Can someone post pictures of their protein feeder. Wanting to make one, but just don't quite understand how you keep the feed from pouring out the ends-just a little dense sometimes.

Thanks

If you go to my website you can see a picture of the one I build.
One thing I can tell you is I use PVC and especially on the "T" do don't glue the fittings, just use three screws. That way you can make adjusts. I also like to ream out the "stop" on the female fitting and allow the pipe to go much further into the "T" thus controlling how much feed is allowed to come out and of course I use screws there also.

You probably mean the steel ones mounted to the bottom of a barrel or steel box, but here's one of the ones I make. They hold about 75 pounds of protein. The up-turn in the bottom acts like one of those gravity fed pet-feeders. Holes in the bottom allow moisture to escape. I mounted them to trees at first, but squirrels ate the protein, then the feeders, and pigs could knock them plumb off the tree. I now have them free-swinging. Pigs have a hard time eating out of them, but deer can eat from them easily. Whenever the pigs try to get up on them the feeders swing out of their way, but I've watched deer stand there and eat happily.

How do you hang them? What does the top look like?

I glued a 4" female threaded fitting to the top, and it's capped with a male 4" clean-out plug. I drilled a hole through the center of the clean-out and used a machine-threaded eye-bolt and some washers and nuts to mount the eye-bolt to the cap. It's hung with 1/4" wire rope tied to the eye, over a limb, and cleated to a tree.

It's difficult to fill as it is because you have to lower it all the way down and remove the cap to fill it. My next version will a "Y" near the top, with the hanging cap permanently attached at the top and the cleanout mounted on the angled-up side for easier filling.

edited to add: I don't have any feeders here at the house, but I think I have the parts for a top. I'll try to throw one together today and get a pic of it.

That's a great idea. It is just free swinging from tree limb ?

Yeah, it's just free-swinging. The pigs can bump it with their snouts but it won't hold still for them to get ahold of it. Deer just stick their noses in and eat.

edited to add: The one in the photo is camoflaged, but just because I had a can of primer and some camo paint sitting there when I put it together, and I was bored. I have others out that are still "PVC White" that work just as well as the camo'd one. On another note, you'll want to put them together a few days before you plan to put them out to let the vapors of the PVC glue and primer fade. It's a good "after work but not the weekend yet" project that doesn't require power tools, so a coupla' cold ones can be safely enjoyed in the process.

edited again to add: Here's a picture of the top with hardware. It's just a male to female cleanout with an eye-bolt through the top of the cleanout plug.

Thanks. great idea

I made mine with a 90 degree that necked down from 4" o 3" and extended it 12" and cut a 45 on the end. If you make the horizontal part long enough eventually the feed won't come out. So just make it at least 12" long, put feed in it to see where it stops...then cut it off just past.

Mine started with an 85gal barrel, some electrical conduit pipe, and a tube from Sweeney feeders, and a metal lid from Chasmac.com, it will hold about 450# of corn.

Here's mine. Cheap but it works....