Chicken feeder base for 4-inch schedule 80 PVC by wurtzmr

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

After finding a base for a chicken feeder on Thingiverse that was very flimsy, I decided to redesign. This base is meant to hold 4-inch, sched 80 PVC pipe. I cut the bottom off of a spackle bucket and used the newly formed "tray" to mount this hopper base. I then screwed all pieces together using 1.5" outdoor screws; hopper base to tray (on a block of 2x6 to capture screw tips and elevate the tray) and PVC to hopper base. It holds about 8 elbeez of food. I pre-drilled the sides of the hopper base and PVC pipe to prevent cracking (since no holes were designed into the sides of this base).
This part is half of the base, so print 2. If your bed is bigger than mine... well..... congratulations. You can print two of these at once...or maybe even join them together in your own 3D modeling program and print it as it was originally designed.