Another applicant for big feeder club

[bcdawg1]

Here are a couple pics of a big feeder I built last year. Built it on skids, leveraging the outback feeders design. Skid is 2"x4" tubing. Legs are 2" pipe. Barrel is 40" inside diameter by 2' tall, was a 4' piece of ductwork from the local cotton gin revamp, cut it in half, built two identical feeders. Lid was fabbed at a sheetmetal shop in Fredericksburg. Spinner is sandwiched between two 24" diameter plates, keeps the deer, coons, cows, etc from getting to the spinner. Motor, battery and timer are housed in the ammo can hanging under the plates. Doubles as demand protien feeder as I also built 4 port drop tube unit out of 4" square tubing that bolts to the bottom of feeder in place of the spinner & plates combo.

bcdawg1

[Chris]

I want one! How many pounds of feed does it hold?

[tx10pt]

How much corn? I like the 2 24" plates

[Texastaxi]

Dang, Bruce ... all this time I thought you didn't have no mechanical abilities!

That think looks like it was ran through some serious engineering before construction!

[nsbowhunter]

Looks good but are you not worried that corn will pill up on the big plates?

[nsbowhunter]

After looking it over , a great alternative to your next project but should meet the same results might be two disk plows placed so that excess corn could run down.

[bcdawg1]

Will hold 1100 pounds of corn or 1000 pounds of protien pellets. Is short enough that I can fill it out of the back of the truck and don't have to mess with a ladder. Also is heavy enough to not require any tiedown/anchoring and moving it is easy as I can push/lift it up on a trailer or just tie it to the four wheeler and drag it for short distances. The hogs at my lease are notorious for uprooting feeder legs and turning them over but I didn't see any sign that they had even moved this design.

Have used the parallel plate design on a couple other feeders I have built and have never had a buildup on the plate. I use an agressive channel shaped spinner plate and Dayton feeder motors and very little ends up on the plate at spindown and what is left is always pushed off at the next feeding, there may be a few kernels on the plate but no buildup.

Using old disks would be good too as I believe the curvature would help keep the plate clean.

A word of caution with the plates. You have to keep the spinner either low or high enough (relative to the plate below) so that a kernel of corn can't wedge in between the spinner and plate. Also need to keep the plates only a couple inches apart as any more and the squirrels will crawl in and rake corn off of the spinner.

[nsbowhunter]

I'm use to corn pilling up even with a regular spinner. Makes sence to have something throw even harder

[Outcast]

I wanna join the big feeder club! Here's our "double barrell" feeder. 4 barrells, 2 ea welded together. They slide down in a sleeve we made. We have protein attachments and slinger attachments. It's on skids with a ladder on one side. There is a lower and upper catwalk to fill from. We used up most of our scrap pieces to weld this contraption together with the exception of the 3" pipe skids. Hope ya'll like it!
Brice