Repurposing a clothes line would be 100% more efficient. In your defense you where part of the way there with the gondola rope. But a clothes line would be 100% more efficient, you can push, or pull the box where needed without needing to pull a rope from side to side manually!!!
My next concern is the water quality... you have rotting meat and fluids leaking into the water with nothing to really clean the water source I'm concerned the pound will become a cesspool. I mean there is a real threat of waste contamination from decaying, rotting animals and insects continually dropping for only 4 fish. There is no way that 4 fish are cleaning that water source. Possibly adding catfish or carp that are filter fish bottom feeders would help with future upkeep?
My grandfather told me to hang a rope across the pond with an LED lightbulb hanging from the center and 2 plexiglass baffles. The insects see the light and drop into the water when they fly into the baffles. Also, check out the bojo fish light. I bought one for my father in law.
Do they have the lights that come with the stank? You taking all the fun out of it! I mean what are you supposed to do with that huge pile of road kill you been saving up?
I would've done it like a clothesline: a loop secured by pulleys on both trees. Then the box doesn't need to slide on a tube. It could be knotted to the clothes line directly. But this seems to work. There's so much good design presented in this video!
My thoughts as well. It would eliminate the need for that third rope and having two people pull it in the opposite direction. Plus the friction would be insignificant and the rope would last a long time. BTW, is the maggot feeder still in use?
Go Woodbeard, we're watching all videos all the way through because I think I know how much work is put into delivering this to us. And thank you again! And I also want you to know that I think you and Jeremy make an awesome team.
I love listening to Chris ramble on and on. The ingenuity and everything else is just a great bonus. Thanks for all you do. Good luck with the Canadian government. America isn't all that great either. I'll be watching your videos no matter what. Also, I'm trying to convince the fiance to let me get some Woodobo.
I first wondered why you'd put a cadaver above the pond until I realized that there will be a lot of flies and their offspring ready to be eaten by the fish. This is genius. I love it and I would do something similar if I ever have the chance to do something this exciting!
I suggest you put a plate on top of the wire mesh so that the smaller maggots do not fall straight into the water. Leave space all around so that the pre-pupae will fall when they start crawling for dry ground to burrow. That way you will have optimal fat maggots
feel like ive been waiting a year and a half for this video. not a bad little system you got and its all free fish food....definitely way more nutritious than pretty much any feed you could buy too
i would use a come along for the line across too get better tension and pullies and rope fore the retraction that way you can put more weight on it, as for reducing smells maybe put some gasket around the lid and some acrylic glass that extends to the water on all four sides.
You can put bowstring wax or regular candle wax on the main rope to help it last longer. It will also make it slide smoother and probably protect it from the friction.
I think you were better off with the bucket, I think that chicken wire is going to let a lot of the fish fall through as it breaks down. The wider dimensions of the box also make it more prone to tipping. Put a PVC pipe on opposite sides and hang it from 2 ropes, this will keep it from tipping, put less stress on the rope, and prevent the thing from falling in the water if one rope fails.
If you re-build then two pulleys would of course be great so you can bring it in or out from one spot. You would also eliminate the tube and potential for eventually cutting through the rope. But, if you only do a minor revision, heat the tube ends up and flare them
It's also a good way just make the ropes a little longer so your gondola goes to the bottom and drags the mud and other debris out but you can dig your pond deeper everyday you could pull a scoop through let things settle drag it again and then move your beginning or end area a foot in either direction and do it again old-school dredging
Man dude you should count it and enter it into the Guinness book of world records but I think you said maggots more than anybody on the planet LOL love your guys' show
Man awesome!! Trout love maggots in the uk we catch lots on them! Your trout are most likely eating most of them as they fall through the water You should get a few catfish to compete with the trout on the bottom If you put it a bit higher up they’d splash more on the surface probably stimulate more surface feeding In the uk it was a old traditional method to just hang a rabbit high in a tree over the river. Writhing a few days hundreds of fish waiting there very easy to catch. Just two maggots on the hook dropped under the feeder bam every cast!
A friend of my dads used some old 50 gallon barrels he got along with some pallets to make a little raft. He used to use that to throw out roadkill for a similar setup to this. I was thinking if you got an opaque colored tub that was the same size as whatever raft you build you could keep it in the shade and covered to keep things going. If you built the raft to keep the pallet real close to the water you might be able to avoid some of the smell as well, though obviously you need some space for the flies to get in. Just throwing some different ideas not, not sure how well they would actually work though.
Great idea! Just a suggestion: If you put 2 pulleys on the trees and loop the rope you can just pull any amount of weight easily from one side or the cable with a zipline harness on it. Great for keeping your bait fish healthy i bet.
