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  • Long Hive - Hyde Hives 2020
  • Long Hive - Hyde Hives 2020
  • Long Hive - Hyde Hives 2020
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Hyde Hives

Long Hive

£580.00 GBP
£580.00 GBP
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Introducing our 40-framed long hive, specially designed to accommodate two separate colonies! Crafted from top-quality English cedar that we grow in Cirencester, this hive is available in three different frame sizes to suit your preferences.

Our long hive is available in the National, 14x12, and Langstroth frame sizes, with the National being the most popular choice among beekeepers. If you're accustomed to working with National hives, you'll find the transition to our long National hive to be seamless. The hive features an extended brood body and standard frames, allowing for easy access to all parts of the hive.

At our workshop, we carefully mill and season the cedar to ensure that it's of the highest quality. You can be confident that your bees will thrive in our long hive, which is not only sturdy and durable, but also beautiful to look at. Order your hive today and give your bees a happy, healthy home!

Included

  • The hive is fully assembled

  • 4 x Perspex crown boards 

  • 2 x Entrance reducers (1 per colony)

  • 1 x Divider Board

 

The dimensions of our hive are as follows:

Width: 600mm (with a base width of 645mm) Length: 1800mm Height: 1000mm (measured from the top of the brood box)

Please be advised that we no longer provide queen excluders or dummy boards with our hives. Through extensive research and customer feedback, we have found that these accessories are not necessary for long hives. In this type of hive, the colony will naturally separate honey stores from the brood without any assistance. Unlike in standard stacked hives, the queen does not move up the hive in search of warmth.

Please note that frames and foundation are not included with the hive, but they can be purchased pre-assembled from our friends over at hobee they are of great quality and work perfectly with our hives.

Customer Reviews

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Steve Hyde
Highly recommended

Lovely looking hive and the workmanship is excellent. Dean delivered my hive and helped me set it up, answering all the questions I had about using it.
I am assured that the guys at Hyde hives are there to help in the unlikely event if a problem. Highly recommended.

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Pierre Germishuizen
Disappointing spruce

I had my hive delivered this weekend. The hive itself is lovely. The quality of the build is great. However, the hive has an unfortunate spruce detail on either end, supporting the roof struts. When the roof is shut you can see a line of white wood between the lovely warm red cedar on either end, and when the roof is open it really is obvious.More noticeable, though, is the spruce stand. I do see that the diagram on the website stating that the stand was cedar has now been removed. At least no-one else will be as disappointed as I was.
However, the hive itself is great. I will just have to build a cedar stand to match in order to get the look that I was looking forward to .
If everything was cedar I would happily have given six stars.

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Adam
Lovely, well made and well thought out hive

A really lovely, solid hive that it is well made and so easy to use. I love the lid with struts, the clear viewing of the frames. In fact the whole set up. All along I was kept informed and they were very helpful. Delivery was essential - unless you have a BIG van. I had not appreciated how big the whole thing would be . It gets lots of admiring looks!

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Catriona Gray

All my questions about the hive were helpfully answered with great expertise and clear enthusiasm for beekeeping which made me confident about buying the hive. The ordering was easy and I was kept up to date about the delivery. The hive looks beautiful and easy to use.

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Colin Suckling

excellent product well made.
Are the queen excludes and follower boards included as portrayed in the video.

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