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Raccoons getting my feeder help?
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<blockquote data-quote="257WTBY" data-source="post: 2614058" data-attributes="member: 56428"><p>Bears are hard on feeders. Raccoons can be too, but bears will destroy them. I hang mine between two trees. I tie to one tree and sling a pulley on the other put the feeder in the middle. With the pulley on one end run the rope thru it and put feeder in the middle. That way you can raise it to feed and lower to refill. I use corn a lot before season and sweet feed during season and bears LOVE sweet feed. That's the only way I figured out how to keep the bears from getting to it. </p><p></p><p>I tried a lot before this way and had bears destroy several feeders. I have several gravity feeders as well I buy 6-8ft piece of black PVC with cap. I dig a hole with post hole diggers about 2ft in the ground. Stand the pipe up fill it with dirt I took out of the hole up to about ground level. On the outside right at ground level I use 1 1/4 hole saw and drill hole on each side. Fill it with corn it will trickle out the hole then stop. Put the cap on. Two five gallon buckets of corn fill it about perfect if empty and is actually pretty hardy I've got videos of bears whacking it with their paws to get more corn to come out. I never put sweet feed in these or bears will do anything they can to eat all the sweet feed, break it off, rip the whole pipe out of the ground, they wont quit to they get all the sweet feed...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="257WTBY, post: 2614058, member: 56428"] Bears are hard on feeders. Raccoons can be too, but bears will destroy them. I hang mine between two trees. I tie to one tree and sling a pulley on the other put the feeder in the middle. With the pulley on one end run the rope thru it and put feeder in the middle. That way you can raise it to feed and lower to refill. I use corn a lot before season and sweet feed during season and bears LOVE sweet feed. That's the only way I figured out how to keep the bears from getting to it. I tried a lot before this way and had bears destroy several feeders. I have several gravity feeders as well I buy 6-8ft piece of black PVC with cap. I dig a hole with post hole diggers about 2ft in the ground. Stand the pipe up fill it with dirt I took out of the hole up to about ground level. On the outside right at ground level I use 1 1/4 hole saw and drill hole on each side. Fill it with corn it will trickle out the hole then stop. Put the cap on. Two five gallon buckets of corn fill it about perfect if empty and is actually pretty hardy I've got videos of bears whacking it with their paws to get more corn to come out. I never put sweet feed in these or bears will do anything they can to eat all the sweet feed, break it off, rip the whole pipe out of the ground, they wont quit to they get all the sweet feed... [/QUOTE]
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