Size advise needed; deep vs medium

[ronwhite3030]

The Killion method for Comb honey production uses splitting by the box with deeps, I think he is a bit and by a bit I mean alot older then MB. I think his father also used it before him.

[FRAMEshift]

The Killion method for Comb honey production uses splitting by the box with deeps, I think he is a bit and by a bit I mean alot older then MB. I think his father also used it before him.

Do you have a link to something describing how he splits by the box.  You mean that he distributes boxes randomly without regard to the contents?

[Michael Bush]

My point on boxes that are half the size, is that the resources are fairly evenly distributed with no effort beyond the sequence of doing every other box.  This is not true when you have deeps.

[FRAMEshift]

Michael, you mentioned that you need 4 eight frame mediums going into buildup to have a reliable "split by box".  Do you mean that you need a minimum of 4 boxes full of bees in order to split that into two hives of two boxes each?   Just how high can you stack those 8 frame mediums before they fall over?  

[Michael Bush]

>Do you mean that you need a minimum of 4 boxes full of bees in order to split that into two hives of two boxes each?

That is best both for distributing and for "critical mass".

>   Just how high can you stack those 8 frame mediums before they fall over?

I have them all up against each other and sometimes they are higher than I can reach, but that's also why none of my stands are taller than 3 1/2".