Ahlert,

Would you know if there are photos of this design on the web ?  This system
makes a lot of sense.  My only question is: since there are no honey supers
in this setup, how do you remove the frames for extracting honey ?  In the
US, it's common to replace the top cover doused with a bee-repelling
substance (bee-go) in order to clear all the bees from the topmost super
within 3 - 5 minutes.  Do you smoke the bees out of the honey frames and
then remove the frames from the hive into a separate box ?

Best regards,

Waldemar

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...I am using have 17 combs side by side as the brood chamber.
The brood chamber is separated from the honey room by a vertical queen
excluder taking another 17 frames. Thus I do have 34 frames in my hive
wich I can inspect without moving any supers. In that way bee I have no
problems at all lifting heavy weights.

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