Has anyone made a PVC deer feeder? How do they work and how is your built. I have an idea a little different then what I have seen built. Any suggestions or opinions.
6" tube about 6' long with a removable cap on one end for filling. Opposite end is a 45* section angled towards other end. You can cap the end or leave it open as it will be on the ground. Leave 45* open for the animal to feed. Place upright against tree or stake and secure. Take off removable cap (which should be on top now) to fill. Feed will be gravity fed as the animal consumes out of 45*. Good luck!
ETA: or pretty much exactly as the vid GITM posted while I laboriously typed this out.
Last edited by CharlieFoxtrot; 07/06/14. Reason: GITM is fast...really fast!
As mentioned, if you have any coons in the area, they'll empty it in no time. Keeping coons from eating all our corn is a whole other industry in Texas (cages, traps, spinner plates, "shark teeth", "varmint busters").
It seems strange, but my SIL puts out some corn on the ground for the deer on our place. He has a game camera set up on it, and the coons mostly just seem to ignore it. We have plenty of coons, squirrels, groundhogs, etc, but none of them seem too interested in the corn pile. Guess they must have something they like better!
Myron
How many peckers can a Pecker Checker check if a Pecker Checker could check peckers? (stolen from shootinurse)
I bolted a PVC cap to the back edge of a 24x24 piece of plywood popped the pipe into the cap put a hole in the pipe right above the cap bungeed the tube to a tree filled it and put another cap on the top. Worked real well I used 4 of these for several years. I started out with about an inch hole but the squirrels quickly enlarge the hole to the point they could get their whole head inside to get the last of the corn when it would run dry. I used the plywood to keep the corn up out of the mud. I used 6" pvc 4 ft long and it would hold about 25 lb of shelled corn. I usually filled it once a week. I would still be using them except some lowlife stole them a couple of years ago. I went to a 200 lb slinger feeder. They tried to steel it too but it was full and I had a lock on it. They dumped it over but it was too heavy to get out of the woods. I had to replace the motor unit as it broke up pretty bad when they tipped the whole thing over. It bent one of the legs pretty bad but I was able to straighten it enough to be workable
Last edited by Bill_55; 07/07/14.
You do not have to have had a psychotic episode to work here, it just saves time!
