well welcome back to Steve rod reviews today it's the middle of the winter got a project on
to go this is another one of them barrels I had for feeding bears apparently so I'm switching
from feeding bears to feeding deer because this one actually survived I did show in the past my
other barrel that I filled with corn Wow they're not blocked it by the time them bears got rid
of it so this one here I'm going to hang up in the tree like I did last year except completely
different I'm making a whole new mounting system if you like I'll put a couple links down below at
the end of this video them big boxes that show the bits and I had dug from pine tree lying outdoors
with me helped me out with this great big boom that we kind of jammed up in the tree there well
it worked but this video was all about not so much the barrel but changing some of the ideas
that I have now compared to what I did back then and you know what if you're not making mistakes
you're not doing anything so I like to learn from my mistakes and I do make quite a few mistakes so
I'll show you what I did so far that's different than the last one anyways anyways we've got some
good chain on here rather than use the the cable I use that steel cable I think it was 1/4 inch
chain is much better so I got it all rigged up this far so far I take you off the I try pod
and I'll show you what I got going on here and the main part of this vid is to talk about the
timer I got this timer that ya fastened on the bottom I'll show you how I'm going to do that
and I want to explain about that timer because that was the most fascinating part of all of us
was to actually mount it up high so the Bears can't get to it and then have this timer go off
and spread the corn down below and I'm using whole corn and I learned quite a bit from that
time I'm going to talk about that at the end but let's get to this right now okay so we'll start
off at the bottom here I had to replace one of these legs here and if you notice there yeah
the whole top part was chewed up by a bear yeah that's all from the bear so I replaced it with
another one and this spot right here is where I had this feeder just mounted on the ground with
a I just had a big strap going across it next to a tree and you know what they chewed the strap right
off and just drag this all over so I'm covering this up just what piece of plywood and then on
the bottom I'll show you what I'm gonna do here poly melt that timer but all they do is it just
have it carriage bolted there's three here and then when you get to the top just put a little
bit of a clasped here all the way around on all three now I do have a lid and this is a lid right
here seals on the top real nice and neat so let's go oh yeah by the way I got this already mocked
up ahead of time this is going to go on the bottom and I got to put a hole here for the corn to come
through and mount the timer on the other side and this is the timer that I had on my first one guys
this thing is just awesome you would not believe how great this thing works and I'll explain this
a little bit better coming up and I got some more chain so I'll be rigging up some fancy mounting
system to hang this up in the air this year a lot different than me at last one you have to
check out the last one it was a little on the rough side but I learned a lot so let's get to
the bottom of this this feeder here and I'll show you how I'm going to mount this on here
and it's very easy to do now if you're wondering this is just the bottom I guess a stack for for a
toilet here so I'll show you there it'll come in here or not but yeah that's just a toilet stock
here and I just got this these pieces here you know from your plumbing section and here it was
fairly inexpensive so let's get to that right now and let's see how I'm gonna do the bottom okay so
you can see on the bottom here I just had a piece of plastic in here and I drilled some holes for
for drainage case any water got in there but now this is where the the spinner is going to go on
the bottom to spread the corner so I'll just take my my drill here let's just pop a hole in here
okay now we'll take that prefabricated piece I have over there and we'll put it on the sides
next okay you can see all this fits in here like this and all I did was orientate it so of course
one of these you don't want to be across from here because you never get your screws on right
so there we go a little bit of an arrow here put it on like this there now I'll just drive
in them screws on the side here and Bob's your uncle we'll come back when that's done this is
the unit right here you can see on the bottom here the size of the hole that you have to have
so you know what this is gonna work fine this would be fine you don't need too big of a hole
anyway it's an inch and a quarter I believe but you can see how this fits on the bottom and this
will orientate all the all the different positions you want now it does come with hardware and I use
their hardware last time you know what I got an improvement for that you're gonna see that coming
up next it does come with the batteries and I'll tell you what these aren't cheap batteries these
are very good batteries lasted me the whole season so they're very simple you just mount
your four batteries in here and user-friendly like really user-friendly how to set up the timer and
you don't have to carry your instructions with you they're right here this is just an awesome
unit I think I paid like 50 bucks now I'm gonna show you how I'm gonna mount it on here maybe a
little bit different but I want it to be able to come off so in the fall when I'm finished
I want to be able to just reach up grab it take it off bring it in for the winter the other one
it's still up there it's still hanging from the tree so I just left it on for the rest of the
season but no I'm going to take it you know down next time and just leave the barrel up
there you know so cuz it's empty by now anyways so let's get to how I'm going to mount this so I can
take it off easy okay so let's get to it right here let's punch a hole through the center here
there we go okay now you don't know if you can see it from there but I do have some lines on
here I'm gonna have some more and I'm gonna show you how this mounts on the easiest way
next okay so you can see what I got going on here and this here I'll show you one of these it's just
it's not ever gonna focus on there there we go so you could see where it's one quarter twenty
thread on one end and on this end it's me to go into would just put two double nuts on it then
you drive it in let's get to that right now I got the holes already marked and just lining it
up that's it I'll bring it back when I got these two nuts taken off and I'll mount it on here and
I'll show you how this is gonna go I got it all fastened down and as you can see here yeah just
wing nuts there you go so now I can take this off anytime I want it's so easy it's not holding on
there what they had before was nuts and bolts and you know what when I was there in the fall
this was all iced up and frosted and I couldn't even find the fasteners especially when this is
all countersunk in here so I'm going with this right here oh there she is it's all done took
me out the shop here complete about an hour's time to do all this and yeah it's so easy with the wing
nuts on the bottom and take it off now there's something I'd like to talk about this timer is
the batteries that came with it lasted me past the season that I needed I filled this up six
weeks prior to the deer hunt it took a bag and a half which is about 75 pounds to fill this now I
set my timer for six seconds a day and every day when I went out yes there was corn on the
ground and that's all you really need so this barrel here that took 75 pounds lasted me six
weeks and there was still corn left in it when I left so you know it's actually a little bit more
than six weeks from the time we filled it in the time we finished our hunt yeah it was more than
six weeks and this barrel lasted all that time and there was corn on the ground first day of our hunt
last year one of my buddies was huntin about maybe 60 feet away from this Barrel on the the big huge
rock these guys followed the channel area I made a ladder to go up against the rock there and yeah
he was sitting there the first morning we had maybe 10 inches of snow on the ground and two
deer come up beside him and just as he got his gun up a partridge took off and scared the two
deer away sounds like a story but it's true and we never seen no deer the rest of the whole week
but yeah so that's pretty well it there you know this is all scrap pieces that I had and the main
thing I wanted to do is make some improvement from next year so you are going to see me make
this fancy rig that mounts to the to the tree to hang this from completely different idea than I
did last year and much improved so yeah it was a lot of fun with Doug from fine tree lighting
outdoors there last year to help me do this you never know maybe this year he might come up with
his buddy Jamie - Jamie you're welcome to come up but yeah this is pretty well in here doesn't
look fancy guys but I'm not fancy either so thanks for joining me here today never seen this channel
before are you welcome to subscribe and you're going to see this be installed - and hopefully
well we're not going to be feeding no more bears anymore we're going to be feeding the deer Cheers
you