Blog post - Hive body repair with the bees still inside. Exciting.

[Rurification]

We have a horizontal hive body that needed some tweaking because the bees didn't want to use all of it.  This is how we did it.

http://rurification.blogspot.com/2012/07/hive-repair-tardis.html

Here's one of the pics. 

[Sour Kraut]

Why is the 'bottom support' necessary ?   The frames look to be normal sized, just more of them than a 'regular' hive

There is no need for support at the bottom in a 10-frame width, why in a 'x' frame wide hive ?