ccreyeder
New Member
Hey ya'll!
New guy here and have a question about hog roll barrels... How are you keeping your chain from wrapping around the T-post and binding up?
Here is my set up: I have a t-post driven into the ground, chain is looped around t-post...
end of chain -->quick link-->swivel-->quick link-->hard point attachment on barrel....
The problem I am running into is that the hogs will push the barrel closer to the T-post (ie inside the radius of the chain) and so then, instead of pivoting around the post, the chain just wraps around the post, getting shorter and shorter, until the barrel is cinched up tight against the post....
My first version I used a 55 gal metal barrel and the hogs cinched it up so tight against the post that they ended up opening up the eyebolt attached to the barrel and barrel came free and was never seen again...
Next, got a 15 gal soda syrup barrel.... it is holding up much better than the metal one, but the hogs are still wrapping the chain around the post and cinching the barrel up next to the post..
I tried putting a PVC "collar" around the post with the chain attached to it... no good, same results...
Any other ideas/thoughts? I had an idea of maybe slipping a length of PVC over the chain and seeing if that would work...
Sorry for such a long winded first post, but cant think of a easier way to describe my set up...
Thanks for the help!
New guy here and have a question about hog roll barrels... How are you keeping your chain from wrapping around the T-post and binding up?
Here is my set up: I have a t-post driven into the ground, chain is looped around t-post...
end of chain -->quick link-->swivel-->quick link-->hard point attachment on barrel....
The problem I am running into is that the hogs will push the barrel closer to the T-post (ie inside the radius of the chain) and so then, instead of pivoting around the post, the chain just wraps around the post, getting shorter and shorter, until the barrel is cinched up tight against the post....
My first version I used a 55 gal metal barrel and the hogs cinched it up so tight against the post that they ended up opening up the eyebolt attached to the barrel and barrel came free and was never seen again...
Next, got a 15 gal soda syrup barrel.... it is holding up much better than the metal one, but the hogs are still wrapping the chain around the post and cinching the barrel up next to the post..
I tried putting a PVC "collar" around the post with the chain attached to it... no good, same results...
Any other ideas/thoughts? I had an idea of maybe slipping a length of PVC over the chain and seeing if that would work...
Sorry for such a long winded first post, but cant think of a easier way to describe my set up...
Thanks for the help!