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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer925" data-source="post: 3841552" data-attributes="member: 45957"><p>At my place in southeast ok, I have had to resort to hanging feeders to keep the hogs and bears from damaging my feeders. Place the feeder with the legs (or hanging) it such that the thrower unit is at least 7 feet off the ground. Stake the legs in place with steel posts so that the hogs can't knock the feeder over. That should take care of the hogs damaging your timer units. </p><p></p><p>The bears are a different story. The thrower unit needs to be at least 9 feet off the ground. Make sure that there are no trees and tree limbs within 8 feet of the barrel. Bears are great climbers and are smarter than most people think. (They can also climb and jump from one tree to another or to your feeder if there are any limbs stout enough to hold them. Don't ask me how I know.) I built my own gimbles out of pipe and attached them to the trees. Wrap the tree trunk with closely spaced barbed wire (recommend 4 point) from just above the base of the tree to 6 to 7 feet off the ground. Extra work to do this but I haven't lost a feeder unit since I started this (knock on wood) and it's a lot cheaper than replacing tore up feeder units. </p><p></p><p>Just my observations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer925, post: 3841552, member: 45957"] At my place in southeast ok, I have had to resort to hanging feeders to keep the hogs and bears from damaging my feeders. Place the feeder with the legs (or hanging) it such that the thrower unit is at least 7 feet off the ground. Stake the legs in place with steel posts so that the hogs can't knock the feeder over. That should take care of the hogs damaging your timer units. The bears are a different story. The thrower unit needs to be at least 9 feet off the ground. Make sure that there are no trees and tree limbs within 8 feet of the barrel. Bears are great climbers and are smarter than most people think. (They can also climb and jump from one tree to another or to your feeder if there are any limbs stout enough to hold them. Don't ask me how I know.) I built my own gimbles out of pipe and attached them to the trees. Wrap the tree trunk with closely spaced barbed wire (recommend 4 point) from just above the base of the tree to 6 to 7 feet off the ground. Extra work to do this but I haven't lost a feeder unit since I started this (knock on wood) and it's a lot cheaper than replacing tore up feeder units. Just my observations. [/QUOTE]
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