With the strong winds throughout most of the state today, I was wondering if any of you lost your feeders and/or blinds. If not, I'd love to know what type of system you're using to keep them tied down. Any info would be appreciated.
I would say the easiest is the drive a tpost next to each leg and then wire the tpost to the feeder leg. This can be an issue if you have a place that has a lot of rocks. We do and in some instances we drilled a hole thru the leg and drove 2 foot piece of rebar thru it. Only issue is, if we need to take the feeder down for any reason it is a pain and not as simple as just unwiring the leg.
I spent an hour pulling rebar out of dry ground a couple of weeks ago, then finally used the truck/rope to make life easier (we were moving the feeder)
My feeder has 4 legs, I drove t-posts near 2 legs and just tie-wired it.
My blind is 6x4 and 2' off of the ground, I drove a t-post at an angle in the front & back, put eye bolts thru the blind. I then wired the eye bolt to the t-post using wire and a turn buckle, cheap and easy.
It has worked so far but I can not make it back to the lease until Friday so hopefully all is well.
I like t-post and strand wire with turnbuckles for our tower blinds. We don't have allot of trouble with the feeders falling over as we do with the blinds. --- knock on wood. Now all our feeders will be down!
The only feeder that fell over was one that was at the top of a hill.
Box blind always sat on the ground so no tie downs...
Tripod was 14' so I used a 4' Screw in tie down and a turn buckle...
Did not ever worry about feeder 55gal drum full of corn in a pen .....
John
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