I’m only 16 minutes in . But why not . Make the line that you’re pulling with , 1 big line that loops , and put a pulley with a crank handle on both ends . So you can just crank it one direction or the other without another person having to help you ? Sorry just a suggestion . Love the videos !
I had no idea about tying around trees! Then again if I've ever done it it's been temporary so I haven't seen the potential damage that would cause over time.
Scent free setup: 5 gallon bucket with lid. “T” fitting on lid leading down to bucket, drill holes on bottom of bucket. Add 3 or so inches of wood shavings add rotting protein over wood shavings and hang over pond or field for chickens. When the maggots start forming the will start trickling out of the bottom holes, but the wood shavings will block the scent and the t fitting will allow flies to lay eggs
I met a guy at work who told me years ago he made one out of a five-gallon bucket for his chickens. He told me he stuffed the top of the bucket over the roadkill with hay. I assume timothy or alfalfa. He said the hay kept the smell down. I've never made one for my birds, but now I think I'll have to give it a go.
for sure there is a steam nearby you can use that to provide permanent clear water in your fishpond..just use a long hose install it from the steam all the way down to your pond
A cumalong or chain binder would take care of the slack. And like the others said clothes line like pulleys. But I'd step it up with 2x4s the same width of the box and 2 sets of pulleys on the ends. Also pulleys on top of box to hang on top rope with bottom rope going to bottom of box. That's 4 pulleys on box and 4 on 2x4s. Then you can load it full. If you use a cumalong for slack it could also set box on ground when loading. This might be overkill though.
Great proof of concept! I mentioned in Kevin's channel, when he asked about other projects, to put in a cabled zip line to send materials back and forth to the site. This was when the pathways was super muddy. You basically did exactly that. Gondola/Zip line, same idea. Great video! Full stop
*Complete NEW FISH POND PLAYLIST:* ua-cam.com/play/PLDg2Qmw9pKidyb4i41XtKUhop40BUcL8_.html
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You should keep a breeder pig
WHAT TO HECK KINDA FLY GOING TO DELVOPE FROM THAT THING.🤯😮
Repurposing a clothes line would be 100% more efficient. In your defense you where part of the way there with the gondola rope. But a clothes line would be 100% more efficient, you can push, or pull the box where needed without needing to pull a rope from side to side manually!!!
My next concern is the water quality... you have rotting meat and fluids leaking into the water with nothing to really clean the water source I'm concerned the pound will become a cesspool. I mean there is a real threat of waste contamination from decaying, rotting animals and insects continually dropping for only 4 fish. There is no way that 4 fish are cleaning that water source. Possibly adding catfish or carp that are filter fish bottom feeders would help with future upkeep?
Never thought I would be looking at a “maggot feeder” on UA-cam but here I am and it was pretty sick
My grandfather told me to hang a rope across the pond with an LED lightbulb hanging from the center and 2 plexiglass baffles. The insects see the light and drop into the water when they fly into the baffles. Also, check out the bojo fish light. I bought one for my father in law.
Smart tactic.
He did it bro he took your advice😂
I was going to suspend a light over a fan to blow the bugs into the water. Your "baffle" idea is much better as it is almost completely passive.
Do they have the lights that come with the stank? You taking all the fun out of it! I mean what are you supposed to do with that huge pile of road kill you been saving up?
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Full Stop. And my wife said not to do this ever again, the chicken run smelled horrible for weeks. LOL
You lost me when you said your wife said something. She evidently don't cook and clean. It's your fault, weak men.
Use black soldier flies larva
I would've done it like a clothesline: a loop secured by pulleys on both trees. Then the box doesn't need to slide on a tube. It could be knotted to the clothes line directly. But this seems to work. There's so much good design presented in this video!
My thoughts as well. It would eliminate the need for that third rope and having two people pull it in the opposite direction. Plus the friction would be insignificant and the rope would last a long time.
BTW, is the maggot feeder still in use?
OMG I FINALLY FOUND THIS CHANNEL BACK I watch the the episodes some years back I’m so happy I found this back
Honestly, these videos are really great to relax to on fridays
What a brother Kevin is, he used like $800 in lumber to make that box for you lol. Tell him to make sure and write it off on his taxes.
Damn dude, that's quite the compound you have going there!
Go Woodbeard, we're watching all videos all the way through because I think I know how much work is put into delivering this to us. And thank you again! And I also want you to know that I think you and Jeremy make an awesome team.
Those flies were crazy fullstop. 😊👍
Your channel brings me so much joy
Morning coffee & my favorite YT channel with a beard! All is right in the world.
