sewer pipe feeder

[bigtim6656]

i have seen where alot of you took schedule 40 or sewer pipe and made a gravity feeder out of it

anyone got a list of what i need and how i do it an dhow much it will hold

[kill_it_n_grill_it]

Are you talking plastic, or cast iron?

[Sooner State Hunter]

yep, used them alot. 6" PVC about 5' long (has to be short enough so you can pour feed out of a bucket)with a 6" Y fitting glued onto the bottom, get a cap for the top, wire it to a tree and your ready to go, will hold 50 lbs of corn or close to it.

[bigtim6656]

schedule 40 is a plastic type like pvc i think

sooner state hunter fo i just the y on the end and how far do i keep it from the ground and what keep it from just running out

[hatchet jack]

S-40 is steel Pipe

hatchet jack

[vikesfan353]

Just FYI
S40 is steel or PVC! The schedule is the thickness of the pipe! It can go from 10-160! The schedule number indicates a pressure value! Approximately 1000 times the pressure-stress ratio!

[bigtim6656]

i see i wentand bought some for my house i am remodeling and it was pvc

i thought the sed40 was for sewer only and differnt then reguler pvc i had to buy it because the house was built with steel in the 20s but someone redid some of it with pvc the pvc steel meeting spot was leaking and i thoug about the feeder

ORIGINAL: vikesfan353

Just FYI
S40 is steel or PVC! The schedule is the thickness of the pipe! It can go from 10-160! The schedule number indicates a pressure value! Approximately 1000 times the pressure-stress ratio!

[KoBear]

you can use any size PVC for a feeder. i like 4" if you can refill it often. just bolt it to a tree about 2-4 inches off the ground and pour the corn in. its as easy as that!

[Sooner State Hunter]

ORIGINAL: bigtim6656

schedule 40 is a plastic type like pvc i think

sooner state hunter fo i just the y on the end and how far do i keep it from the ground and what keep it from just running out

definately use pvc not cast iron, man that would be heavy.

Lay a 5' piece on the ground, on one endslip a cap, don't glue (that will be your top end).On the otherglue a Y fitting (that's your bottom) with the Y pointing upwards (this is what they eat out of) and you can alsoglue a cap on the bottom of the Y. I didn't hang mine, just stood it up with the bottom end on the ground and used bailing wire to tie it a tree. It'll take a couple of weeks some times for them to get used to eating out of it, but once they do then they're hooked.

Having said all that, I've changed to the hanging bucket feeders since they have timers that control when and how much corn is dispensed, but the PVC is a cheap way to get started.