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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show, Netton. Are you an ac DC fan?
Am I a what ac DC fan? Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Don't particularly care for it, but I'll listen to it.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
How about AC Delco?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, so that'll work all right.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So the idea behind this cannon feeder is that the
number one, if you had to say, the number one
selling point is zero maintenance or zero work because of
the size and kind of self executing nature of it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, Sir Michael, this feeder shoots two pounds of corn
every time it shoots.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, Now, explain this to me, like I'm six years old.
How does it gather a packet of corn to send
it out? What's the mechanism inside that's gathering that amount
of corn.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's strictly gravity fed. Then my hopper in the feeder
goes to the all the way to the front, so
it's gravity fed. Every time it goes off, it fills
the barrel back up. I have a two by three
barrel in this on this theater. And when I say barrel,
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it is a it's just like a potato gun. Every
time it shoots, two pounds of corn goes back into
the barrel and it's ready to shoot again.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now, Here's what I don't understand. Okay, the barrel extends
out of the.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Box, yes, sir, nineteen inches.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You're not filling up the barrel outside the box, no, sure,
only inside, yes, all right. And then it creates a seal,
and then that's with that seal, and the compression is
shooting it out, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
At the end of the barrel, there is a inch
and a half annoyeds valve that's connected to an air tank,
a two gallon air tank. So the compressor fills the
air tank up within old about fifty eight seconds. It'll
fill it up to eighty five to ninety pounds. As
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soon as it does, it activates the soellinoid valve industrial
solinoid valve, and it fires, and when it fires, it
shoots the corn out anywhere from forty to fifty yards
at eighty to ninety pounds. You can turn this feeder
up higher. I don't recommend it just for safety reasons. Michael,
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are you Are you familiar with what a potato gun
could do?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Is that the reason why.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I put all three of my boys in front of
the cannon feeder and shot it, and it didn't hurt
any any one of them.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So did you have to talk them into that or
did they did? They willingly agree because I mean what if.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They had whether dad does and two? Okay, but no,
it will not hurt you. Now, if you're looking down
the barrel and it goes off, it would it would
probably pay for you pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Do you have a particular brand of corn you use?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No? Sure, no, sure, But you can fill this feeder
up with six hundred and fifty pounds of corn, shoot
two pounds a day or four pounds a day, two feedings,
one in the morning, one in the afternoon. It will
last you approximately one hundred and sixty three days.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Approximately one hundred and sixty three days, Yes, sir, that's
very specific, then't.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So so you've got to go out twice a year
and refill this thing, that's correct. So will you go
back out twice a year you refilling the corn? And
then you're what else the solar panel? Like, what other
do we have it?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We have a twenty watt solar panel on it. Yeah,
we have a charger control, solar charger control for our
battery to maintain it correctly, just not hooking up a
solar panel to a battery like most feeders do. We
have a solar charger control so it's not overcharging or
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under charge. It's just a straight twelve volt battery eighteen
half hours. What I use. It's the simplest feeder on
the market. You set your timer for one second. All
your timer is doing when it comes on, it's shooting
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seven o'clock in the morning. You said it for one second.
It tells the compressor to come on. The compressor fills
the air tank up to wherever you have to found
it set at.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How broad is the area that the corn is being
dispensed across?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, it'll shoot it out anywhere from forty to fifty
yards sixty foot area.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How come you use yards for the distance it shoots it,
but foot for the distance of cover?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Just did We were with Duck Dynasty and Austin Buck
Commanders in Austin, Texas and we were shooting it in
a parking lot and we had to take measure that
we were measuring it with. That's just what we came
up with. Well, it is a great aquatic.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Feed But when you measured the distance that shot the
corn and you look down, what did it measure the distance.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
At the in between east kernel.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
No, the distance from where from the barrel to where
it landed like a shot.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Put about fifty yards.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So it measured it in yards. Okay. And then when
you measure where the first corn hit and where the
furthest corn had gone, what did it measure there?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We didn't. We didn't measure that. But you said measure that.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You said that was about twenty feet or twenty foot? No,
because that would be the spread right right.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The spread is sixty feet in the distance is forty
to fifty yards.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
How many did you have on your property?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh? One, two, three, four right now?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
How many do you have in the road? Yeah? How
many you have in warehouse right now?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh? We got some probably fifteen. We have ten more
being built. We're going to McAllen to a show in
mac Allen in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Who is we?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Uh? My wife and I and Luke Leisner my cousin.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
What is.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Linda? All right?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Can you hold with me for just a minute?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You bet?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Hold on? Do you have questions for mom?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Michael? Are you are you familiar with what a potato
gun could do? You know?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
No offense to Hannity or even rush my friend Mark Levin,
Michael Savage. How many people have that question asked of that?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Michael? Are you are you familiar with what a potato
gun could do? Not?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Everybody gets asked that question every day on radio Denton
Liistner is our guest Denton. What happens is if you
get fifty orders cannon feeders today.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We have a manufacturer there in Houston, mister Sheep Metal,
that has has them ready to go. All he has
tod All you do is all we have to do
is call them and they'll sto putting them together and
deliver them here. We put the assemble them here and
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finish them off here in Bay City and they're ready.
We can do about ten to fifteen a day.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh well that's good.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
How much can you make? How much can you make
on one unit?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well, now our.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
People don't mind. They want you to make a profit.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm gonna be making around five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
A unit, Okay, So it could end up being. It's
kind of deal that if you could, if you could,
and if you could get some sales going and get
a distributor and get somebody to carry this thing. Is
anybody carrying is a reach. Is any retail outlet carrying
it now?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Most are not at all. We're we're just a mom
in Popville. It's my wife and Linda and my cousin
Luke and Hugh's Dallas fort Worth. He kind of handles
the sales for me and my three boys. And I've
put it together here as symbol all the components ourselves.
(09:26):
M it's just the mom and pop deal. We want
to start, uh, you know, start off slow and uh
just keep growing. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
There's a there's a company on the on I ten
right after you, right after you get out of town,
before Brookshire, and it's something like Old Housings or meal
Housings or field Housings or something.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But they're very good. It's like a feed store and
they have a lot of outdoor stuff. But they're very
good at letting people. I don't know if it's a
consignment system or how they do it, but they're very
good at letting people put their deals there. I went
to a shot show two years ago and discovered this
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deer stand that looks like a stump, looks like a tree,
and you get in it and it's perfectly sealed. It's
got good gaskets on it, and it's a plastic material,
but it's insulated, so you can get in there and
you could put a you know, probably your own body
heat would would be enough unless it was really cold.