"It rained and the water is chocolate brown..." man what kinda chocolate you eating!? 😂
:)
homemade bush chocolate
Canadian bush milk chocolate
I think you need to add in some minnows it'll be fun to see the trout's going after the minnows as they eat the maggots.
The progeny of flies. Somebody should name their band that
Full stop. And if I had a pond I would do this. Such a good idea.
I love listening to Chris ramble on and on. The ingenuity and everything else is just a great bonus.
Thanks for all you do. Good luck with the Canadian government. America isn't all that great either.
I'll be watching your videos no matter what. Also, I'm trying to convince the fiance to let me get some Woodobo.
Yes! I was waiting exactly for this. Love the feed/biomass conversion videos
It would be awesome to see you tinkering with making fish protein entirely from vegetable waste. With beetles or worms or cockroaches.
This was awesome. full stop. love the underwater footage
This is like an IRL Minecraft automation feeder how to tutorial, thanks UA-cam algorithm, 10/10
UNDERWATER fish footage is always amazing !!
The best homemade backyard maggot feeder on UA-cam full stop
I first wondered why you'd put a cadaver above the pond until I realized that there will be a lot of flies and their offspring ready to be eaten by the fish. This is genius. I love it and I would do something similar if I ever have the chance to do something this exciting!
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Awesome man
I need to do this
Great dry heave 😂
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hi Chris, that was pretty smart thing to do!! be safe, thank you, bill
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I suggest you put a plate on top of the wire mesh so that the smaller maggots do not fall straight into the water. Leave space all around so that the pre-pupae will fall when they start crawling for dry ground to burrow. That way you will have optimal fat maggots
That would help a bit. I put a cam underwater, and let it run for 2 hours...some pretty good sized ones dropping at a regular rate!
I'm going to be 100% honest, I was skeptical, but holy crap man, this works awesomely! Smart work.
the maggot video i’ve been waiting for 😂
Full stop, these feeders looked awesome‼️‼️
Grass idea for fishing management in pond 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🐛🐛
Full stop, no other way to do it. Idk what it is but these are my favorite videos you post. Something oddly satisfying about the maggot traps 🤣
Wow Babe in the Bearded City
I would have went with 2 pullies, so you can operate from one side.
Close line pulleys, one longer rope and double the strength.
Full stop,glad your doing more maggot work. Been using feeders fourty plus years. Brookies seem to really fatten up for the fall spawn.
Full Stop friend. I love the channel and the content. And the family. Great people.
Some Little Rascals stuff going on here👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
feel like ive been waiting a year and a half for this video. not a bad little system you got and its all free fish food....definitely way more nutritious than pretty much any feed you could buy too
Gonna have some big old frogs too! Frog legs are delicious, go good with trout.
I wish I had 1 percent of this mans DIY acumen
i would use a come along for the line across too get better tension and pullies and rope fore the retraction that way you can put more weight on it, as for reducing smells maybe put some gasket around the lid and some acrylic glass that extends to the water on all four sides.
You can put bowstring wax or regular candle wax on the main rope to help it last longer. It will also make it slide smoother and probably protect it from the friction.
That's a pretty cool feeder setup, full stop!
Full stop! Awesome contraption.
Great job man! Awesome video too! Time to add some more fish. Full stop
Big love from Dubai
Full stop. Very cool maggot feeder!
Nice one keep it up beardsman🔥🔥
You should make a trapp to catch the flyes and send them in the water.
use a trucker's hitch to easily adjust the line! it also gives ya a pulley advantage
I hope Kevin is getting paid for this. You are one demanding man! hehe.
How you doing Kevin?
Great video as always maggots remind me of rice I can’t do it LOL 😂
I think you were better off with the bucket, I think that chicken wire is going to let a lot of the fish fall through as it breaks down. The wider dimensions of the box also make it more prone to tipping. Put a PVC pipe on opposite sides and hang it from 2 ropes, this will keep it from tipping, put less stress on the rope, and prevent the thing from falling in the water if one rope fails.
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙏
The trout are truly enjoying the maggots.
If you re-build then two pulleys would of course be great so you can bring it in or out from one spot. You would also eliminate the tube and potential for eventually cutting through the rope.
But, if you only do a minor revision, heat the tube ends up and flare them
Full stop . Great job, super cool.
Good job Yankee
Full stop Chris! ❤️ stay safe and be well
Full stop.
Great great episode Chris.. much better feeder than before.. hopefully you will get nice fat fish..
It's also a good way just make the ropes a little longer so your gondola goes to the bottom and drags the mud and other debris out but you can dig your pond deeper everyday you could pull a scoop through let things settle drag it again and then move your beginning or end area a foot in either direction and do it again old-school dredging
With how the mesh on the bottom is you could use a tarp and completly seal off the top.
