> waldig <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 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 ? I have two Langstroth hives and two TBH's, I love the Langstroths for their "standard"ness... but the TBH's are my favorite because they are so easy to work. When I harvest my frames from the TBH, I use it mostly as comb honey because it isn't conducive to being spin extracted. One option however is to build a press and basically mash the comb, extracting the honey that way and ending up with fairly clean wax as the press is pretty good at getting most of the honey out. Then I rinse my wax cakes in fairly warm water and use the resulting honey water (plus some extracted honey) for a must to make mead out of. The wax is used by myself and my friends in our re-enactment group (we reenact the middle ages as a hobby) and the honey is also used primarily amoungst myself and my friends. (Sadly, I can no longer eat honey like I once did... being diabetic sucks) Check out http://www.gsu.edu/~biojdsx/main.htm for lots of fine info on TBH's. Mike -- Rev. Mike Martin Lord Hrothgar the Smith http://members.home.net/mmartin139/ scribere jussit amor