Auto Beehive,Wooden Beekeeping House Beehive Boxes with 7 PCS Auto Flow Hive Frames,Bee Hives Boxes Starter Kit,Food Grade BPA Free (7 PCS Beehive Frame+Wooden Box)

I suggest watching video on assembly. It comes coated in wax, get my bees next weekend so we’ll see how it goes. Seller was very commutative. Recommend

I have bought two of these because I really like using the flow frames. They are easy to harvest (though in the house -- not out by the bees!), and I like that they give the bees a jump start on building comb. All the bees have to do is close the cracks and cap them -- I think it saves a lot of wax making. Now here are the cons: First, you aren't really going to harvest this outside while your bees fly around blissfully unaware. As soon as you open the panel to access the top of the flow frames bees are going to start coming out of there and they will not be happy to see you. Bees will also crowd around your honey that is coming out the tubes. Bees smell honey! So forget that -- take the flow frames inside and harvest them there. It would be nice if the company would make a stand to make that easier because those flow frames are really hard to stand up while you're trying to crank down the key that opens the frames. Second, do NOT forget to use your queen excluder, or you will get larva in your flow frames and let me tell you what a disgusting mess that will be when you use the key to open the flow frames. You will have crushed larva in your honey. Yum. Third, that peaked roof with the holes in it is a perfect bee hideaway. Mine made comb in there and then defended it so that I couldn't open the hive at all without all chaos breaking loose (because you're not going to get that roof off without breaking comb if they have moved in there). So very first thing you should do is cover those holes with screen. I ended up just switching to a regular telescoping roof. A few more notes -- those flow frames won't fit in your Langstroth boxes because they need a rabet ledge that is over an inch deep. I do like that the floor is one smooth surface rather than the balancing act of putting a Langstroth on the raised ledges of the bottom boards that come with Langstroth hives. I also like the windows because I ended up converting all my hives to horizontal hives (I just toggled them together) and the windows in the flow boxes made it really easy because I just took out the plexiglass and stapled a queen excluder over it. Happy bee keeping!

Pieces of wood came with cracks. Directions to small of a print. The predrilled holes for the roof not properly lined up and causing me to drill into knots. Dove tail joints poor craftsmanship, poor fit. I expected better quality for the price.

They say you might need some force to get it to assemble...or some sand paper..what...your pieces are more then a quarter of an inch....come pick it up it's not as described its junk....perforated edges and your telling me to sand them....no junk

This is a cheap copy of the Flow Hive invented by a father/son team out of Australia. Go with the original!

The assembly directions are surprisingly good. Love to have used glue on all the joints but all the wood was wax coated- so it would only act as a filler and not adhere. I predrilled a number of holes and added quite a number of screws. The fit on joinery it tight- a pen knife was useful to camphor edges before pounding together using a wide board and rubber mallet to drive into place equally. Very complete.