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Lew Hodgett[_5_] Lew Hodgett[_5_] is offline
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Default angled finger joint? for beehive

Somebody wrote:


One question: why, exactly, do the boxes have to have angled sides
like that? Is it a functional part of the design, or just an
esthetic one?


I suspect for ventilation.

All those bees in the hive generate a lot of heat.

Lew