Message to David Strout from Mike Purcell UK. Your analysis into understanding bee behavior that culminated into the now famous "sliding dovetail deep Langstroth frame" is quite honestly inspired and a genus innovative design. In your 1st video you came up with the idea of having a sliding dovetail for the top bar, this too was a brilliant idea because it allowed frames to be interchangeable. The 1st instinct of bees is to always draw comb starting from the top, with your design the bee keeper can do the old "switch a rooney", switch the top to the bottom and bottom to the top which gets bees drawing out comb in record time. Good luck with your endeavors and keep the broadcasting going....Cheers
I have watched a few videos and have some feedback. 1) I like v 1.0 for the frames because of the reversibility. 2) I like v 2.0 frames because of the support stubs similar to standard langstrath. 3) bees arrange the hive with the brood closest to the entrance and the honey behind it. I don’t know how I feel about the honey wings. Because of the design there will never truly be a honey barrier to prevent the brood nest from expanding into the honey stores. Meaning: queen excluders are made more necessary. That is fine… except the wings and lifespan of workers is cut unnecessary short plus the time to work and time acceptance of frames beyond them is increased. The solution is to make the entrance on one side and expand to the other side as necessary. It will eliminate the need for the queen excluder. It will also mean only one follower board is necessary. 4 ) I wonder if the joints in the frames can hold the wait of a frame completely 100% honey. It is often necessary to hold the frames at a 90* angle to the ground. It would be at that angle it would have the highest stresses. 5) ideas for frame v 3.0: use the triangle attachment for less unused bridging. Provide stubs on both top and bottom frames pointing to joining frames like this . Make them reversible if two joints can support full frames of honey when held at a 90* to the ground. If not then… idk 🤷♂️ 6) look up Fredric Dunn to learn at hyper speed about beekeeping, he might be the 1-3 top beekeeper in the us on videos. When you are ready to bring it to market send him one for free. He will give so much feedback it will make your brain hurt. Good job so far! I like where it’s going! I look forward to testing future designs!
