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Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
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01/22/12 09:50 PM
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HadleyRanch
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Does anyone have a clue to what anybody would charge for filling deer feeders and maintaining them?
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
[Re: HadleyRanch]
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01/22/12 10:00 PM
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Brother in-law
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Seek Deerfeeder on here and ask him
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
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01/23/12 12:14 AM
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stxranchman
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Were are you located at? How many feeders, kind(corn or protein or both) and sizes and also how many trips per year?
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
[Re: stxranchman]
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01/27/12 02:22 PM
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HadleyRanch
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I was just wondering if somebody had like a formula to go off of? or something?
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
[Re: HadleyRanch]
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01/27/12 02:28 PM
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Your gona have to know how fast they are eating per feeder...then you can callculate how many pounds per week/2weeks your gona need...if you got 1000lb feeders it will save you some trips
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
[Re: HadleyRanch]
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01/27/12 03:19 PM
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Mud Shark
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I was just wondering if somebody had like a formula to go off of? or something? It sounds stupid, but it works to perfection: 1. Set the length of spin time 2. Put a Plastic Walmart bag to catch the corn 3. Test it 4. Weight it with a small digital scale (about $10 at Walmart) 5. How many times a day do you feed? I know, I know. It sounds stupid and time consuming and it kind of is, but so is filling feeders and sevicing them when you don't have to. It's also way better than running out of feed.
Mud Shark
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
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01/27/12 04:47 PM
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Navasot
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Is it just spin feeders? or self feed?
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
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01/28/12 07:28 AM
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MudShark thanks for the idea/tip .
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
[Re: notamtchance]
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02/01/12 02:28 PM
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Mud Shark
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You bet.
Nav, I don't think you can do it with self fed. Just too much inconsistancy on how much they eat with the self/free feed. They may hit it hard for a few days or even a week, and not use it for the same amount of time. With a spin feeder, it throws roughly the same amount each feed time, so give or take a day or two, you can pretty much nail it down.
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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them
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02/02/12 01:12 AM
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If you don't wish to purchase a trailer w/a pump ect made to fill them, you can usually get the feed store to fill them from their trucks for the price of the feed and mileage if it's very far, if you have enough feeders, and you don't have someone on the lease that has to count sacks to make sure they are not being cheated..
DD
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