Large hive tool for beekeeping with exceptional dimensions, L-shaped design, and central hole for nail pulling.
Thirty centimetres of leverage will lift a stuck super. They will also snap a top bar, if you lever where you shouldn't.
American-pattern hive tool, 300 mm long and 2.5 mm thick. A bevelled edge at one end and a hooked end at the other: the big version of the usual tool, with more arm and more steel.
01 · THE TWO ENDS
The bevelled edge scrapes propolis and wax off top bars, crown boards and floors. The hooked end, bent to 90°, levers stuck supers apart and frees frames from the rebate.
Beside the hook there is a keyhole-shaped slot: a nail puller, which saves fetching the pincers.
02 · THE LEVER ARM
At 30 cm the force multiplies far more than with a short hive tool, and hence the one rule that matters: lever against the rim of the box, never against the top bar. With this much steel, the pine gives first.
On a badly glued frame, cut the propolis down both sides first and lift afterwards.
03 · WHEN IT PAYS
The 30 cm are awkward in a pocket and you feel them in your hand by the end of the day. In exchange, they are what gets out a super that has not been opened in two seasons.
04 · BEFORE YOU BUY
It is a tool for force, not for finesse:
| ✓ FITS | Stuck supers, old woodware and taking boxes apart. |
| ✕ DOESN'T FIT | Carrying it in a trouser pocket: 30 cm will not go in. |
| Type | American-pattern hive tool |
|---|---|
| Length | 300 mm |
| Thickness | 2.5 mm |
| Scraping end | Bevelled edge |
| Levering end | Hook bent to 90° |
| Nail puller | Keyhole slot beside the hook |
| Reference | T01-C |

Large hive tool for beekeeping with exceptional dimensions, L-shaped design, and central hole for nail pulling.
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