Fish Feeder Build--Directional

[AgHntr10]

Size, 1/8" clearance at all points. I am concerned about long term food dust build up and will be watching that. The bucket/motor combination is removable by taking it loose at the adjusment brackets.

I figured you had thought of it, just couldn't tell from the pictures. I like it

[J.W.P]

Wouldn't be much to pick up one of those cans of hair from store to blow in there from time to time to keep dust from building up. Thats if it is rememberd..

[Cuz]

Wow, that's different.

[J.W.P]

Supposed to say this.. Not "hair"..

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Wouldn't be much to pick up one of those cans of air from store to blow in there from time to time to keep dust from building up. Thats if it is rememberd..

[Outback77]

Nice idea and good work. Keep us posted on how it works

[pyrobow]

Got more done

With the bottom basically in place


It was time to go to work on the top side. I went to work on the legs. I have made the mistake of putting the funnel in first. These leg supports mount 1 bolt below the funnel and 1 bolt above. So I bolted all 4 supports on the bottom and then put the funnel in and bolted the tops.



I cut the legs and stood it upright. We normally use 3 legs but this was mounting on the dock with no animal traffic, so I chose 4. By mounting to a bracket on the dock the 4 legs will allow me to be fairly straight up, thereby reducing the footprint of the feeder. This on will take up 2' on the front of the dock where our old tripod took up 4'.

After I got the legs on it is was time for a TEST. I hooked the timer up temporary and put in a little FEED. I put a deflector on it to catch the food. I did not want fish food scattered everywhere and I needed an Idea of how much it was feeding. Once it is on the dock there is no way to measure feed amount.

IT FLUNG LIKE CRAZY I CAN'T WAIT TO GET IT ON THE DOCK



With the legs done it was time to finish up the sheet metal. I started by adding a sloping roof on the front to reduce the chance of rain running back in to the spinner and clogging it.



I then added sides to dress it up and reduce bugs.



Getting close now. Need a door, some more rivets and some sealant and then paint.

[pyrobow]

One of the ideas here is keeping the food off the dock to reduce varmints. The front legs mount on a bracket at the very front edge of the dock. Any food that happens to bounce around and not throw out will roll down the cone and into the water. The edge of the cone sets about 6" out over the water.

[gumbl3]

I have no use for one, but that is a cool build using what you got

[dustoffer]

That long chute to keep their little coon arms away from the spinner will work. One of my customers has a Moultrie that sits on the bulkhead and I had to put hardware cloth over the chute. Some of the pellets fall on the bulkhead so that does draw them, but have not had any problems with them tearing up the mechanism. Now, quality on the plastic spinner plate--that's a different story.

[pyrobow]

It is more than 13 inches from the front back to the spinner. It would have to be a freaky coon to have that long of an arm. I do not believe any feeder is coon proof but I tried to make it hard on them.