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But it has these little windows that operate and the
real precision machine and you can open the window. You
know a lot of these feeders, a lot of these
deer stands. You open the window and you can scare
everything off. So you have to keep it open, which
means you have to keep it so quiet. And I
don't know if you could pull it off. I'd have
to have homes or one of my deer hunting buddies
tell me if you could pull us off. But it's
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so quiet to open that window. And I thought, I
was so impressed with it, But so I asked them
who carried it, and we came back and the only
people in it's a Sanatone company that makes it. But
they said the only people that carried it was this
place on uh On. I I was just thinking, if
you could get somebody to put it out where people
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could see it right right.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Uh We we've been showing them at the uh Texas
Trophy Extra Hunting extravagance in Houston, Fort Worth, San Antone.
We uh Dallas Support Club. We've made that and had
a great reception in both of them. We're going to MacAllen.
We'll be headed to uh uh New Orleans to the
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uh q m A uh Texas or Quality Management and
their Association. I believe uh we'll be making that. Doctor
Kroll uh has has got us arranged with that, which
is been real well, uh we just had We've had
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great reception everywhere we went.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But are they buying it? Are they buying it? Then?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, we're just we Michael, We're changed. We're
trying to change a whole industry. This is the newest
theater out there. It's it's it's it's been spinners spinner
spinners since the nineteen fifty and like, well, it's it's great.
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But you gotta hang them high. You gotta mudhole and
you gotta then you got to do that. You gotta
walk through, you gotta climb up, or you gotta mindsets
on the ground. I have a skid.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, I like to set it up you know right there,
you know, right above you those spinners. I mean it's worked,
but maybe this is.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Better well, you gotta see this, so I gotta I
gotta get you on.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, let me ask you that.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Let me tell you this. The deer you are not
feeding around a feeder. You can hide this feeder. You
can set it off the right away, Michael, and shoot
it back down you right away. Your deer will come
to this feeder a lot better because they're not around
they're not around a feeder. If you need to, you
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can shoot it into the pin a feed pin if
you need to.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Now, that's an interesting concept.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
If they're not underneath that feeder, they're not scared of it.
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I wonder about the applications outside of hunting. Shooting into
a pin is an interesting concept for people that are
that are pen raising animals. You said you you were
talking about putting it on a lake or a pond.
Ramon was wondering, and I don't know if you've tried
this yet. If you can set it up and fill
it full of peanuts like during football at the house
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and shoot peanuts out, have you tried that any.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We have one man that bought our feeder.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Hold on, let me ask you so much, Michael.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Are you are you familiar with what a potato gun
could do.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Could we put peanuts in it?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You could put peanuts in it. You can put anything
in it. Just grab, he said. And for your response
about what a potato gun can do, Uh, it's it's
not shooting a mask like a piece of potato is
not coming out of there with that greater force. Uh.
(14:38):
The compressor comes on, it gives you full warning what's
fixed to happen. I know what corn can do coming
out of the spinner feeder. If you're sitting there looking
at the spinner feeder, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Not gonna put my kids in front of it and
test whether it works or not.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No, I know what a weed eater or do if
you hit it, hit your toe with.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
This, yeah, and then you're always You remember when the
weed eaters first came out, and you spent more time
refeeding the line than you did actually cut. It was
easier to just get down with your hands and pluck
the monkey grass than it was to use the the
weed eater. And it was that orange string and you'd
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have to keep threading it through that the whole time,
and then firing that thing up. That was an art
to getting that thing fired up. Am I right? I
heard that because it would flood. Didn't Hold on just
a minute. I feel like you're trying to sell me
on it. You're not trying to sell me on it, right, No, okay,
hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Michael, Are you are you familiar with what a potato
gun could do?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The Michael Berry Show continues.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Are you are you familiar with what a potato gun
could do?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Didn't do you just really like potato guns?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Uh? No, sir, not at all. Did you use the
same concept as a potato gun.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
It's the last time you shot a potato gun?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh lord, I couldn't tell you that.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Do you think you have more recently shot a potato
gun or got a straight razor shave?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Probably shot a potato gun, because that was back in
seventy six. I got a straight razor.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I think you're overdue. Is that you in the picture
with the white beard? Yes, sir, Oh you'd love a
straight razor shave at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't no longer have a beard that was just
for go hunting out in West Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, you need that.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So now, this this feeder, when you see it and
see the concept and how it works, it sells itself.
It sells itself. People. It weighs two ten.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Empty and you can put it in the back of
a truck. What are the what are the specs? What
is the.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Elect fifty six inches wide where it sets in your
truck and it's around fifty fifty four inches tall? Okay,
but the the feeder sells itself. I don't have to
sell the feeder when people see it at these shows,
and uh, when we introduce it, the people they just
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say it it's so simple. Why why hadn't I thought
of that? And uh, it's like I said, it sells itself.
I don't have to sell it. It sells itself. Now
it's an investment. It's sixteen hundred dollars. But you're how
much was the deer blind that you said you liked?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
More thousand more than that, so you.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Invest it's an investment.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, if I told you what I've spent on night
vision scopes, if I told you what I've been spent
on night vision binoculars, I told you what I've spent
on night lights around the feeder, if I told you
what I spent on John Deere gators, then no.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
But here here's the deal, Michael, you go out and
you spend three four thousand, five thousand dollars on a
deer lease, You buy you an ATV for eleven thousand,
You buy you a camper to stay in it's for
another twenty five thirty thousand dollars, and you buy you
a deer blind that costs five thousand dollars. Why wouldn't
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you want a deer feeder that worked consistently, sits on
the ground, easy to fill, reliable, has a two year
warranty on it. No tunes, no hogs, no rain can
bother it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I don't feel like it's selling itself right now.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I mean it's so easy.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
How far off the ground does it sit.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Without the skid? We offer a skid that you can
put it on. It says with the skid it's around
sixty four inches tall.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
No, no, But without the skid it literally sits on
the ground right, there's no legs.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It sits off the ground around twelve inches with the legs. Now,
we have a feeder that we I'll be taking up
to Houston this week to the manufacturer. He will be
mounting one on a trailer. How many have you ever
seen that can sit on a trailer that can be mobile.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You mean you can pull it around on a four wheeler.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes, sir, o our truck. This feeder here, you can
sit underneath your deer blind and it will put corn
out in front of your deer feeder. I mean you're
sitting area your deer blind.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You mean it was shoot it over your head?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It little shoot you straight out in front of you.
