My husband would like to build a hay and grain feeder for our three horses using a 50 gallon drum, cut in half. We have lots of scrap wood and iron to work with. Does anyone know where to find instructions for building one of these? Thanks!

-- Lisa in WI (llehman16@hotmail.com), November 05, 2001

Answers

cut in half. fold over the sharp lips on the cut line, poke a few holes in it for drainage, put on stand and your done. Not sure you need much of an instruction manual.

-- gary (gws@redbird.net), November 05, 2001.

could also wrap the edges with old garden hose, split down the middle,, just alittle added protection from cutting themselves on the rusty metal

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), November 05, 2001.

Stan, thought of that, but you'd need to anchor it pretty good - maybe a whole row of little holes, and sew it on with wire. Almost more trouble than it's worth - use an angle grinder to cut and then dress the edges with a bastard file ought to be good enough, unless they're making drums a lot thinner than they used to. Of course, Lisa may have meant a plastic drum, in which case we may not have a problem - again, unless the drum material is thinner than we're thinking of, in which case I'd think timber as reinforcement for the edges, or steel strap/rod if the horses wanted to chew the timber.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), November 05, 2001.