You've bought "squirrel-proof" before
A steel station a squirrel cannot chew through, climb past, or sit on. You fill it, and for once the birds are the ones emptying it.
The war so far
Vaseline, Slinkys, cayenne in the seed, moving the feeder six times. Squirrels beat all of it, because every trick still leaves them something to grip, chew, or jump to.
You don't need another trick. You need hardware.
station-cutaway.jpg — frame, sleeve, ports
Why this one holds
Steel where they chew
The seed tube sits inside a chew-proof steel frame. No plastic seam to gnaw open.
A guard where they climb
The pole wears a smooth sleeve guard with no grip line.
Nothing where they land
No platform to squat on. That is the whole trick: there is nothing left for him to work with.
Read this before you buy
Here is the part the box never tells you. Birders have a name for this and it is called the 5-7-9 rule: a grown squirrel goes about five feet straight up, about seven feet sideways, and drops about nine feet onto whatever it wants. So if your feeder sits within seven feet of a fence rail, a deck post, a low branch or a shed roof, no pole guard on earth matters. He is not climbing past it. He is landing above it.
So the guard is half the product. The other half is where you put it. Seven feet of open air on every side is the floor, and about five feet off the ground. We tell people to give it ten if the yard allows, because seven is what an average squirrel does and the one in your yard does not have to be average. Clear that and the guard never gets tested, because he cannot get close enough to try.
We would rather tell you now than refund you in three weeks.
Not sure about your yard? Open the placement map. One printable page, free, and you don't have to buy anything or give us your email to read it.
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If you want the one with ten years of reviews, buy the name brand. We're the same construction with three times the seed and the pole in the box, and a guarantee that costs us more than theirs does.
What you're getting
| Construction | Heavy-duty metal frame with polycarbonate seed tube |
|---|---|
| Feeding ports | Four, each with its own perch |
| Mounting | Ground pole with smooth sleeve guard, stakes in without tools |
| Shipping | Free, 3 to 5 days, from a US warehouse |
| Returns | 30 days. Keep it, we refund you. |
The point of all this
Four perched ports feed a crowd without the shoving match of a tray feeder.
Still open for business in February.
Straight answers
Then you already know the failure mode: plastic, or a pole with something to grab. This one is steel around the tube and a smooth sleeve on the pole. And read the placement section above, because half the products in garages failed on where they were hung, not what they were made of.
Correct, and we're not going to fake them. We launched this week. Judge the hardware and the guarantee. When real reviews exist they go on this page with names attached.
There is, and it's a decent little hanging feeder — a metal cage around a plastic tube, about three pounds of seed, and nothing to stand it on. You hang it, which means you inherit whatever your yard can jump from. At the other end, the name brand is $129 direct from the brand before shipping, and the pole mount is another $30 on top, and that still isn't a pole. We're the middle on purpose: ten pounds of seed and the ground pole in the box.
Not here. If a squirrel beats it, you keep the station and we refund you. Nothing to box up, nothing to ship, no receipt to find.
Steel frame, polycarbonate tube, outdoors year round. The photo above is it working in snow.
Feeder Fort is a new, small US shop. We did not manufacture this station. We found it, we bought it, and we put our name and our money behind it. It ships from a warehouse in California in 3 to 5 days, and there's a real email on the contact page that a person reads.
If a squirrel beats it, keep the station and we refund you. No return, no questions.
You have 30 days. If a squirrel beats it, email us and we send back all $99. You keep the station. We're not going to make you box up a four-foot pole and pay freight to prove a point. Send us the video if you want. We'd genuinely like to see it.
Free 3 to 5 day shipping · how returns work
How it works
Pole sections push into the ground and the station locks on top. No concrete, no brackets, no drill.
One bag of seed. Top it up when it looks low.
Birds at the ports, squirrel on the ground, you at the window.
Who's behind this
Before any of this was a company it was Saturday mornings with a canteen and a compass. We were Boy Scouts. We learned knots we have mostly forgotten and a couple of things we never did: leave a place better than you found it, and the best part of any campsite is whatever wanders in once you have been still long enough.
Mostly what wandered in was birds. Cardinals, blue jays, and one woodpecker that sounded like a man with a jackhammer. You learn their names without meaning to.
Then you grow up, you get a yard of your own, you hang a feeder, and a squirrel empties the whole thing before lunch. It is a small thing to be annoyed about. It is also the exact opposite of sitting still and watching something wild decide your yard is safe.
So we went looking for the one that holds. We did not invent it and we are not going to pretend we did. We found it, we put our name on it, and we stand behind it with a refund you do not have to ship anything back for.
Leave it better than you found it. Or at least leave the birds something to eat.
The whole point
One steel station, four perches, a guarded pole, and a guarantee that costs us money if we're wrong.
Get the Feeder Fort — $99