It's a great bow blind.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Boat feeder for hunting.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
When I go out to Chapel Hill or Brenham or
Carmeene or round Top, I go two ninety out of
Houston right, and as I'm headed out, I go around
this curve. I guess it's probably somewhere when I'm in
Waller County, And on the right is a place kind
of sat back. It's just a warehouse and a bunch
of feeder's called Ultimatic or something like that. Are you
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familiar with them?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Are they any good?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All the theaters are good. Your spinners though, well, I
quit using the spinner when I invented this.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Do you have a patent on this?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
If you don't, you need If you don't, I know
some good intellectual property lawyers, because I would really like
to see you do well off this, do you know?
The guy that made the uh super soaker was No,
it's it's the deal that you you you fill it
full of water and you pool and then you know,
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you can run around shooting each other. I saw an
Inventor's program on him. He was a black guy that
worked at a at a company like Mattel or I
can't remember where he were, but he took the super soaker. No,
he didn't work at montel He worked at let's just
say whatever, and I think he had an engineering degree.
Really smart guy, and he had this prototype that did
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not look very attractive. But the point was it was
a very very simple, like yours, very simple technology that
nobody thought of and was not it wasn't so easy
to replicate. And he took it to Mattel or Hasbro
or one of those companies, and they turned him down,
and he came back, and he came back, and then
finally somebody took a chance on it. Nobody believed it
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would take off, and it did, and he's made the
product has sold hundreds of millions, and he's made say,
fifty million dollars off of this very simple technology that's
you know, nothing advanced, and I guess technically anybody could
make one because his first one he used just household products.
But I don't think the fact that it's simple makes
it any less marketable or profitable. H ross Bro used
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to say the entrepreneur he most admired, or the inventor
he most admired, was a guy who came up with
the twist tie. You remember the green twist tie, because
he said, literally, anybody could have come up with that,
and that guy became a billionaire off of something that
every one of us should have been able to. But
it's also scalable everybody. I mean, it's scalable, and it's uh,
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it has virality. Everybody needs one. But I don't know
that everybody needs or affords what you have, But I
think there's a lot of people that would well.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Like you said, the concept is simple. Uh, it's very reliable,
which is very reliable. It shoots that their slice amount
of corn, whereas your spinner feeder you unless you catch
it in a bucket and weigh it, you had no
idea what what you're.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Putting out, what if you were to put out could
put in there? You know, this warfare and based product you.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Could put out and like I said, I have one
guy that's feeding that acrons. You can put protein in this.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, you didn't tell me, it's not it's not a
like I said. You didn't tell me about the acrons
until just now. Oh yeah, hold on, hold on. He's
going to introduce akrons an hour into the interview.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Michael are you are you for man? Do with what
a potato gun could do?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Michael Berry The Michael Berry Show. You will find then
you like Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Did you court Linda to Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah? No, I did not, George straight from down George Straight? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
When did you court.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Linda twenty twenty nine years ago?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Oh? Okay, in your sixty three yes, sir, Well what
were you doing before that?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was trying to make you a living out.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Of farming, okay, as a single man, Yes, sir, Oh
my goodness, Okay. What was what was Linda doing?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
She was a school teacher, she's retired school teacher.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Oh that's always a good one to marry.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yes, sir. Been a good wife, been a real good
wife and good family. I got three good boys and
got a good wife.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
How many of Them's national Honors Society, all three of them,
and how many Eagle Scouts two? All right, I just
will make sure you hadn't forgotten. Uh. You know, I'm
looking on your website here. You're doing quite a job
of taking of toting this thing around and showing it
to people at different events. You're committed here, Yes, sir, Yes, sir?
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What do they say that?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
This is more? We had people in Dallas when we
went back this year for the second show. They they
basically wanted to see if we were still there.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I mean, people in Dallas don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well they sure they sure bought our feeders.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, I don't know if you want to sell to them,
that's not you. They don't know anything. I'd rather you
sell to uh Houston, San Antono in South Texas and
just draw a line maybe about Huntsville and tell everybody
north of that. Maybe maybe go up to Crockett and
then be we're not even gonna sell to y'all, you know,
just for a little while, just to aggravate them, you know,
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wet their appetite.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yes, sure, but we're we're in Kansas. Uh, we have
feeders in Kansas. We're working with a guy and uh
it once am out of Michigan. Oh uh, we have
a man out of Florida that we were in contact
with is wanting them down in Florida.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Uh, we got to get a retail location. Somebody's got
to carry them. Did you did you ever think about
what the name of that place was that I can't
think of. They got a green sign. It's on I
ten as you're heading out of Houston, and it's on
the right hand side, so that would be what the
north side, and it's something like field Housings or klous Housings.
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And they have a store there. And then if you
go up a little further about forty miles, they've got
an old store at the at the train track because
I buy my feed there sometimes. And you pull right
up to these two big bay doors. What is that right,
Klass houses. But they got great The reason I say
it is they got good uh it tend frontage and
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so that stuff company. I bet you they put that
when they're on consignment because they were selling it was
the it was the showroom piece. And and you drive
by and you can see it right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
There, Yes, sir, Well, like I said, Michael, we're just
we're we're a family business, and uh, we're just trying
to We're wanting to crawl before we walk type deal.
We're just easing into this thing. We're doing it out
of our out of our family barn here in Bay City,
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our office, and like I said, we're just trying to
trying to ease into this thing.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Are you having fun?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yes, sir? Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
What's been the most What's been the most fun about
being a manufacturer and having a product like this because
I get the impression you are enjoying it, and that
makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It really is the most fun I've had is when
people see it, and when I say, see it. We
have a show box at the show's where we can
shoot this theater off, where we can where where we
can activate this theater and shoot two bounds of corn
and show people how it works. Uh, there's no other
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feeder that can do that. We we we can. We
can show it right there. The biggest thing, the enjoyment
out of it is when people see it and they go, well,
why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Right? It has to be rewarding that you solved a
problem that you had and then you realize you solved
it better than other people. And other people are impressed
with your ingenuity. I mean, that's a pretty that's a
pretty neat deal.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It is that that gives me more enjoyed enjoyment than anything.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Hey, I don't want to complicate this too much, but
what if we was to put wheels on it, okay,
and the wheels would only be on the back side,
so it'd be like a Dolly and he would have
two handles, and then one person could just lean it back,
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and when you lean it back, you'd lift those legs off,
and then you'd have the wheels, good quality Dolly wheels, right,
rubber wheels, and you'd be able to move it around
like one person. Maybe not on rough terrain, but you
know in certain like at a at a at a
lake or whatever, on a deck, you'd be able to
move it and spin it real easy.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You could do that. You could do that our skid
that put it on, you can you can mount this
feeder on our skid and look on too with a
full wheeler and pull it anywhere you want to.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh, that's fair, it says cannon feeder feeder is now
available original long range and big pellet.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Right. Okay, we did offer a a smaller version of
the of the feeder.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
But oh, Steinhauser's, it's called Steinhauser's. Didn't.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Okay, I know who you're talking about. Yeah, I have
not touched base with them.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We haven't gone out and tried to get descripts or anything.
