Honey making machine

Thank you for showing video! Good job Ramon! What state are you living? Very green all round nice! I have same hive just 21 frame. I remember my grandfather having many hives in Ukraine. But frame is different sizes like long like same dips. It’s 50 years ago from now. Happy a New season! Thank for much Stay more healthy! I’m from Northwest America !

Try a bay leaf in the hive

Just curious is there a way to put a queen excluder in your long hive? Or do you just depend on a honey wall to stop the queen from moving?

Maybe I missed it, but what does this LLH have for ventilation? Is it a solid bottom? Are there top entrances?

I use ant bait traps

That is an unusual looking hive box, very interesting. Glad you mentioned swarm cells. I was inspecting my hives today and noticed one that had several frames of brood but no larva or fresh eggs anywhere in the hive. The hive has two frames that still need the cells drawn out so I didn’t think over crowding was an issue. The bees also had drawn out 7 active capped queen cells. I looked for the queen but couldn’t find her. I left the queen cells alone because without seeing any fresh eggs I figured the queen died and they were raising a new queen.

Good looking hive, who made it?

Great Video. Question for you Kamon. I'm in the NE--what type of (Langstroth) hive configuration do you recommend for summer and winter? Should I run double deeps all year long?

Do you see an advantage of colony growth and health with a long Lang than with a traditional stacked?