“Toolbox” Pig Feeder

“Toolbox” Pig Feeder HOG EQUIPMENT & IDEAS You can make an efficient virtually indestructible pig feeder from an ordinary pickup toolbox says Seth Chaploney Bradford N Y
    “It was cheap to make and there’s very little waste ” says Chaploney
    He started with a 5 1/2-ft plastic toolbox that a friend gave him He used a sawzall to cut three 12-in square openings on front of the toolbox leaving strips between the holes and a 2-in high barrier at the bottom Then he screwed on a 12-in wide board at an angle inside the toolbox leaving a 1 1/2-in high gap at the bottom for feed to fall through
    “It’ll hold about 200 lbs of feed The weathertight lid keeps the feed dry ” says Chaploney who raises 3 pigs on his hobby farm “I prop up the lid then dump feed by hand over a fence and into the feeder The feed trickles down to the openings and the pigs have all the food they need There’s very little waste The lid latches shut so pigs can’t lift it up ”
    At first Chaploney set the toolbox on a pair of cinder blocks but the weight of the feed caused the toolbox to sag So he removed the blocks and screwed a pair of wooden poles onto each end of the toolbox that are anchored in the ground
    “My total cost for the project was about 50 cents worth of screws Everything else I already had ” notes Chaploney
    Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Seth Chaploney 3311 Barkley Hill Bradford N Y 14815 ph 607 542-7229; sachaploney@aol com

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