We're just basically setting them, setting them off our website.
I like it right now.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Now, how are you getting it to people? You don't
just drop ship a two hundred and ten pound feet Well.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
If we took seven of them to a man out
in concam now, if you'll buy like seven of them,
we'll deliver.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It wasn't Buddy Jimmerson, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
No, No, I forget the man's name.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It's a good website. Whoever did your website? They did.
It's real clean, a lot of negative space, easy to read,
not cluttered, very informative. Whoever did your website you should.
I'm very I'm critical of people's websites. This is a
real good website. Can you can you hold? Then? Can
you hold for man? All right?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Hold Michael? Are you are you familiar with what a
potato gun could do?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Guitars, cigars and a few thoughts from Bizarre Denton Licener
is the owner of Cannon Feeder. One of the things
that a number of people have emailed or tweeted or
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asked about was why you would want to throw the
feed away from the feeder.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Well, your deer in your game comes to your your
your feed a lot better because they're not spooped from
the feeder or shy about coming up. Your bigger bucks
will want to come up because there's nothing around. It's
like corning a right away. You can hide this feeder
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off the side and put it back into the right
of way. They're not feeding around your feeder, so they're
not shy.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And I guess, so how do you keep the water
with that? Canon looks like it's at about a not
quite not quite free angle, all right, So is that
how you keep the rain out?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, that in the bottom of the barrel underneath it
is slotted, so if there's any water that goes in,
it comes right.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Back out, so it'll be down at the bottom of
the barrel.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yes, sir. And plus that is a air water sell
aoid valve. It it will blow the water out every
time it shooes. We have had zero problems with water
or range.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What was the biggest problem you encountered when on the
first first go round.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
The biggest problem that I encountered, Like.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What was the biggest challenge that you had to you
had to overcome once you once you put it out
in the field.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well, once the proto, the first proto type was mounting
the barrel at the correct angle.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
What did you You did it too high at first?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
And that let water down in there?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Or what was the problems? It put too much feed
in there too quickly, and it became a problem. But
once we got the angle of the poe figured out
by an engineer, and the angle of the poe is
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what clean corn will flow at, or any feeded or
any product.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Oh, I thought that people have money.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
No, okay, It's similar to what an hour glass is.
When the sand comes out, it mounds up, but will
keep flowing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
So go the days of our lives. So you you
finished the first one of these in January of fourteen, Yes, sir?
Do you think more people are going to use it?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
On? Off, going off six times at the at our ranch?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, how about this? So this this compressor, I mean this,
I don't know what you call it, Like the little
pistols they shoot using that gas chamber. How long does
that gas chamber last?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Well, there's no, it doesn't retain any air. The timer
tells the compressor to come on, and once it builds
the air up in the air tank and puts the
corn out, your whole system's dead until the next time
the timer tells it to feed. Okay, it comes on.
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So there's no air in your tank. It takes approximately
fifty eight seconds to build up the air once the
compressor comes on. Approximately, yes, sir, depending on where you
have the pressure set. You can set this pressure down
to forty pounds or you can set it up to
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ninety pounds, just depending on how much pressure you put
in the tank, how long your compressor runs.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I called beaver Applan during the break that owns BUCkies,
and I texted him and I left him a message.
So if they call, I want my commission on this still. Okay, okay,
can you imagine? Well, I guess, I mean really, people
have to see it work in order. They can't just
look at it to appreciate it. They got to watch
it work.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So what do you have?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
You have like a netting that when you do this
at shows? So you can show people.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I have a box with plexiglass on each side that
we slide over that barrel and then we can shoot
the corn into the to the box to show people.
It's just very simple, Michael. I mean, when you see this,
you'll say the same thing that hundreds of people have
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set it to show. It's just too simple. It's it's real,
real simple, and it's all industrial parts. They use this
compressor in air ride vehicles. I got the ideal of
using the compressor off of my cat back hole. It
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has an air ride seat in it. It has a
compressor up underneath the seat. They use this on this
compressor on air ride suspension on in trucks, automobiles. They
use it an on off road vehicles. So it's right.
(37:44):
The celenoid valve is an industrial celenoid valve. They use
it in the prison systems. I was shocked as there.
But apparently in the prisons or jail out is you
don't get an hour to take a shower and uh
so too long they can turn it off.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah. How much custom fabrication do you have per unit
or is it all piece that pieces you can get manufacturing?
Just screw it in.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
No, we have it manufactured there in Houston.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
But I mean, is it custom fabrication or can you
just can you manufacture these? You know, mass manufacturing and
then you just screw them together.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
They're they're manufactured. They're all riveted together and welded. They're welded, yes,
from some parts of welded. Yes, sir yes, sir unmanufactured.
There is setting up to where he'll have one hundred
seeds ready to go for me.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, Denton, I wish you the best of luck. It's
so much fun to watch somebody do something like this.
And I don't know if it'll make it big. I
sure hope it does. I think it's the neatest thing going.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Thank it will. And I will get you a feeder
and let you use it and you watch the game
come to it.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Oh, you don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I'd love for you to have them well, and yeah,
you'll see more game come to this theater because they're
not feeding around a feeder.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I love it. Cannon all natural, I got it. Thank you, Dentton.
He did all this at the barbershop Cannonfeeder dot com.
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The Michael Berry Show, Netton. Are you an ac DC fan?
