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Post by JMJ on Jul 15, 2019 17:38:29 GMT -6
I’ve built 10 of these. I built them real stout and can move them with the front end loader and I’ve only had one blow over in a bad wind.
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Post by M-5 on Jul 15, 2019 17:50:35 GMT -6
Had to personalize it.
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Post by hook on Jul 15, 2019 17:55:49 GMT -6
I’ve built 10 of these. I built them real stout and can move them with the front end loader and I’ve only had one blow over in a bad wind. Those are real nice!
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Post by JMJ on Jul 15, 2019 18:05:42 GMT -6
Appreciate it hook. I really like them. If you look close you can see they’re pieced together with scraps. Since I’m in the construction business we naturally have a few scraps left here and there. I contract most of my jobs so any leftover materials belong to me. Those scraps can’t be returned so anything that’s pressure treated we take to the house. After we pile them up for a few months, we will pick a rainy day and get in the shop and build 2 or 3. So it’s fairly cheap and it keeps my help busy if they want to work. Materials to build one with new lumber and metal runs around $200 bucks if I remember right. Which sounds crazy. Money doesn’t go far these days.
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Post by hook on Jul 15, 2019 18:09:45 GMT -6
It sure doesnt. A dang mailbox post cost me 30 bucks today.
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Post by Jake on Jul 15, 2019 18:37:20 GMT -6
Appreciate it hook. I really like them. If you look close you can see they’re pieced together with scraps. Since I’m in the construction business we naturally have a few scraps left here and there. I contract most of my jobs so any leftover materials belong to me. Those scraps can’t be returned so anything that’s pressure treated we take to the house. After we pile them up for a few months, we will pick a rainy day and get in the shop and build 2 or 3. So it’s fairly cheap and it keeps my help busy if they want to work. Materials to build one with new lumber and metal runs around $200 bucks if I remember right. Which sounds crazy. Money doesn’t go far these days. Looked at building some out of lumber and ended up with the $160 plastic one and a free tire. To build them they way I wanted was going to cost me way more.
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Post by M-5 on Jul 15, 2019 18:41:31 GMT -6
Appreciate it hook. I really like them. If you look close you can see they’re pieced together with scraps. Since I’m in the construction business we naturally have a few scraps left here and there. I contract most of my jobs so any leftover materials belong to me. Those scraps can’t be returned so anything that’s pressure treated we take to the house. After we pile them up for a few months, we will pick a rainy day and get in the shop and build 2 or 3. So it’s fairly cheap and it keeps my help busy if they want to work. Materials to build one with new lumber and metal runs around $200 bucks if I remember right. Which sounds crazy. Money doesn’t go far these days. For what it's worth salt is a preservative. The ones destroyed in Michael we're built out of rough cut pine that powder post beetles had eat pretty good and were 6 or 7 yrs old and no rot whatsoever.
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Post by birddog on Jul 15, 2019 20:17:17 GMT -6
Something like this... Except post are at the end and ends are covered with tin. Mine don’t have the runners. Going on 10-12 years. Starting to make minor repairs. Renailing because nails rusting off. Hag a leg break off. Scabbed a 2x4 and 2x6 on to fix that. I used that picture as a model to build four that look very similar. Need a good miter saw to speed things up. They cost me about $700 in material for all four but I used all treated wood, square metal brackets for the legs and expensive weather resistant TORX screws for all connections. They are very sturdy and won't blow over. The trough on mine are a little lower and is sectioned off into for areas.
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Post by 1982vett on Jul 15, 2019 20:33:05 GMT -6
I've never built one with that low of a top. Any issues with it? Only issue id have with that, is my cows showing me how fast they can make kindling out of it.. M-5, grabbed that photo off the internet. I built mine taller so I don’t have to duck under the roof. Don’t want to come face to face with a wasp nest either.
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Post by jedstivers on Jul 15, 2019 20:41:50 GMT -6
these are more in my price range.
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Post by dw on Jul 15, 2019 21:14:48 GMT -6
these are more in my price range. How long do these usually last? How many cows u got on that one? I like it
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Post by sleepy on Jul 15, 2019 21:59:49 GMT -6
I'm just a jack leg, I put minerals in a Rubbermaid tub. They fit just right in a big ole mud tire. When it rains they eat wet minerals, what I put out will be gone within a week anyway.
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Post by jedstivers on Jul 16, 2019 16:51:27 GMT -6
these are more in my price range. How long do these usually last? How many cows u got on that one? I like it Shoot I don’t know. I have some pushing 10 years old I guess. Some have torn up sooner. I’ve had a few hundred cows on maybe 4 or 5 of those. Had 20 on 1
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Post by kentuckyguy on Jul 17, 2019 8:41:28 GMT -6
I am still preferring the barrel mineral feeders although I like the hanging barrels better than I did the tires.
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Post by greybeard on Jul 17, 2019 9:21:22 GMT -6
I thought the barrel feeders were supposed to be hung in such a fashion that they tilted to one side, so the wind pushed them so the bottom hung at an angle off to the the lee side to keep the opening out of the rain..or at least so it shed rain? That's how I always saw them and how I did mine anyway. No?
The only downside I maybe see to using totes is the ones I've used for different things were subject to the tops getting brittle & developing cracks from UV exposure. Tops are pretty thin. Probably don't make much difference for mineral tho.
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