Contech CRO101 Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Contech CRO101 Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler
Customer Review: Cats Scatted & More
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading the reviews of other items used to get cats from making a litter box out of yard gardens, I went straight to this item which had great reviews. The others that used everything from coyote urine to cayenne pepper. This item had a long, wide, and selectable spray area and there were not complaints about the sensitivity of the detector. I got immediate and effective results. The offending cat left some disturbed mulch where he sprang out if there so fast! In fact, my neighbor decided to give this cat, that was not litter box trained, to relatives in the country, and to keep his other cat which he could keep indoors. He was even very nice about it, finally, and was intrigued by the motion detector sprinkle. The only question I have about this item is that I'm not sure if the washer that is meant to make the seal to my hose could be improved or not. It may have been my hose end, but I didn't get a perfect seal and had water seepage at the hose connection that would have been a problem if I had to use this long term. IF it was because of the washer, that would be cheap enough to replace, and since it was so effective and my neighbor responded extremely favorably, I don't need to use it anymore. 5 Stars!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: 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: Scarecrow set up
Summary: 4 Stars
The Scarecrow should work. The sensitivities seem right and the water pressure is sufficient to scare off the deer which frolick, unwantedly, in our garden. The problem is the set up. The hose to Scarecrow connection, as is, would require disassembling the Scarecrow from its stake, then rotating it to remove it from a garden hose. There should be a swivel female acceptor for the garden hose which would allow quick and easy disconnection from the garden hose. The "quick release" device provided is of minimal use, as it would require purchasing quick release accessories for each garden hose (we bought three Scarecrows), and these quick release accessories would not be compatible, easily, with other sprinklers, wand sprinklers, nozzles, etc. It is difficult to find a swivel female (for the garden hose end) and male (for the Scarecrow connection) accessory. Instead, I ended up with a brass female swivel to female connector which requires screwing the quick release plastic piece in part way, then attaching the brass female part to the short piece of plastic male piece still accessible and the swivel female part to the garden hose. Contec should have a better hose to Scarecrow connection. lbCustomer 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.