how to make hanging feeders
08-13-2010, 05:51 AM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 18
how to make hanging feeders
im sure someone has posted this before but i have bought some multrie kit feeders and have aquired some used chemical buckets from swimming pool co. and want to make some good feeders that im not always messing with? anyone hav any ideas or instructions?
08-14-2010, 07:48 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central PA
Posts: 829
I had used plastic barrels in the past- never again, the squirrels chewed through the top and bottom. What feed hadn't spilled out was ruined with mold by rain water running in the top.
I suggest a smaller metal drum (like a 30 gal roughly) and then I drill a hole at 6 and 12 on the barrel about 10" down from the top. Then run a plastic coated metal cable though each hole securing the ends with bolt type cable clamps on the inside. Wrap another section of cable around that cable and secure that with a clamp allowing enough room for the first cable to slide freely through the loopn so you can level it. Get a BIG pulley to A. Make sure it doesn't break due to the weight and B. makes it easier to hoist the 30 gal drum up in the air. I usually take a come-along with to ratchet my drum up and then secure it to a tree screw with a loop I tie into the end of the cable. A corn filled 50 gal drum would take a truck to hoist in the air that is why I recommend a 30 gallon approx size.
I suggest a smaller metal drum (like a 30 gal roughly) and then I drill a hole at 6 and 12 on the barrel about 10" down from the top. Then run a plastic coated metal cable though each hole securing the ends with bolt type cable clamps on the inside. Wrap another section of cable around that cable and secure that with a clamp allowing enough room for the first cable to slide freely through the loopn so you can level it. Get a BIG pulley to A. Make sure it doesn't break due to the weight and B. makes it easier to hoist the 30 gal drum up in the air. I usually take a come-along with to ratchet my drum up and then secure it to a tree screw with a loop I tie into the end of the cable. A corn filled 50 gal drum would take a truck to hoist in the air that is why I recommend a 30 gallon approx size.