Glad to have come across your channel!
Man dude you should count it and enter it into the Guinness book of world records but I think you said maggots more than anybody on the planet LOL love your guys' show
Great video. Full stop!
Man awesome!! Trout love maggots in the uk we catch lots on them! Your trout are most likely eating most of them as they fall through the water
You should get a few catfish to compete with the trout on the bottom
If you put it a bit higher up they’d splash more on the surface probably stimulate more surface feeding
In the uk it was a old traditional method to just hang a rabbit high in a tree over the river. Writhing a few days hundreds of fish waiting there very easy to catch. Just two maggots on the hook dropped under the feeder bam every cast!
With tadpoles you are getting ready for frog legs too .
A friend of my dads used some old 50 gallon barrels he got along with some pallets to make a little raft. He used to use that to throw out roadkill for a similar setup to this. I was thinking if you got an opaque colored tub that was the same size as whatever raft you build you could keep it in the shade and covered to keep things going. If you built the raft to keep the pallet real close to the water you might be able to avoid some of the smell as well, though obviously you need some space for the flies to get in. Just throwing some different ideas not, not sure how well they would actually work though.
Full Stop! Nice job on the feeder.
It’s always fascinating to watch your videos. Loved it.
Best maggot feeder video I’ve seen! Actually I’ve never heard of this till now
If it helps, you could also use a clothesline with the pulleys. Just an other idea. Love your videos!
Imagine being a trout and watching some crazy dude with a beard hang a gondola full of rotting carp over you to feed you maggots. Priceless.
Great idea! Just a suggestion: If you put 2 pulleys on the trees and loop the rope you can just pull any amount of weight easily from one side or the cable with a zipline harness on it. Great for keeping your bait fish healthy i bet.
Full stop. Good DIY 👍
I’m only 16 minutes in . But why not . Make the line that you’re pulling with , 1 big line that loops , and put a pulley with a crank handle on both ends .
So you can just crank it one direction or the other without another person having to help you ?
Sorry just a suggestion . Love the videos !
That is a great idea!!! Love the vids man👍👍👍
good job my friend thank you for sharing video
Life is so beautiful there sir, great sharing always !
Full Stop, great video as always!
I had no idea about tying around trees! Then again if I've ever done it it's been temporary so I haven't seen the potential damage that would cause over time.
I like the pen you built for the Kanadian kops.
I don’t have a pond or anything near it.. But this is epic! One day, I will build my own maggot feeder for my backyard pond (future pond)
This is awesome my dude
Scent free setup: 5 gallon bucket with lid. “T” fitting on lid leading down to bucket, drill holes on bottom of bucket. Add 3 or so inches of wood shavings add rotting protein over wood shavings and hang over pond or field for chickens. When the maggots start forming the will start trickling out of the bottom holes, but the wood shavings will block the scent and the t fitting will allow flies to lay eggs
I met a guy at work who told me years ago he made one out of a five-gallon bucket for his chickens. He told me he stuffed the top of the bucket over the roadkill with hay. I assume timothy or alfalfa. He said the hay kept the smell down. I've never made one for my birds, but now I think I'll have to give it a go.
Ingenious Sir
Good times right there!
pond looking great, awesome feeder :)
20:05 could also just double the line up
Full stop. Great video!
I did that years ago. Works very well.
for sure there is a steam nearby you can use that to provide permanent clear water in your fishpond..just use a long hose install it from the steam all the way down to your pond
A cumalong or chain binder would take care of the slack. And like the others said clothes line like pulleys. But I'd step it up with 2x4s the same width of the box and 2 sets of pulleys on the ends. Also pulleys on top of box to hang on top rope with bottom rope going to bottom of box. That's 4 pulleys on box and 4 on 2x4s. Then you can load it full. If you use a cumalong for slack it could also set box on ground when loading.
This might be overkill though.
I like that idea! I just need to scale up the pond to more fish to make it worthwhile!
U need to build it so the magots roll off into a space they can lay an dehydrate for future feedings as well as feeding in real time
I was having a boring day till I had this notification
Locking good gondola 😊😊😊😊love from India good udobo Spice
Full stop! Greetings from across the pond. ;)
Great proof of concept! I mentioned in Kevin's channel, when he asked about other projects, to put in a cabled zip line to send materials back and forth to the site. This was when the pathways was super muddy. You basically did exactly that. Gondola/Zip line, same idea. Great video! Full stop
Dude that underwater maggot scene with the camera going above the maggot feeder and that "No Exit" sign almost looked like out of a horror movie :D