What way are your hoppers/feeders

ronn

What way do you have your hoppers, hanging from tress or mounted on posts.
I'm looking for ideas as to what to do with mine next year.
I want to place large barrels (120ltr) out in fields, just looking for a ideas of mounting the barrel and keeping horses etc away.
Any info or waky ideas will be considered,
Thanks
:-)

fiestaman

ronn wrote: »

What way do you have your hoppers, hanging from tress or mounted on posts.
I'm looking for ideas as to what to do with mine next year.
I want to place large barrels (120ltr) out in fields, just looking for a ideas of mounting the barrel and keeping horses etc away.
Any info or waky ideas will be considered,
Thanks
:-)

We have 3 legs on ours. The animals dont get at them coz we make sure there set in the cover, they have to be anyway or the crows will empty them in a couple of days if there out in the open.

http://www.maceoinltd.com/24-kg-outdoor-poultry-pheasant-hopper-feeder/

ronn

Good set up alright, bit expensive though to be getting a good few of them.
Thanks

Tawny Owl

The feeders I use I get from work hold about 20kgs of food, I have some photo's on Boards here showing them made up, but we hang them in the bushes, also have the 120 Ltr type with the legs, as was said if you have a feeder in the field it needs to be covered as the crow's will have a field day crows will not go into a feeder thats covered there dead wide.

ronn

I was thinking along the lines of 4in posts and bolting the barrels to them, for the bottom I was going to use some reinforced sqare panel steel to keep horses n cows out, do you reckon the pheasants wood go through to get the feed.???

ronn

I was thinking along the lines of 4in posts and bolting the barrels to them, for the bottom I was going to use some reinforced sqare panel steel to keep horses n cows out, do you reckon the pheasants wood go through to get the feed.???

ronn

This stuff

deeksofdoom

Use the smallet 40L barrels if you can get them, mount them on 3 legs and put them in under trees or briar.

I don't think mounting them to a pole is a good idea, what if you decide that you want to move it?

fiestaman

ronn wrote: »

I was thinking along the lines of 4in posts and bolting the barrels to them, for the bottom I was going to use some reinforced sqare panel steel to keep horses n cows out, do you reckon the pheasants wood go through to get the feed.???

A bit of 2x2 wont cost much to make legs. Cut a decent angle where they bolt to the barrell and they will be very stable. You will have to get them into cover or you will only b feeding crows. If there gona be out, use pallets to cover them. If you use a post and ground is soft in places youll hav to drive deeper, then the hopper will b on the ground, hard to manage that way.

Kells1

Does anyone know where you could buy the 40l drums separately so you could make up the rest yourself to make a feeder? Just thinking of trying to save a few bob....

shotie

i us the 20lt buckets with a spring feeder on it and then hang it from a tree branch with the handle best thing every and easyl moved around and no one can see them or know where they are. had them barrels with legs and found them too akward to be moveing around the place .

ronn

The reason for the large barrels would be so I'd only have to fill them once or twice a year.
I'd put larger barrels in hard to reach places and place smaller ones around the pens.
At the moment we have loads of small barrels around the place, but no one to fill them. Plenty to complain there empty though.
Ive tried the mayo buckets but squirrels just chew them to bits, and I find they flap in the wind.
Thanks for all the tips and hits

Sika98k

ronn wrote: »

What way do you have your hoppers, hanging from tress or mounted on posts.
I'm looking for ideas as to what to do with mine next year.
I want to place large barrels (120ltr) out in fields, just looking for a ideas of mounting the barrel and keeping horses etc away.
Any info or waky ideas will be considered,
Thanks
:-)

Come and have a look at mine. Not a million miles away from you if you remember.

ronn

Cheers sika,
I wouldn't mind having a look. If that's ok with you,
Remind me again which part of the world you reside in.
I've a head like a sieve

Theshooter2012

I have a few feeders up around the place and this is the most successful one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNi5tKN5Y58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwzXVyTVakw

As you can see in the videos above it is mounted on a post by hanging it and ting to the post to stop the wind from shaking it. It's in the corner of the field, and wired off from livestock. Simple but evidently the pheasants don't mind.

ronn

Nice set up, I bought a bracket for mounting barrels €25, just to see what it was, just a piece of metal wit two bolts welded to it and two holes drilled in it to attach it to the post.

