Fixing a wooden feeder

Earlier this week I fixed the large wooden cattle feeder.  Again.   The feeder does hold up well but this Spring the cattle were hard on it.

Initially I had to segregate, from the cows, Buddy in the main corral and feed him from this feeder while Big Red and Buster were in the south corral.  Often Buddy would reach across the feeder to eat hay from the opposite side.  With no cattle pushing from the opposite side Buddy put a "lean" into the feeder.  After I put Buddy in the south corral and let the cows back in to occasionally eat from the wooden feeder they further "rocked the lean".

So Monday evening I took time to fix and rebuild the feeder before the cows pushed it completely over.