Dadant Blatt Nuc HDF

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Dadant Blatt Nuc HDF

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13 .95 € - 20 .95 € 15 .75 €

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Five-frame nuc in water-resistant HDF, Dadant Blatt French size: 47 cm top bar. The 48 cm Dadant US frame will not go in. Arrives assembled, with a metal-doored entrance, floor ventilation and a feed hatch. It is a season box for moving and selling swarms, not for overwintering in the cold. Four versions.

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With fasteners

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With castellated spacers
Without castellated spacers

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Details of Dadant Blatt Nuc HDF

47 cm

FRAME TOP BAR

FRAMES

9.8 kg

EMPTY WEIGHT

CONFIGURATIONS

Five-frame nuc in water-resistant HDF board, in the Dadant Blatt size: the French one, 47 cm top bar. It arrives assembled and needs no painting.

This is a box built for moving and selling swarms, not for overwintering: it comes cheap, it lasts season after season, and it lets you hand over the swarm with the nuc included without the price jumping. First, though, the size — that is where most people get caught.

01 · 47 OR 48 CM?

One centimetre decides whether your frames fit

Dadant Blatt and Dadant US are the same box with a different top bar. The gap is one centimetre and there is no margin in it: measure the top bar of your frames before ordering.

Dadant Blatt (this one)	Frame of 47 × 30 cm. The standard in France and Italy.
Dadant US	Frame of 48 × 30 cm. The usual size in Spain, and it will not go in here: it has its own nuc.

02 · WHAT IT IS FOR

A season box, not a hive to winter in

Worth saying plainly, because it is where nearly all the disappointment comes from: the HDF is thin and insulates little. For what it is built for — taking a swarm, moving a split, handing over a nuc you have sold, keeping spare boxes in the van — it does the job well, at a price where making your own is not worth the trouble. For getting through a cold winter inside, no: there you want timber or thick polystyrene. If the plan is to raise colonies in it and leave them there all year, this is not the nuc.

03 · THE FOUR VERSIONS

What changes between them

It comes in four combinations. They are worth a look before choosing on price, because one of them settles a common complaint.

With or without frames	If you already have Blatt frames made up, the version without works out cheaper. If you are selling the whole swarm, the one that includes them saves you the assembly.
With or without spacer	The frame spacer is what holds the frames at a set distance and stops them shifting in transit. Without it the frame runs free — which is exactly what gets missed by anyone taking the cheapest version without knowing what they are leaving out.

04 · HOW IT ARRIVES

Assembled, with a metal entrance and a feed hatch

It ships already assembled, with a metal-doored entrance on the side, ventilation in the floor and easy-open catches on the roof. The crown board carries a feed hatch and takes a frame feeder or a 1 kg round one. The water-resistant HDF needs no paint. One word on the finish, better said up front: where the staples go in, the laminate can chip a little. It comes with the material and the assembly — it shows, but it does not affect the structure.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

✓ FITS	Collecting swarms, moving splits and handing over nucs you have sold, on 47 cm Dadant Blatt frames.
✕ DOESN'T FIT	Overwintering in a cold area, and any 48 cm Dadant US frame.
⚠ NOT INCLUDED	The feeder. Nor the frames or the spacer if you pick the versions that go without.

SPECIFICATIONS

Part	Five-frame nuc, Dadant Blatt (French) size
Material	Laminated water-resistant HDF board · unpainted
Frame it takes	Dadant Blatt 47 × 30 cm · does not take Dadant US at 48 cm
External dimensions	52 × 40 × 22 cm
Empty weight	9.8 kg
Fitted with	Metal-doored entrance · floor ventilation · easy-open catches · feed hatch in the crown board
Supplied	Assembled · with or without frames, with or without frame spacer