Am I a what ac DC fan? Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Don't particularly care for it, but I'll listen to it.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
How about AC Delco?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, so that'll work all right.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So the idea behind this cannon feeder is that the
number one, if you had to say, the number one
selling point is zero maintenance or zero work because of
the size and kind of self executing nature of it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, Sir Michael, this feeder shoots two pounds of corn
every time it shoots.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, Now, explain this to me, like I'm six years old.
How does it gather a packet of corn to send
it out? What's the mechanism inside that's gathering that amount
of corn.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's strictly gravity fed. Then my hopper in the feeder
goes to the all the way to the front, so
it's gravity fed. Every time it goes off, it fills
the barrel back up. I have a two by three
barrel in this on this theater. And when I say barrel,
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it is a it's just like a potato gun. Every
time it shoots, two pounds of corn goes back into
the barrel and it's ready to shoot again.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now, Here's what I don't understand. Okay, the barrel extends
out of the.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Box, yes, sir, nineteen inches.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You're not filling up the barrel outside the box, no, sure,
only inside, yes, all right. And then it creates a seal,
and then that's with that seal, and the compression is
shooting it out, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
At the end of the barrel, there is a inch
and a half annoyeds valve that's connected to an air tank,
a two gallon air tank. So the compressor fills the
air tank up within old about fifty eight seconds. It'll
fill it up to eighty five to ninety pounds. As
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soon as it does, it activates the soellinoid valve industrial
solinoid valve, and it fires, and when it fires, it
shoots the corn out anywhere from forty to fifty yards
at eighty to ninety pounds. You can turn this feeder
up higher. I don't recommend it just for safety reasons. Michael,
(02:45):
are you Are you familiar with what a potato gun
could do?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Is that the reason why.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I put all three of my boys in front of
the cannon feeder and shot it, and it didn't hurt
any any one of them.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So did you have to talk them into that or
did they did? They willingly agree because I mean what if.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They had whether dad does and two? Okay, but no,
it will not hurt you. Now, if you're looking down
the barrel and it goes off, it would it would
probably pay for you pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Do you have a particular brand of corn you use?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No? Sure, no, sure, But you can fill this feeder
up with six hundred and fifty pounds of corn, shoot
two pounds a day or four pounds a day, two feedings,
one in the morning, one in the afternoon. It will
last you approximately one hundred and sixty three days.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Approximately one hundred and sixty three days, Yes, sir, that's
very specific, then't.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So so you've got to go out twice a year
and refill this thing, that's correct. So will you go
back out twice a year you refilling the corn? And
then you're what else the solar panel? Like, what other
do we have it?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We have a twenty watt solar panel on it. Yeah,
we have a charger control, solar charger control for our
battery to maintain it correctly, just not hooking up a
solar panel to a battery like most feeders do. We
have a solar charger control so it's not overcharging or
(04:36):
under charge. It's just a straight twelve volt battery eighteen
half hours. What I use. It's the simplest feeder on
the market. You set your timer for one second. All
your timer is doing when it comes on, it's shooting
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seven o'clock in the morning. You said it for one second.
It tells the compressor to come on. The compressor fills
the air tank up to wherever you have to found
it set at.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How broad is the area that the corn is being
dispensed across?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, it'll shoot it out anywhere from forty to fifty
yards sixty foot area.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How come you use yards for the distance it shoots it,
but foot for the distance of cover?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Just did We were with Duck Dynasty and Austin Buck
Commanders in Austin, Texas and we were shooting it in
a parking lot and we had to take measure that
we were measuring it with. That's just what we came
up with. Well, it is a great aquatic.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Feed But when you measured the distance that shot the
corn and you look down, what did it measure the distance.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
At the in between east kernel.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
No, the distance from where from the barrel to where
it landed like a shot.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Put about fifty yards.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
So it measured it in yards. Okay. And then when
you measure where the first corn hit and where the
furthest corn had gone, what did it measure there?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
We didn't. We didn't measure that. But you said measure that.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You said that was about twenty feet or twenty foot? No,
because that would be the spread right right.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The spread is sixty feet in the distance is forty
to fifty yards.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
How many did you have on your property?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh? One, two, three, four right now?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
How many do you have in the road? Yeah? How
many you have in warehouse right now?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh? We got some probably fifteen. We have ten more
being built. We're going to McAllen to a show in
mac Allen in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Who is we?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Uh? My wife and I and Luke Leisner my cousin.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
What is.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Linda? All right?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Can you hold with me for just a minute?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You bet?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Hold on? Do you have questions for mom?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Michael? Are you are you familiar with what a potato
gun could do? You know?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
No offense to Hannity or even rush my friend Mark Levin,
Michael Savage. How many people have that question asked of that?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Michael? Are you are you familiar with what a potato
gun could do? Not?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Everybody gets asked that question every day on radio Denton
Liistner is our guest Denton. What happens is if you
get fifty orders cannon feeders today.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We have a manufacturer there in Houston, mister Sheep Metal,
that has has them ready to go. All he has
tod All you do is all we have to do
is call them and they'll sto putting them together and
deliver them here. We put the assemble them here and
(08:25):
finish them off here in Bay City and they're ready.
We can do about ten to fifteen a day.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh well that's good.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
How much can you make? How much can you make
on one unit?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well, now our.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
People don't mind. They want you to make a profit.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm gonna be making around five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
A unit, Okay, So it could end up being. It's
kind of deal that if you could, if you could,
and if you could get some sales going and get
a distributor and get somebody to carry this thing. Is
anybody carrying is a reach. Is any retail outlet carrying
it now?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Most are not at all. We're we're just a mom
in Popville. It's my wife and Linda and my cousin
Luke and Hugh's Dallas fort Worth. He kind of handles
the sales for me and my three boys. And I've
put it together here as symbol all the components ourselves.
(09:26):
M it's just the mom and pop deal. We want
to start, uh, you know, start off slow and uh
just keep growing. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
There's a there's a company on the on I ten
right after you, right after you get out of town,
before Brookshire, and it's something like Old Housings or meal
Housings or field Housings or something.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But they're very good. It's like a feed store and
they have a lot of outdoor stuff. But they're very
good at letting people. I don't know if it's a
consignment system or how they do it, but they're very
good at letting people put their deals there. I went
to a shot show two years ago and discovered this
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deer stand that looks like a stump, looks like a tree,
and you get in it and it's perfectly sealed. It's
got good gaskets on it, and it's a plastic material,
but it's insulated, so you can get in there and
you could put a you know, probably your own body
heat would would be enough unless it was really cold.
