mark berninghausen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Didn't Dadant have a frame and coresponding super in which the frame was almost square and therefore gave the queen a vast area to lay in? Seems I remember discussions about a hive like that, square frames.  It had frames as long as the current ones but were as deep as they were wide.  The thought that immediately came to mind was, "How would you like to lift that sucker when it was full of honey?".  It would be as much heavier than the current standard brood chamber as the Illinois super is to the shallow super.  I, for one, would NOT want to lift that thing.  Those hives were in use for a while but as far as I can tell never came into standard use.

Mike   Located in lower Alabama  (LA)

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