Well, I'm just a week away from closing on my new property and was going to put out a couple feeders the second I close on it.

There are cattle grazing on the property now, but I have a couple spots were I can fence the feeders off so the cattle can't get to the feeder but wildlife will be able to. In those areas there really aren't any good trees to hang the feeders from but I don't really want to spend $400 on a fancy tripod feeder either. Right now my primary goal is to get an idea of what is out there on the property so I don't really care if the feeder is timed or not. I may end up going to a timed feeder that only goes off during the day at some point in the future though.

I was looking around and saw these gravity feeders on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fill-It-Forget-It-Deer-Feeder-350-lb-60-gal-cap_W0QQitemZ130080351993QQihZ003QQcategoryZ52504Q QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It looks decent and easy and not too expensive.

I'm 100 miles from the property so I can't really go out and manually dump corn out each week or anything so something that lasts a while sounds good.

Anyone have any thoughts or used a feeder like this?

How well do the $100 timer feeders work like this work?

http://www.academy.com/index.php?page=content&target=products/outdoors/hunting/feeders&start=0&selectedSKU=0338-00199-0270

Thanks, Nathan