EPointer=Birdss

ronn wrote: »

Nice set up, I bought a bracket for mounting barrels €25, just to see what it was, just a piece of metal wit two bolts welded to it and two holes drilled in it to attach it to the post.

Jaysus lad I've built 2 hoppers for 25 quid. Proper blue barrells with legs.
A length of a lat screwed to the pole from inside the barrell with a few washers would do the same job as that bracket if I understand it right.

ronn

He he,
It was an experimental purchase, the place I bought it from didnt have pics online and the minute it arrived I could tell why.
I'm just trying to get some tried and tested ideas from you lot

EPointer=Birdss

Showers of fckrs

Here's my ones. Barrells on donedeal or in local markets for a tenner.
Wouldn't use the cup again. Prefer the spring if the wheat is clean but had this behind the house so was easy get pics of it.
In a but of cover & great job.

Dog for scale.

ronn

Why is the dog for sale. He he

Good set up. Why do u not like the wright feeders, I'd prefare them to springs.
What market did you get the barrels from.

I had another brainwave today, a lot of our barrels are getting destroyed by squirrels and we have metal 120ltr that we don't use, so I'm going to mount the metal barrels on posts and sit the plastic barrels inside them.

EPointer=Birdss

ronn wrote: »

Why is the dog for sale. He he

Good set up. Why do u not like the wright feeders, I'd prefare them to springs.
What market did you get the barrels from.

I had another brainwave today, a lot of our barrels are getting destroyed by squirrels and we have metal 120ltr that we don't use, so I'm going to mount the metal barrels on posts and sit the plastic barrels inside them.

I just find them more wasteful than the springs.

Sounds like a prime way of trapping squirrels. Rig a multi capture trap to a barrel. Don't have them here.

What do mean mount the metal barrels on posts & the plastics beside them?
I get the metal barrel piece but why bother with the plastic ones if using the metal ones?

ronn

We got the metal barrels to store the wheat in originally but the sun/cold created condensation inside the metal barrel and the wheat was destroyed.

I mean mount the metal 120ltr to posts and sit say a 60 ltr barrel inside the metal one. The lids have the straps on them so the squirrels can't get in near the wheat.

It's clear as mud in my head. :-)

EPointer=Birdss

ronn wrote: »

We got the metal barrels to store the wheat in originally but the sun/cold created condensation inside the metal barrel and the wheat was destroyed.

I mean mount the metal 120ltr to posts and sit say a 60 ltr barrel inside the metal one. The lids have the straps on them so the squirrels can't get in near the wheat.

It's clear as mud in my head. :-)

Ah I have you. That could work. Just make sure you put in the plastic barrel before you fill it

ace86

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

Showers of fckrs

Here's my ones. Barrells on donedeal or in local markets for a tenner.
Wouldn't use the cup again. Prefer the spring if the wheat is clean but had this behind the house so was easy get pics of it.
In a but of cover & great job.

Do u leave the legs of the hooper just rest on top of the ground or do you bury them into the ground a few inches or so that they won't fall over in wind or be knocked by other animals?

Tawny Owl

When using the wright feeders if you take a bean can lid and pop it into the bottom of the write feeder, this will stop the feed flowing out through the bottom holes reducing the amount of wheat wasted to the ground.;)

EPointer=Birdss

ace86 wrote: »

Do u leave the legs of the hooper just rest on top of the ground or do you bury them into the ground a few inches or so that they won't fall over in wind or be knocked by other animals?

Usually just tie it to a tree but have it in a well sheltered area. Sink it a small bit but nothing major.