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But it has these little windows that operate and the
real precision machine and you can open the window. You
know a lot of these feeders, a lot of these
deer stands. You open the window and you can scare
everything off. So you have to keep it open, which
means you have to keep it so quiet. And I
don't know if you could pull it off. I'd have
to have homes or one of my deer hunting buddies
tell me if you could pull us off. But it's
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so quiet to open that window. And I thought, I
was so impressed with it, But so I asked them
who carried it, and we came back and the only
people in it's a Sanatone company that makes it. But
they said the only people that carried it was this
place on uh On. I I was just thinking, if
you could get somebody to put it out where people
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could see it right right.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Uh We we've been showing them at the uh Texas
Trophy Extra Hunting extravagance in Houston, Fort Worth, San Antone.
We uh Dallas Support Club. We've made that and had
a great reception in both of them. We're going to MacAllen.
We'll be headed to uh uh New Orleans to the
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uh q m A uh Texas or Quality Management and
their Association. I believe uh we'll be making that. Doctor
Kroll uh has has got us arranged with that, which
is been real well, uh we just had We've had
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great reception everywhere we went.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
But are they buying it? Are they buying it? Then?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, we're just we Michael, We're changed. We're
trying to change a whole industry. This is the newest
theater out there. It's it's it's it's been spinners spinner
spinners since the nineteen fifty and like, well, it's it's great.
(12:35):
But you gotta hang them high. You gotta mudhole and
you gotta then you got to do that. You gotta
walk through, you gotta climb up, or you gotta mindsets
on the ground. I have a skid.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, I like to set it up you know right there,
you know, right above you those spinners. I mean it's worked,
but maybe this is.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Better well, you gotta see this, so I gotta I
gotta get you on.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, let me ask you that.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Let me tell you this. The deer you are not
feeding around a feeder. You can hide this feeder. You
can set it off the right away, Michael, and shoot
it back down you right away. Your deer will come
to this feeder a lot better because they're not around
they're not around a feeder. If you need to, you
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can shoot it into the pin a feed pin if
you need to.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Now, that's an interesting concept.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
If they're not underneath that feeder, they're not scared of it.
You know.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I wonder about the applications outside of hunting. Shooting into
a pin is an interesting concept for people that are
that are pen raising animals. You said you you were
talking about putting it on a lake or a pond.
Ramon was wondering, and I don't know if you've tried
this yet. If you can set it up and fill
it full of peanuts like during football at the house
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and shoot peanuts out, have you tried that any.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We have one man that bought our feeder.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Hold on, let me ask you so much, Michael.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Are you are you familiar with what a potato gun
could do.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Could we put peanuts in it?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You could put peanuts in it. You can put anything
in it. Just grab, he said. And for your response
about what a potato gun can do, Uh, it's it's
not shooting a mask like a piece of potato is
not coming out of there with that greater force. Uh.
(14:38):
The compressor comes on, it gives you full warning what's
fixed to happen. I know what corn can do coming
out of the spinner feeder. If you're sitting there looking
at the spinner feeder, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Not gonna put my kids in front of it and
test whether it works or not.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
No, I know what a weed eater or do if
you hit it, hit your toe with.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
This, yeah, and then you're always You remember when the
weed eaters first came out, and you spent more time
refeeding the line than you did actually cut. It was
easier to just get down with your hands and pluck
the monkey grass than it was to use the the
weed eater. And it was that orange string and you'd
(15:19):
have to keep threading it through that the whole time,
and then firing that thing up. That was an art
to getting that thing fired up. Am I right? I
heard that because it would flood. Didn't Hold on just
a minute. I feel like you're trying to sell me
on it. You're not trying to sell me on it, right, No, okay,
hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Michael, Are you are you familiar with what a potato
gun could do?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
The Michael Berry Show continues.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Are you are you familiar with what a potato gun
could do?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Didn't do you just really like potato guns?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Uh? No, sir, not at all. Did you use the
same concept as a potato gun.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
It's the last time you shot a potato gun?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh lord, I couldn't tell you that.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Do you think you have more recently shot a potato
gun or got a straight razor shave?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Probably shot a potato gun, because that was back in
seventy six. I got a straight razor.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I think you're overdue. Is that you in the picture
with the white beard? Yes, sir, Oh you'd love a
straight razor shave at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't no longer have a beard that was just
for go hunting out in West Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, you need that.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
So now, this this feeder, when you see it and
see the concept and how it works, it sells itself.
It sells itself. People. It weighs two ten.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Empty and you can put it in the back of
a truck. What are the what are the specs? What
is the.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Elect fifty six inches wide where it sets in your
truck and it's around fifty fifty four inches tall? Okay,
but the the feeder sells itself. I don't have to
sell the feeder when people see it at these shows,
and uh, when we introduce it, the people they just
(17:42):
say it it's so simple. Why why hadn't I thought
of that? And uh, it's like I said, it sells itself.
I don't have to sell it. It sells itself. Now
it's an investment. It's sixteen hundred dollars. But you're how
much was the deer blind that you said you liked?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
More thousand more than that, so you.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Invest it's an investment.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, if I told you what I've spent on night
vision scopes, if I told you what I've been spent
on night vision binoculars, I told you what I've spent
on night lights around the feeder, if I told you
what I spent on John Deere gators, then no.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
But here here's the deal, Michael, you go out and
you spend three four thousand, five thousand dollars on a
deer lease, You buy you an ATV for eleven thousand,
You buy you a camper to stay in it's for
another twenty five thirty thousand dollars, and you buy you
a deer blind that costs five thousand dollars. Why wouldn't
(18:57):
you want a deer feeder that worked consistently, sits on
the ground, easy to fill, reliable, has a two year
warranty on it. No tunes, no hogs, no rain can
bother it.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I don't feel like it's selling itself right now.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I mean it's so easy.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
How far off the ground does it sit.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Without the skid? We offer a skid that you can
put it on. It says with the skid it's around
sixty four inches tall.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
No, no, But without the skid it literally sits on
the ground right, there's no legs.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It sits off the ground around twelve inches with the legs. Now,
we have a feeder that we I'll be taking up
to Houston this week to the manufacturer. He will be
mounting one on a trailer. How many have you ever
seen that can sit on a trailer that can be mobile.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You mean you can pull it around on a four wheeler.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes, sir, o our truck. This feeder here, you can
sit underneath your deer blind and it will put corn
out in front of your deer feeder. I mean you're
sitting area your deer blind.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You mean it was shoot it over your head?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It little shoot you straight out in front of you.
