I personally have had 3 or 4, I’m down to one and it is actually empty sitting at camp. Very well built but cage size is too small and corn piles up under it where deer can’t get to it. Also getting to the timer is pain staking. One I have left I raised 12”, made cage flush to legs and move bottom of cage up to the motor and relocated the guts to a box out-side on the side of bin. it’s works a lot better, but it’s only 600lbs capacity.

“Old timers” really rely on the eliminator plate to discourage varmints(they will toss the white plastic garment if not lubed), and the cage is more to protect control box from hogs. If they moved the timer guts to out side and varmint plates it would be worth the price. They have kept same design for 10 years now and haven’t evolved, but over all build quality is high. At one time at my buddies ranch we had 13.

Just like this Ramball 36 all feeders can pile up when you have coons. Because of the way the wildlife feeder is designed I have never had this problem

I am fixing my coon problem on my plate style feeders. I’ll report when the fix is done.

Due to the change in fabrication, it would cost me the same. That makes no sense.

Monday I moved an older ‘stand and fill’ type feeder to a new location, and filled it today. One problem with it is that it’s actually too tall to fill when standing alongside it, making it more of a fill from tractor bucket while standing on a stool. Problem 2 with it is that the eliminator plate long since has quit closing off as it should, so I had to put wire cloth around the cage, which never kept a squirrel or coon from getting the corn. So now the corn mostly falls straight down, which isn’t that big a problem. I’ll never buy another one of those.

My newer feeder, the Lamco Low and Throw, is a joy to use. Squirrels and coons can’t reach the spinner, which throws the corn in what must be a 40’ diameter spread. Easy to put corn in it, and the controls and solar panel are right on the side at waist height. A great unit.

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If you have never had that problem with your feeder, get ready cause it's just a matter of time!!

I have 7 of the Texas Wildlife feeders and a host of others. When I bought them years ago I had never heard of The Ramball feeders. I have rebuilt all 7 of the eliminator systems through time. I have had Ramball's feeders for I believe 4 years now. No problems at all and they sling the corn a LOT farther than the TWS feeders.

Another thing I like about Ramball's feeders is I bought the ones with the legs and not on skids. I raise cattle and have several big Brangus bulls that will knock over a TWS feeder in a heartbeat. For that reason I have to stake them down. They can't knock over Ramball's feeders!

I am not knocking TWS equipment. I have several of their 2,000 lb. protein feeders. They are the easiest to fill from a bulk wagon and with my rotational grazing when I am about 3 days from moving cattle into a different pasture, I close the big valve that fills the drops. Deer finish it off and cattle can't get to the feed.

Frio

603, Im curious to the point of doubting the Lamco can keep coons from reaching the spinner plate. I dont doubt that you and others think that but Im wondering how certain you can be. If you get a chance I really do wish you would measure from the edge of the spinner plate to the edge of the plates. I would also be curious how far it is between the bottom and top plate(looks farther than Bucees.) I know Hud and others have these and they seem very much top on the line but Im guessing they are not coon proof. From pics on line, they dont appear tall enough to keep coons from standing on hind legs.
By the way, I went by your place(kinda) twice today, will go by again tomorrow, Friday and twice Sunday. 4 hours each trip. No time to stop and I know yall are busy anyway.

Frio Town---- I feel the reason I have not had this problem is because of the angle of the bottom of the feeder on the TWS. The deer, pigs and turkeys can get to the corn that falls straight down to where it does not build up like that under the ramball 36. I have had 3 of these feeders at least 2 seasons and then the oldest one for 4 seasons. I feel the quality of both feeders is equal and the reason I feel the tws is better is because it is 500 dollars less than the Ramball 36. I dont think theres anything wrong with the Ramball36 except the price in comparing these two feeders. If they were the same price or close to the same then it is a toss up and probably is still a toss up if 500 dollars doesnt matter to you. Well the special goes off today so the difference is now 400.

Freerange, I have pics of coons standing on their hind legs at the Low and Throw, so I know they can and do reach as far as they can between the upper and lower plates. My indication that they can’t reach the spinner is because I’m not seeing a major corn loss (as I did with other feeders I’ve had). And, I have many pics of coons eating off the ground when they wouldn’t if they could feed themselves at the feeder plates. There will always be some kernels of corn left on the plates after it pays off, so it seems they get those and then feed off the ground.

603, sounds like I need to get you a tape measure. I’ve measured a few coons arms and they are 10.5” to 11.25”. Most plate style feeders I’ve measured are 9.5” from spinner to edge of plate.

I’m not gonna argue about it. Until I have a problem, I don’t have a problem.

Length of arm doesn’t matter when you consider that arm gets thicker closer to the shoulder. Just because the arm is longer, doesn’t mean they can reach that far in.

Does having the plate style feeders make the corn throw further or is just for critter prevention?

I do know you don't want to be standing next to a Ramball feeder in shorts when the thing goes off.

Many many pictures show their arms buried up to the chest. They have skinny arms.

Presumably it does both. The normal varmit cages have many barriers that the corn deflects off of and slows the corn down and causes it to not go as far. The plates allow the corn to go as far as it can. I guess the plates could possibly help raise the trajectory to help it throw further but don’t know it that’s why it goes further.

I would say my thoughts mirror. Avg distance is probably further because it’s more directed

I think I'm going to buy one this week, does the corn throw far? I'm thinking about cutting the top of the cage out where the corn won't hit the cage. The cage will still protect motor, timer box and the eliminator plate will keep coons out. I think it will throw better that way.