Contech CRO101 Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Contech CRO101 Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler
Customer Review: Love at first meow
Summary: 5 Stars
I got the scarecrow for a massive neighborhood cat problem. (roughly 20 running around wild and the city will do nothing, but that is another story)
It works awesome! After a few days no cats coming through the area targeted and doing their thing. The crow can then be moved to a new area and the cats do not return to the old area.
I will put the negatives in here as well but, I love my crow so much they do not change my 5 star.
If it is set on much sensitivity at all, it will detect vehicles from an extreme distance, causing alot of false positives. This can easily be fixed by not aiming it towards roads.
The other is the fact that it will not differentiate between you and the disease and parasite infected cats. So if you use it in a human traffic area, expect to forget and get wet on occasion.
Almost forgot...You can take this as a negative or positive, your call. The neighbors dog found it, and fell in love. She could not get enough of "making the water happen". I don't think I have ever seen that dog so happy.
Love it, would have paid full retail for it, was very happen to get it from here for $59.99.
Customer Review: A whole new world!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The scarecrow has opened a whole new world of landscaping opportunites for me!!! For 2 years I have shared my home with about 20 deer. I love the animals and feed them twice a day in an area across my pond BUT they loved to have dessert in my landscaping. I have spent $$$$ trying all types of sprays with deterrent odors without success. An electric fence worked OK but looked so bad. The scarecrows (currently I am using 4 of them) have been working perfectly for the past month that I have had them out. The deer have learned NOT to approach these areas at all, as have my cats, the squirrels, and the rabbits...not sure about the armadillos yet. I have been able to plant flowers of my choice in planters on my stone patio, I have ROSES!!! I have a small garden. ALL of these areas are protected by my scarecrows and are flourishing. My deer still graze in my yard and certainly visit my feeder but we are cohabitating in a wonderful way. They have become part of my scenery that I now can enjoy. Several are now pregnant and two, I believe, are carrying twins. SO...the scarecrow has given me my landscaping back while preserving my privlege to view my wildlife. A SUPER DUPER WONDERFUL product!!!!Customer Review: This product works -deer go away
Summary: 5 Stars
(Update: 4 years after original review: This product continues to keep the deer away. Four years of 6 month a year daily use and the original one is still going strong, plus my Mom bought another herself for another part of the yard. -Excellent product)
I bought this for my Mom in Michigan for Mother's Day. For the past five years she'd tried everything to keep the deer out of her flower garden - netting on the ground, fishing wire placed on posts about 3 feet off the ground... no matter what, some of the deer got in the garden. I'd told her about this product for several years, but she figured it didn't really work, I figured, let's give it a try. It has been installed for 3 weeks now, and the deer have yet to go into her garden (and they live on their property, so they are around). She just told me that some bulbs she planted 5 years ago are blooming for the first time ever - every year before they'd been eaten before they bloomed.
We'd highly recommend this product and she's about to order another.
One hint, get a good hose to go with this product, since the water pressure remains constant, you want a newer hose that can handle that pressure.
Customer Review: Thank you Contech - It works!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
It started about 3 Month ago. Our neighbor's pets (cats and dogs) started coming to our front yard to mark their territory. Any one who had to pick up after (other's pets) know the frustration.... We tried and tried: Pepper, Grounded peper, fine grounded peper, milk carton repellents and watering the lawn 24 hours a day. etc. etc. etc. Nothing seemed to work. I was tired of being reminded what the previous meal the pets had. My next option was 24 hour surveillance (me), then I came across this product on the web.
I purchased 2 since we have front and back yard. I first installed one in the front yard (scene of crime). Next day, the activity moved to our back yard so I installed second unit in the back.
Since then (2 weeks ago). no more problem. Amazing!!!
If you have similar scenerio, this product is prevention and cure. I recommend to anyone. Just make sure to get one for front and back (These pets are smart).
I can only imagine with joy the reaction on the pets face when they got splashed (Meow!!!). In a way, a satisfaction from revenge...
Mouse
Customer Review: Look out garden snatchers!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This thing is great! The birds were eating our tomatoes during the day and the deer were just tromping through the entire garden and eating anything they could find at night. I ordered the Scarecrow sprinkler from Amazon using Prime overnight shipping, and noticed an immediate difference!
There is a motion sensitivity dial on the back that allows you to fine tune how much motion it takes to activate the 3 second swiveling burst of water, and there is an automatic 8 second pause between motion detection periods once it goes off. I have watched the birds try to swoop in without landing to snatch a bite of tomato, having learned their lesson after a few touch-down initiated sprinklings (smart little buggers), but the motion detector is sensitive enough to attack them in the air too ;-)
I haven't found a single deer track in the garden since we bought it, as I just leave it on all the time to protect our vegetables at night, too. Seems expensive, but well worth the money when you consider the hundreds of dollars spent and the hours of working in the organic vegetable garden to end up just feeding the wildlife!