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heres the motor out of a All Seasons - 7 years and still works

If you do decide to go with a feeder - get yourself or make yourself a good varmint cage - damn Coons.Also some cooper tubing for the wires etc for the solar panel.

we've been using all seasons for yrs never had a problem with them. have them set up with the solar charger.

I've got a Cables feeder which holds close to 400lbs.

1) It's got a built in ladder so I can load it without issue

2) It's 12 volt vs. 6 volt so it throws much further than other feeders

3) It costs more but given the added capacity I save money on gas driving out to fill it up which I can do half as much given the capacity.

4) I put on a solar pannel to keep it charged so it can go well more than a month without me showing up and still run.

I did have to weather proof the thing to make sure it didn't leak.

Spot

I know one thing- I ownt have nay other timer except the one I mentioned from now on.Hands down the best there is .

The solar panel All Season puts out aint to bad either .Usually the first thing that happens to a solar panel is the sun cracks them - then they get water in them ..have not had that problem with the All Season solar.

was looking to supplement feed before the season, during and after the season to get them through the winter. It's rough mountainous country for around here and the deer have a hard go of it. We are trying to help build the herd too.

We are planting spring and fall crops a for the deer.

I like the gravity feeders with the bucket on top. What size dia pipe is that? 3" ? 4" ? I'd rather spend a few bucks on the feeder and more on the feed.

Now somebody understands the use of a feeder - good job blammer

hogs got this one but it still works

Metal T-post there buddy !! takes care of the hogs and cows..

Roger - how the hell are ya keeping them damn Coons off that solar panel - I had to put a varmint cage and then run the wires from the solar panel through cooper tubing just to get the squirrels and coons from eating them up...

never have had to much of problem with coons. we got them staked with t post now.

Consider yourself lucky !! Ive hunted every section of Texas ..and always had a coon problem...feel free to pm me your lease location - I would really like to know what part of Tx your in with no coon problem.

duval county. we see one one on occasion

I suppose you wouldnt see to many Coons around the
Golden Triangle area - wish we could say the same !

don't know about the bears or not. I think we have a few, we also have a few bear hunters in the club.

If one is ravaging a particular feeder during season, I'll happily let him/her hunt it for the bear.

Rodngun,

We have a bad coon problem in North La. They can tear a spinner up in short order and they are much stronger than I gave them credit for. I built a varmint cage out of 2x4 dog wire for one feeder and the little pest broke all of the welds on the wire and still got to the spinner on that feeder. I have pics of as many as 7-8+ at a time under some of them with quite a few of them hanging from the spinners.

I learned the last couple of years that they can't get to the spinner on hanging feeders, they'll just slip off of the bbl. They still eat some of the feed from the ground, but at least they don't tear up the spinners.

Just had another spinner (On Time) on a 55gal tripod torn up this year by the little pests. I stopped by Academy and bought a varmint cage for around $14. It is about 12-14" square, screws to the bbl around the spinner, and has an access door. Hopefully it works.

I have several hanging feeders and may end up converting several others. They are definitely easier to fill.

Have a good one,

loder

Short piece of 4 inch PVC suspended around each leg with string or thin wire cable... they can't climb the legs that way....

BTW I have not put my battery back yet and hence no photos of the gravy easy 55 gal self feeders YET....

Wish I had a closer photo, but you get the idea of the self feeder, and you can see the corn in the one cut out on this side almost covered by a fence post....

I"ll do better whenever I get to the other side once...

rost, what's the diameter of your hog fence?

I have a bad hog problem on one of the properties I hunt, so I'm going to put a similar pen up. I was thinking of just buying a 100' roll of 3' tall hog wire and building a 31.5' dia pen with t-post every 8'.

Thanks,

loder

Don't let em hunt for Bears over the bait......they will burn ya a new one in NC for Bear hunting over bait.

Ah, thanks for the bear tip. I'll double check the regulations to make sure everyone's legal if they go after them.