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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.
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.
United StatesI have said to others this is a game changer in lifting and managing vertical Langstroth hives when one can no longer manage the weight of the boxes. It does take some practice. It makes using the Demaree method of swarm management MUCH easier as well as general inspections. However, when converting hives back to standard box configurations (e.g. simply removing a queen excluder), or changing box configurations it requires movement of load screws or inserting multiple screws in different locations. For that reason, it is good that you sell additional load screws. Even with that, this is a super invention. Many thanks for the effort and time taken to design a well thought out and soundly constructed device.
United StatesIt makes it possible for us older hobbyists to enjoy working with bees and that is what it is all about.. Marty in MT
United StatesI Love this product. In Montana, our season is late. Got the bee’s on May second . Did my first inspection on the 16th. It worked like the dream it is. Thanks you Flow Hive. Dan
United StatesSet up was easy and we installed the bees last week. This hive looks fantastic and the customer service is amazing. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
