Picking up an older thread here, but wanted to add a setup that we finished this past weekend.
Pen is roughly 35' in diameter, feeder is slightly back of center, gate opening is 7'-10" x 3'-0, trip wire runs underneath the feeder @ 12" high and is spring loaded onto a pin holding the cable that is attached to the gate. Trip wire pull is about 4 lbs (roughly measured, but takes hardly any movement to trip) 2 bolts slide into the gate guide to hold the gate up when feeding.
Currently, we have about $95 into this pen, but's only because this pen was a previous deer setup and everything we needed, we pretty much scrounged from the property!
If the video link works, it shows the gate in action.
(bare with me, I'm getting the video link to work....)
https://youtu.be/edWIe4C26Aw
Pen is roughly 35' in diameter, feeder is slightly back of center, gate opening is 7'-10" x 3'-0, trip wire runs underneath the feeder @ 12" high and is spring loaded onto a pin holding the cable that is attached to the gate. Trip wire pull is about 4 lbs (roughly measured, but takes hardly any movement to trip) 2 bolts slide into the gate guide to hold the gate up when feeding.
Currently, we have about $95 into this pen, but's only because this pen was a previous deer setup and everything we needed, we pretty much scrounged from the property!
If the video link works, it shows the gate in action.
(bare with me, I'm getting the video link to work....)
https://youtu.be/edWIe4C26Aw
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