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Bench Hive

Product Code: SHK025
$343.85
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Bench Hive

Bench Hive

$343.85
$343.85
$257.89 (Inc. GST)
Sale 25%
$299.00
$299.00
$224.25 (Ex. GST)
Sale 25%
(You save $85.96 )

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Ceracells New 22 Frame Bench Hive

Are you a hobby beekeeper ready to improve the way your home apiary works? Are you tired of bending over and having to lift and move heavy bee boxes?  Do you want flexibility in managing and working frames to keep your hives healthy?

Then the Ceracell Bench Hive is ideal for you!  It is fixed to a purpose built stand to hold the hive at waist height. It is the equivalent of two standard bee boxes wide and has the advantage of multiple entrances that can each be securely closed off. So you can run the one “hive” as a super-colony or divide up the interior to run up to four colonies in the one piece of wood-ware. It will take two honey supers sitting side-by-side on top so it works easily with existing wood-ware.

This is a beautiful set up that our in-house beekeeper has trialed for a number of years to get it just right. It will make your beekeeping more fun and productive.

Bees just love Bench hives, we have trialed 15 bench hives and found the bees do really well, not only over wintering but building up and maintaining a strong population in the summer and winter months. We have put in four entrance discs to allow your hive to increase its bee flow when the hives population demands or reduce the hives entrances when the hives population is contracting. At the height of summer we call it running on all four cylinders as the entrances are fully open and the hive is in top gear pulling in loads of pollen and nectar. When the hive is really going well you can add two honey supers above, simply add two standard 10 frame excluders and you are good to go.

Included in product

1 x Bench Hive Galv lid 0.55 gauge sprung

1 x Kitset bench hive floor with Legs

1 x Kitset bench hive super

4 x Entrance discs with screws.

Please note, the hive comes in kit-set form, we have an instructional video on how to assemble the Bench Hive below. The Bench hive does not include wood screws, you will need to purchase those at your local home hardware store.

Does not come with kit

- Wood Screws

- Electric Drill

- Hive Mat's

We highly recommend painting with at least two coats of water based paint, the wood is untreated and if left so will rot away. Wood screws we used in the installation video are 8 gauge x 50mm and 8 gauge x 30mm, you will need to buy from your local hardware store, not included in product set.

 

 

Customer Reviews

3 Review
  • Back Saver 5

    Posted by ingrid on 4th Feb 2025

    This hive is exactly what I needed being elderly and female, lifting bee boxes is getting a bit hard and I want to enjoy bee keeping a long time. I like this design as it has slats at the base of the box for air, it has a removable lid which is great because I can add some honey supers on top. I also like the sturdy legs so it won't be tipped over.would be nice if it came with a selperator, but I managed to find a plastic one The only problem I had was that pieces of the hive were missing and I had to get the rest sent later. Then I ordered another hive the same and that arrived in three instalments after contacting Ceracell. But they sent the pieces very quickly so I am a happy customer, and would buy again.

  • Beast hive 5

    Posted by Daniel Miller on 19th Dec 2023

    The bees are really loving the bench hive, easy to work without the lifting and at a good height. I definitely rate the bench hive very highly. Absolutely impressive

  • Bench hive. 5

    Posted by Catherine Lawrence on 24th May 2023

    Cant wait to put it together,the kitset video is easy to follow.Bending and lifting heavy brood boxes is becoming an issue for me plus I like the idea that brood will all be on one level for applying varroa treatments etc,and doing hive inspections.

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