I'll try and keep this short, but I do need to vent a little bit too.
Ever since I started hunting deer seriously, I've had to fix something on my feeders seems like every year....for a while, it was every time I filled them. Over time, I figured out how to make them as close to varmint proof as you can get. My theory is, forget about cages, they won't mess with the timer box if they can get to the corn on the spinner....so I just feed them a little, coons and squirrels gotta eat too ya know. Anyway, I've gotten my boxes pretty tough, to the point where they are even hard for me to open and the varmints haven't messed with my stuff for the last year or so. This year, it looks more like 2-legged varmint damage. You may remember a thread I posted a while back about cedar choppers.....we'll they're gone, but apparently, when you complain to the landowner and he kicks them off, they vandalize your stuff. One feeder, a cheap one with the sliding cover on the side of the timer box, had the latch completely broken off and the cover plate gone. The other one, with a 50 cal ammo can for a box, had wires cut and yanked out of the connectors, lots of cutting and splicing to repair it, only to find out the timer is toast. To say I was ticked would be an understatement. I'm already running late getting things up and running this year, just been too busy with work this year, only to find out that all my stuff is broken. I'm going to have to rebuild them anyway, and replace at least one timer, so that brings me to the question:
What is the best, most robust feeder timer on the market? I don't need a ton of features, the deer don't really seem to come to the feeder in daylight anyway, but at least it keeps them on the property. I just need it to feed twice a day.
Ever since I started hunting deer seriously, I've had to fix something on my feeders seems like every year....for a while, it was every time I filled them. Over time, I figured out how to make them as close to varmint proof as you can get. My theory is, forget about cages, they won't mess with the timer box if they can get to the corn on the spinner....so I just feed them a little, coons and squirrels gotta eat too ya know. Anyway, I've gotten my boxes pretty tough, to the point where they are even hard for me to open and the varmints haven't messed with my stuff for the last year or so. This year, it looks more like 2-legged varmint damage. You may remember a thread I posted a while back about cedar choppers.....we'll they're gone, but apparently, when you complain to the landowner and he kicks them off, they vandalize your stuff. One feeder, a cheap one with the sliding cover on the side of the timer box, had the latch completely broken off and the cover plate gone. The other one, with a 50 cal ammo can for a box, had wires cut and yanked out of the connectors, lots of cutting and splicing to repair it, only to find out the timer is toast. To say I was ticked would be an understatement. I'm already running late getting things up and running this year, just been too busy with work this year, only to find out that all my stuff is broken. I'm going to have to rebuild them anyway, and replace at least one timer, so that brings me to the question:
What is the best, most robust feeder timer on the market? I don't need a ton of features, the deer don't really seem to come to the feeder in daylight anyway, but at least it keeps them on the property. I just need it to feed twice a day.
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