It's a great bow blind.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Boat feeder for hunting.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
When I go out to Chapel Hill or Brenham or
Carmeene or round Top, I go two ninety out of
Houston right, and as I'm headed out, I go around
this curve. I guess it's probably somewhere when I'm in
Waller County, And on the right is a place kind
of sat back. It's just a warehouse and a bunch
of feeder's called Ultimatic or something like that. Are you
(20:55):
familiar with them?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Are they any good?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
All the theaters are good. Your spinners though, well, I
quit using the spinner when I invented this.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Do you have a patent on this?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
If you don't, you need If you don't, I know
some good intellectual property lawyers, because I would really like
to see you do well off this, do you know?
The guy that made the uh super soaker was No,
it's it's the deal that you you you fill it
full of water and you pool and then you know,
(21:35):
you can run around shooting each other. I saw an
Inventor's program on him. He was a black guy that
worked at a at a company like Mattel or I
can't remember where he were, but he took the super soaker. No,
he didn't work at montel He worked at let's just
say whatever, and I think he had an engineering degree.
Really smart guy, and he had this prototype that did
(21:57):
not look very attractive. But the point was it was
a very very simple, like yours, very simple technology that
nobody thought of and was not it wasn't so easy
to replicate. And he took it to Mattel or Hasbro
or one of those companies, and they turned him down,
and he came back, and he came back, and then
finally somebody took a chance on it. Nobody believed it
(22:18):
would take off, and it did, and he's made the
product has sold hundreds of millions, and he's made say,
fifty million dollars off of this very simple technology that's
you know, nothing advanced, and I guess technically anybody could
make one because his first one he used just household products.
But I don't think the fact that it's simple makes
it any less marketable or profitable. H ross Bro used
(22:42):
to say the entrepreneur he most admired, or the inventor
he most admired, was a guy who came up with
the twist tie. You remember the green twist tie, because
he said, literally, anybody could have come up with that,
and that guy became a billionaire off of something that
every one of us should have been able to. But
it's also scalable everybody. I mean, it's scalable, and it's uh,
(23:07):
it has virality. Everybody needs one. But I don't know
that everybody needs or affords what you have, But I
think there's a lot of people that would well.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Like you said, the concept is simple. Uh, it's very reliable,
which is very reliable. It shoots that their slice amount
of corn, whereas your spinner feeder you unless you catch
it in a bucket and weigh it, you had no
idea what what you're.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Putting out, what if you were to put out could
put in there? You know, this warfare and based product you.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Could put out and like I said, I have one
guy that's feeding that acrons. You can put protein in this.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, you didn't tell me, it's not it's not a
like I said. You didn't tell me about the acrons
until just now. Oh yeah, hold on, hold on. He's
going to introduce akrons an hour into the interview.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Michael are you are you for man? Do with what
a potato gun could do?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Michael Berry The Michael Berry Show. You will find then
you like Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Did you court Linda to Frank Sinatra?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah? No, I did not, George straight from down George Straight? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
When did you court.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Linda twenty twenty nine years ago?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Oh? Okay, in your sixty three yes, sir, Well what
were you doing before that?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was trying to make you a living out.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Of farming, okay, as a single man, Yes, sir, Oh
my goodness, Okay. What was what was Linda doing?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
She was a school teacher, she's retired school teacher.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Oh that's always a good one to marry.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yes, sir. Been a good wife, been a real good
wife and good family. I got three good boys and
got a good wife.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
How many of Them's national Honors Society, all three of them,
and how many Eagle Scouts two? All right, I just
will make sure you hadn't forgotten. Uh. You know, I'm
looking on your website here. You're doing quite a job
of taking of toting this thing around and showing it
to people at different events. You're committed here, Yes, sir, Yes, sir?
(25:34):
What do they say that?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
This is more? We had people in Dallas when we
went back this year for the second show. They they
basically wanted to see if we were still there.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I mean, people in Dallas don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well they sure they sure bought our feeders.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, I don't know if you want to sell to them,
that's not you. They don't know anything. I'd rather you
sell to uh Houston, San Antono in South Texas and
just draw a line maybe about Huntsville and tell everybody
north of that. Maybe maybe go up to Crockett and
then be we're not even gonna sell to y'all, you know,
just for a little while, just to aggravate them, you know,
(26:16):
wet their appetite.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yes, sure, but we're we're in Kansas. Uh, we have
feeders in Kansas. We're working with a guy and uh
it once am out of Michigan. Oh uh, we have
a man out of Florida that we were in contact
with is wanting them down in Florida.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Uh, we got to get a retail location. Somebody's got
to carry them. Did you did you ever think about
what the name of that place was that I can't
think of. They got a green sign. It's on I
ten as you're heading out of Houston, and it's on
the right hand side, so that would be what the
north side, and it's something like field Housings or klous Housings.
(26:57):
And they have a store there. And then if you
go up a little further about forty miles, they've got
an old store at the at the train track because
I buy my feed there sometimes. And you pull right
up to these two big bay doors. What is that right,
Klass houses. But they got great The reason I say
it is they got good uh it tend frontage and
(27:21):
so that stuff company. I bet you they put that
when they're on consignment because they were selling it was
the it was the showroom piece. And and you drive
by and you can see it right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
There, Yes, sir, Well, like I said, Michael, we're just
we're we're a family business, and uh, we're just trying
to We're wanting to crawl before we walk type deal.
