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Inspecting your hive has never been easier with the Flow Super Lifter®.
Lifting honey supers to inspect the brood box can be a real chore – first you have to chisel the boxes apart, then lift the heavy super off and find somewhere to put it down. And when you replace the super afterwards, bees often get squashed.
We’ve invented the Flow Super Lifter so that you can open a beehive without strain. It attaches and detaches easily to Flow Hives and conventional hives, it cracks the propolis seal for you, and we’ve designed it to lift as many as two deep boxes at a time. When you’re ready to close the hive again, the Super Lifter lets you align and replace the boxes gently to avoid the bees getting squashed.
You don’t need a Flow Super Lifter to keep bees! However, if you’d like to avoid heavy lifting, this invention is a great option. When they’re full of honey, supers can weigh upwards of 23kg/50lbs.
Inspecting the brood box regularly is a necessary (and fascinating!) part of beekeeping – using the Super Lifter makes it a lot easier and faster.
The Flow Super Lifter requires minimal maintenance. Simply clean it after use with a damp cloth and store it – we recommend using the custom made Flow Super Lifter bag.
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Standard Kit: Sold OutCedar Anderson and his dad Stuart revolutionized beekeeping in 2015 when they launched an invention that makes honey harvesting easier, gentler and quicker than ever before.
Now, based on feedback from their community of over 140,000 Flow Hive beekeepers in 130 countries, they’ve done the same for routine hive inspections.
The Flow Super Lifter® is another innovation for ease, saving time, promoting the bees’ well-being, and making beekeeping more accessible.
Taking care of bees involves regularly opening the hive to check on them.
This means you had to:
“Lifting, to me, is the biggest problem in beekeeping” - Michael Bush
Cedar Anderson and his dad Stuart revolutionized beekeeping in 2015 when they launched an invention that makes honey harvesting easier, gentler and quicker than ever before.
Now, based on feedback from their community of 140,000 Flow Hive beekeepers in 130 countries, they’ve done the same for routine hive inspections.
The Super Lifter is another innovation for ease, saving time, promoting the bees’ well-being, and making beekeeping more accessible.
Screws
Flow Load Point Screws
Are essential for safely attaching your Super Lifter. Install these on the lower and upper boxes of your hive to use the Super Lifter. If you’ve got multiple hives we recommend getting extra screws so that they can be installed permanently on each hive.
All of our Super Lifter kits come with 8 Load Point Screws, and they can also be purchased separately.
8x for $9, or 24x for $27
How many do I need?Screws
Flow Load Point Screws
Are essential for safely attaching your Super Lifter. Install these on the lower and upper boxes of your hive to use the Super Lifter. If you’ve got multiple hives we recommend getting extra screws so that they can be installed permanently on each hive.
All of our Super Lifter kits come with 8 Load Point Screws, and they can also be purchased separately.
8x for $9, or 24x for $27
How many do I need?Handles
Flow Super Lifter Handles
These specially designed handles make lifting more ergonomic and even easier. Useful if you want to further reduce the weight, and strongly recommended for double box lifts.
The handles attach to the hive using Load Point Screws – install 2 screws on each box that you want to lift using handles.
A pair of Flow Super Lifter Handles are included in the Super Lifter Extension Kit and Super Lifter Deluxe Kit, and they can also be purchased separately.
2x for $79
Handles
Flow Super Lifter Handles
These specially designed handles make lifting more ergonomic and even easier. Useful if you want to further reduce the weight, and strongly recommended for double box lifts.
The handles attach to the hive using Load Point Screws – install 2 screws on each box that you want to lift using handles.
A pair of Flow Super Lifter Handles are included in the Super Lifter Extension Kit and Super Lifter Deluxe Kit, and they can also be purchased separately.
2x for $79
Latches
Flow Brass Hive Latches
Perfect for keeping double boxes securely together when lifting or for attaching your brood box to the hive base.
A pair of latches are included in the Super Lifter Extension Kit and Super Lifter Deluxe Kit, and they can also be purchased separately.
2x for $30, or 6x for $90
How many do I need?Latches
Flow Brass Hive Latches
Perfect for keeping double boxes securely together when lifting or for attaching your brood box to the hive base.
A pair of latches are included in the Super Lifter Extension Kit and Super Lifter Deluxe Kit, and they can also be purchased separately.
2x for $30, or 6x for $90
How many do I need?Bag
Flow Super Lifter Carry Bag
Make storing and transporting your Super Lifter and handles a breeze using this durable carry bag. Custom-designed for comfort and ease of use.
Included in the Super Lifter Deluxe Kit, and can also be purchased separately.
$100
Bag
Flow Super Lifter Carry Bag
Make storing and transporting your Super Lifter and handles a breeze using this durable carry bag. Custom-designed for comfort and ease of use.
Included in the Super Lifter Deluxe Kit, and can also be purchased separately.
$100
Simply add our Load Point Screws to your hives and you’re ready to go.
It does all the work of chiselling the boxes apart for you.
Works with Flow Hives and conventional hives. Can lift up to two deep boxes at a time.
Built to last using hard-wearing extruded aluminium and stainless steel.
It’s light, compact and backpackable.
Carefully developed, tested and refined to produce an optimal design.
United StatesSmooth and pretty easy, the hive lifter helps out in the yard! I have difficulty getting into lower boxes as I can no longer lift heavy supers without unloading frames first. This allows me to do more intensive inspections that let me know the health of my hives. Flowhive has done it again - this quality lifter changes the game for the better!
United StatesThe Flow Super Lifter is just that, A Super Lifting game changer for those of us struggling to lift heavy brood boxes and honey supers. We are younger and older, and hefting the heavy boxes and setting them aside only to heft them back into place has been the hardest part of bee keeping. Now with the Flow Super Lifter, we can do weekly inspections during this swarm season without our boxes being lifted with our hands. This Lifter does it for us fast and simply. Boxes stay within inches of the hive. We can inspect fast and simple. This is a pleasant addition and the best money spent on our hobby to date. Thank you .
United States United StatesWhat a great design. It makes inspection so much easier. I wish the bag came automatically when the larger kit was purchased but so be it I’ll do without.
AustraliaThe lifter plus handles has been fantastic for me. It makes hive inspections so easy for me to do on my own. Can I suggest that the instructions manual points out that if you have a ‘hive beetle oil catcher’ you must put it in the bottom box. Mine was in the middle box so when I tilted the middle & top box, the oil emptied into the hive & suffocated some bees.
