ATV feeder attachment

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Radio interview source: Randy Stull, owner, Stull Feeders

For all the tales I tell on this show about my husband, Bob, there's one thing I don't often mention that I'm really proud of: his ability to put this and that together to make something useful. Bob loves to find cast-off junk and transform it into whatever we need, like using old detergent drums to make sheep feeders.

Randy Stull, a turkey and cattle farmer in Arkansas, was inspired to create a new solution after he suffered an injury while feeding his livestock. He didn't want that to happen again. So, he developed a new galvanized steel box attachment for ATVs that allows people to feed their livestock without using buckets or bags. You won't need to go near the eager, hungry animals, either.

"The farmer can stay on his vehicle, drive along his troughs, put it out on the ground, however he feeds, and continue right on," Stull says. "He doesn't have to get off. There's a stop adjustment for the gate so he can control how much and how far he's going to put it out, or if he's putting it in troughs, how much he's going to put out."

Stull says a chore that used to take him two hours or more every day now takes about a half-hour -- and that includes the time it takes to restock.