The Dadant Hives are used in france... they are certainly popular... I work
with them for years, and never had a problem. They didn't get discontinued.
There seems to be confusion in the states has DADANT is a STANDARD
dimension for hives, but there is a company in the states that is called
Dadant and that produice hives.
Mr Dadant lived on the same time as Mr Langstroth, both had the same
problem, and both arrived to the same conclusion : If you make it properly,
you can have a mobile frames hive... (see also Mr Voirnot (France) and
others(germany))
There are no Jumbo Dadant Hives ...
Brother Adam travelled through europe, had seem the hives in France, and
started to use them (1924)...
Poeples in UK didn't beleive such big hive could be of any use... read his
books. See also http://www.fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/homage/ven.html
In 5 years, he converted ALL his langstroth hives into Dadant, because he
add BETTER results.
To compare DADANT and LANGSTROTH
Dadant brood frame: 44.5 * 28.5 cm= 12.68 dm2
Dadant supper frame: 44.5 - 14 cm = 6.23 dm2
Langsthroth frames : 42 * 20 cm = 8.40 dm2
A normal dadant hive will have one brood box and two suppers, depending 10
or 12 frame. Mine are 12 frames...
sizes are in square dm (inside, wood not included in surface mesures)
frameDadant 10 dadant 12framelangstroth
brood12,7126,8152,28,484,0
supper6,262,374,88,484,0
supper6,262,374,88,484,0
total251,4301,7252,0
Bernard.
>At 12:00 AM 4/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>I've only kept bees for five years so don't know anything about
>>Jumbo Dadant Hives. Reading about them they seem like they would be easier
>>to work and most beekeepers would only need one box for a brood chamber.
>>Brother Adam used these at Buckfast Abbey.
>> Why did they get discontinued?
Since no one responded to your question, I will. The frames were too big. A
regular sized frame can hold 5 or 6 pounds of honey and if it is not well
built, it will break. The bottom bar may pull off or the ears of the frames
may snap. This is especially a problem if the frames are old. I have no
idea how working the jumbo hives would be, but I imagine the frames would
be very awkward to remove.
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