Shallow Super to suite Rational or
Top Bee Space National Hives

"A-Z" INDEX

It is called a super because it usually goes over the top of most other parts of a hive. American useage of the word can be misleading as 'super' is a name that is often appended to any sort of box that contains frames.

It is also known just as a "shallow" or a "shallow box". And is the item that a beekeeper will have the most of, simply because the bees will fill several of them whilst they are on the hives and you will have others that are awaiting extraction, some being extracted and yet others waiting to be returned to hives.

An empty super can be used for many of the uses of an eke.

They can also be filled with hanging section frames instead of extracting frames.

Supers are basically a shorter version of a brood box.

Cutting of parts (all dimensions are in mm). (When drawings of parts are available, the table rows will become live links.) The Grain should run along the longest dimension of any part.

Qty Length Width Thickness Material Useage

2 460 150 18 Pine Sides

2 460 44 25 Pine Front and back top rails (rebated)

2 460 44 25 Pine Bottom rails (splayed)

2 424 126 18 Pine Front and back panels

Note The front and back are set flush with the baseline and the ledge of the rebate.

This cross sectional view may help to make assembly easy.

Scale = 1 pixel per 2mm

Written... 06 February 2002

Qty	Length	Width	Thickness	Material	Useage
2	460	150	18	Pine	Sides
2	460	44	25	Pine	Front and back top rails (rebated)
2	460	44	25	Pine	Bottom rails (splayed)
2	424	126	18	Pine	Front and back panels

Shallow Super to suite Rational orTop Bee Space National Hives

Shallow Super to suite Rational or
Top Bee Space National Hives