Need an engineer to calculate stress loads

[Hoggslayer]

NOT at all. This site and many others like it provide help to one another. I spent about half an hour today PMing back and forth helping a fellow TBHer with an arrow question. I have been on this forum since before the crash and have spend no telling how many hours offering help where I have expertise and even given money to TBHers that I don't know nor will ever meet when they were in need.

I am guessing you just don't get it. Some folks call it "pay it forward". It is you and others like you with that attitude that keeps me (and others) off this and other forums. I have seen a lot of it on here and it is too bad for TBH, too bad for many wanting and or needing help with something and mostly too bad for you cause you are the real loser to the benefits of being a member of this group.

This is spot on and why TBH is so great.

I hunt rabbits with a stick

[double bogey]

I have used 1 1/2" conduit to support a 55 gal barrel feeder, and my dad had one with 1 1/8" type l copper. Not an engineer, you don't need Sch 40 pipe on this. As well as this is braced at the top, it should be pretty sturdy.

[Dale Moser]

Need an engineer to calculate stress loads

Lighter material will hold it, but I'd use what you have and sleep well. Hogs, storms, and all that. When you get down to that small diameter, I wouldn't go lighter.

I am most certainly NOT an engineer.


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[Deer716]

Well while your into calculations you might as well add wind and seismic zone calculations to it. Hehe j/k kidding. The best way to know is to try it and find out. Old school style. Like others said it should be fine

[Osceola]

Lighter pipe and a sounder of hogs will not end well.


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[Bily Lovec]

you're better off finding some toothless, backyard welder than an engineer for this

[easeup]

got it! as you were gentlemen........

[stevieray54]

May want to check with a steel supply company, they can probably give you good advice since they are wanting to sell you some steel

[stickerpatch59]

you're better off finding some toothless, backyard welder than an engineer for this

what i'm talking about^^^ some of ya'll way overthink these things.

it's not a nuclear submarine you are building.

[dfkoon]

Steel is about all the same density. So you could do thinner gage or different material to reduce weight. Unless planning to backpack in, I'm not sure why weight is an issue. Cost is what I would consider.

For a design, the height and spread of legs would be of interest. You don't really want it to tip over in high wind when low on corn either. And I've never had to anchor feeders. The last setup was on a slope too.