We're just easing into this thing. We're doing it out
of our out of our family barn here in Bay City,
(27:58):
our office, and like I said, we're just trying to
trying to ease into this thing.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Are you having fun?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yes, sir? Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
What's been the most What's been the most fun about
being a manufacturer and having a product like this because
I get the impression you are enjoying it, and that
makes me happy.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It really is the most fun I've had is when
people see it, and when I say, see it. We
have a show box at the show's where we can
shoot this theater off, where we can where where we
can activate this theater and shoot two bounds of corn
and show people how it works. Uh, there's no other
(28:41):
feeder that can do that. We we we can. We
can show it right there. The biggest thing, the enjoyment
out of it is when people see it and they go, well,
why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Right? It has to be rewarding that you solved a
problem that you had and then you realize you solved
it better than other people. And other people are impressed
with your ingenuity. I mean, that's a pretty that's a
pretty neat deal.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
It is that that gives me more enjoyed enjoyment than anything.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Hey, I don't want to complicate this too much, but
what if we was to put wheels on it, okay,
and the wheels would only be on the back side,
so it'd be like a Dolly and he would have
two handles, and then one person could just lean it back,
(29:37):
and when you lean it back, you'd lift those legs off,
and then you'd have the wheels, good quality Dolly wheels, right,
rubber wheels, and you'd be able to move it around
like one person. Maybe not on rough terrain, but you
know in certain like at a at a at a
lake or whatever, on a deck, you'd be able to
move it and spin it real easy.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You could do that. You could do that our skid
that put it on, you can you can mount this
feeder on our skid and look on too with a
full wheeler and pull it anywhere you want to.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh, that's fair, it says cannon feeder feeder is now
available original long range and big pellet.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Right. Okay, we did offer a a smaller version of
the of the feeder.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
But oh, Steinhauser's, it's called Steinhauser's. Didn't.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Okay, I know who you're talking about. Yeah, I have
not touched base with them.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We haven't gone out and tried to get descripts or anything.
We're just basically setting them, setting them off our website.
I like it right now.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Now, how are you getting it to people? You don't
just drop ship a two hundred and ten pound feet Well.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
If we took seven of them to a man out
in concam now, if you'll buy like seven of them,
we'll deliver.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It wasn't Buddy Jimmerson, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
No, No, I forget the man's name.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It's a good website. Whoever did your website? They did.
It's real clean, a lot of negative space, easy to read,
not cluttered, very informative. Whoever did your website you should.
I'm very I'm critical of people's websites. This is a
real good website. Can you can you hold? Then? Can
you hold for man? All right?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Hold Michael? Are you are you familiar with what a
potato gun could do?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Guitars, cigars and a few thoughts from Bizarre Denton Licener
is the owner of Cannon Feeder. One of the things
that a number of people have emailed or tweeted or
(32:02):
asked about was why you would want to throw the
feed away from the feeder.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Well, your deer in your game comes to your your
your feed a lot better because they're not spooped from
the feeder or shy about coming up. Your bigger bucks
will want to come up because there's nothing around. It's
like corning a right away. You can hide this feeder
(32:32):
off the side and put it back into the right
of way. They're not feeding around your feeder, so they're
not shy.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And I guess, so how do you keep the water
with that? Canon looks like it's at about a not
quite not quite free angle, all right, So is that
how you keep the rain out?
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, that in the bottom of the barrel underneath it
is slotted, so if there's any water that goes in,
it comes right.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Back out, so it'll be down at the bottom of
the barrel.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yes, sir. And plus that is a air water sell
aoid valve. It it will blow the water out every
time it shooes. We have had zero problems with water
or range.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What was the biggest problem you encountered when on the
first first go round.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
The biggest problem that I encountered, Like.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What was the biggest challenge that you had to you
had to overcome once you once you put it out
in the field.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well, once the proto, the first proto type was mounting
the barrel at the correct angle.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
What did you You did it too high at first?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
And that let water down in there?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Or what was the problems? It put too much feed
in there too quickly, and it became a problem. But
once we got the angle of the poe figured out
by an engineer, and the angle of the poe is
(34:27):
what clean corn will flow at, or any feeded or
any product.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Oh, I thought that people have money.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
No, okay, It's similar to what an hour glass is.
When the sand comes out, it mounds up, but will
keep flowing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
So go the days of our lives. So you you
finished the first one of these in January of fourteen, Yes, sir?
Do you think more people are going to use it?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
On? Off, going off six times at the at our ranch?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, how about this? So this this compressor, I mean this,
I don't know what you call it, Like the little
pistols they shoot using that gas chamber. How long does
that gas chamber last?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Well, there's no, it doesn't retain any air. The timer
tells the compressor to come on, and once it builds
the air up in the air tank and puts the
corn out, your whole system's dead until the next time
the timer tells it to feed. Okay, it comes on.
(35:38):
So there's no air in your tank. It takes approximately
fifty eight seconds to build up the air once the
compressor comes on. Approximately, yes, sir, depending on where you
have the pressure set. You can set this pressure down
to forty pounds or you can set it up to
(36:01):
ninety pounds, just depending on how much pressure you put
in the tank, how long your compressor runs.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I called beaver Applan during the break that owns BUCkies,
and I texted him and I left him a message.
So if they call, I want my commission on this still. Okay, okay,
can you imagine? Well, I guess, I mean really, people
have to see it work in order. They can't just
look at it to appreciate it. They got to watch
it work.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So what do you have?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
You have like a netting that when you do this
at shows? So you can show people.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I have a box with plexiglass on each side that
we slide over that barrel and then we can shoot
the corn into the to the box to show people.
It's just very simple, Michael. I mean, when you see this,
you'll say the same thing that hundreds of people have
(37:03):
set it to show. It's just too simple. It's it's real,
real simple, and it's all industrial parts. They use this
compressor in air ride vehicles. I got the ideal of
using the compressor off of my cat back hole. It
(37:24):
has an air ride seat in it. It has a
compressor up underneath the seat. They use this on this
compressor on air ride suspension on in trucks, automobiles. They
use it an on off road vehicles. So it's right.
(37:44):
The celenoid valve is an industrial celenoid valve. They use
it in the prison systems. I was shocked as there.
But apparently in the prisons or jail out is you
don't get an hour to take a shower and uh
so too long they can turn it off.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah. How much custom fabrication do you have per unit
or is it all piece that pieces you can get manufacturing?
Just screw it in.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
No, we have it manufactured there in Houston.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
But I mean, is it custom fabrication or can you
just can you manufacture these? You know, mass manufacturing and
then you just screw them together.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
They're they're manufactured. They're all riveted together and welded. They're welded, yes,
from some parts of welded. Yes, sir yes, sir unmanufactured.
There is setting up to where he'll have one hundred
seeds ready to go for me.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, Denton, I wish you the best of luck. It's
so much fun to watch somebody do something like this.
And I don't know if it'll make it big. I
sure hope it does. I think it's the neatest thing going.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Thank it will. And I will get you a feeder
and let you use it and you watch the game
come to it.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Oh, you don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I'd love for you to have them well, and yeah,
you'll see more game come to this theater because they're
not feeding around a feeder.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I love it. Cannon all natural, I got it. Thank you, Dentton.
He did all this at the barbershop Cannonfeeder dot com.
I love these stories. I could do them every day.
I won't, don't worry, but I could because they're out there.
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