What type of Feeders do yall run?

I don’t use feeders, but I’m familiar with feeders and have filled quite a few over the years when helping friends on their leases. Most run a few gravity and a few spinners. My personal observations are that gravity feeders get hit more during the night than spinners that feed after sunrise and before sunset. I’ve also seen gravity feeders get a little “caked” from heavy blowing rains at the dump points.
BTW you can attract bears to systematically hit your feeders and actually destroy them depending on the setup.
Have fun with them whatever you choose.

Definitely have to bear proof your feeders in most of Florida. I think a metal drum with a funnel and the moultrie spinners are best bang for buck. That said, I was gifted two Texas Hunter hanging feeders that are by far the best I’ve ever used. They replaced one of the timers for me that was still working but the LED was unreadable. For free. Even though I was not the original purchaser, and they are at least 10 years old. If I needed more feeders I’d probably bite the bullet and buy once, cry once, just for the quality of construction, longevity, and customer service.

Scuff sand the top of the lids and spray them heavy. Anything helps, even if it’s just leftover rattle can paint, that’s the first thing that will rust out.
Even 55 gal drums are not what they used to be.

I have had zero issues since I switched to Castaways 4 or 5 years ago.
They are a bit pricey , but the reliability has been fantastic.
I got sick and tired of dealing with all the others eventually turning into large drums of sour mash during the humid summer months.
Not to mention the varmit damage and the cheap crappy motors that never lasted too long.
Their customer service is outstanding as well.

I have a drum on a high tripod with a programmable spinner


We don’t have bears but goodness the frickin squirrels and coons will destroy a feeder (the food and the equipment)
I grease  the legs every couple months with petroleum jelly and that works.

Looks good! Now put one on the ground.

Good luck JS, I also will be in a tree this weekend. I’ve only gotten out a couple times so far, and last Saturday I could have had a heat stroke. It’s just not that much fun when it’s that hot.

I ran and watched feeder for about twenty years. Amazing at first......like sitting at a Zoo Movie. All the Critters. 
I was never compfortable "Taking" deer at or near a feeder and certifiably let many walk....handful of unused doe tags.

Tripod base feeder. Ran for a year and a half....then busted by a growing bear population within a conservation corridor. I cheered the Bears on!

Other feeders Busted. Eventually,I ran a cable between two pine trees, cool ratchet set up, feeder bin hangs between pines at nine feet high. 
It was a $100 Feeder motor set up. 
I abandoned the entire private lease feeder setup recently.

I have a private acreage property within a WMA however there will not be a feeder on the place.

My friends Dad..now passed had some guys from a little 90 acre piece of property that went over and knocked on his door one morning and told him to get them damm cows off their land because they were messing up his feeder.
Next time they came up from Tampa they had no camp.
He burned them out 3 times.
He was a retired Game Warden old school , Pot smuggling redneck.