Originally Posted By: fish n chips
Has anybody had a feeder sink under water, and did it still work? Are the electronics messed up after that?

Keep all those ideas coming. The crazier the better. I'm relaying to the wife all the things that could be done to accomodate the cheap feeder. She is beggining to accept the fact that it might just be better to splurge on a good one!!!!!


Your wife is a smart lady!

A friend of mine has a DF425 Texas Hunter on a small trailer. IIRC it's an old single place jet ski trailer with a small platform on it. He can move the trailer closer/further from the water providing the bank isn't too steep. A large storm was coming that was supposed to dump a LOT of rain, so he told his ranch foreman to move the feeder up to high ground. That was 3-4 days before I came down to visit. We're driving around the ponds, and see the handle on top of the feeder sticking out of the water. Needless to say, he's not a happy camper. The guy that was supposed to move the feeder got it out of the water later that day. It was a mess, as it was full of food. I got all the food out of it, hosed it out, and cleaned it up. Removed the battery and timer, put in the pole barn and set a fan on it for a day to dry it out. In the meantime, he runs over the top of the feeder with his truck, turning it into a semi "U" shape. Things are going really well...........

He's got an old blacksmith's anvil, and some hammers, so I'm able to get it beat back into shape. We put a new battery in the feeder, and swiped another timer from one of the other feeders that he has. It fired right up and it's still working, 4 years later.

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