[TheForge] [YAK] Re: electric "firecracker"??? OT

[Justin Fellenz]

At reagan national airport here they have air cannon...just long tubes
with I would assume a valve on a timed solenoid, I'd guess. Keeps the
birds off the runway. Seems like it whouldnt be too hard to rig that up
with a motion sensor you can buy at home depot. Dunno if the deer would
get used to it or not. You neighbors (if you're unlucky enough to have
any) might not.

Justin.
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> > On Nov 12, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
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> > >
> > > Not electronic but:
> > >
> > > Years ago we strung gill net across the back of the field. 
> That's
> > > monofilament net about 8' high by 200' wide, 2" or so mesh.  Just
> > > haphazardly strung it up on sticks, bushes, young spruce or
> poplar
> > > trees.  And we netted a deer who squealed and thrashed quite a
> lot
> > > before getting loose and bouncing off into the woods.
> > >
> > > No I dunno if deer pass the word or hand tales down to younger
> > > generations or just pass on the habit of avoiding a certain spot,
> but
> > > ever since, the deer come out of the woods and walk along the
> north
> > > side of the field, turn south and graze along the east side of
> the
> > > field and then go back into the woods.  They haven't hit the
> gardens
> > > for years.
> > >
> > > But then there's also the coffee cans full of stale piss we set
> out
> > > near the back corners of the gardens, too.
> > >
> > > Here, porcupines and (in some years) coons do more harm than
> deer.
> > > People just a couple or so miles away, however, simple can't have
> a
> > > garden unless it's copletely surrounded by a 10' fence.
> > >
> > > Back to the original question:  How about a carbide cannon
> connected
> > > to infrared sensors?  Don't tell me deer will get used to *that*.
> > > There was a Japanese company selling ines meant for rice paddies
> that,
> > > IIRC, was called a "Scarer Boom" in the catalog.
> > >
> > > FWIW,
> > > - Mike
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> > > mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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