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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:42 pm
by Hamin' X
Orchard Cannons are the wepon of choice in the Eastern Oregon orchards.
Of course, your marina neigbors may not be to happy.http://www.banthecannons.com
Rich---Hamin' X---N7ZH
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:55 pm
by They Theirs
Hamin' X
Will the Ducks fit in the Barrel?
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:58 pm
by Hamin' X
They Theirs wrote:Hamin' X
Will the Ducks fit in the Barrel?
Only the young ones, unless you want to pluck the older ones. 
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:58 am
by Chip Hindes
Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas anchorage is directly adjacent to Bush Key Bird Sanctuary, an island maybe 100 yards long by 50 yards wide, and home to something approaching 25,000 birds at any given time. When we pulled into the anchorage we waved to a guy on a 50 foot ketch stringing CDs on his stanchions and lifelines. Must have had 15 or 20 CDs; we were wondering whether he was sacrificing his music collection as a bird deterrent or he had saved up all those free 30 days of AOL ones most of us toss. We anchored next to the ketch and when the sun was right the stiff breeze provided a flashing light show for us. We have pictures of the birds roosting on the lifelines with the CDs flapping in the breeze just under their feet.
Within an hour of anchoring we had quite a number of unwelcome visitors. The Mac lifleines are too skinny and whippy for them to be able to stand on, but the bow pulpit was a popular roost. I suppose far enough away from the cockpit that we couldnt reach them, and of course anything we could throw would have been considered litter. Aided by the stiff breeze, they had a knack for letting go direclty onto the bottom end of the furled genny and drum.
Mate fashioned what she considered some really scary predatory bird-like sculptures of aluminum foil and wired them to horizontal rail of the pulpit. Flapping in the breeze, they actually worked for a brief period in that the birds couldnt land directly on them, and it fact it was quite comical watching them avoid the sculptures on the horizontal part and try to land on the sloped part of the rail, but unable to hold on quite tightly enough they would slide down the rail sideways, flapping all the while to keep their balance. After a few hours, just like most inactive deterrents, they learned the evil tinfoil sculptures werent going to do them any harm, so they would simply ignore them and land right next to them. I believe we got some photos of that as well; Ill try to find and post them.
We never did solve the problem, so I put the sock on the genny and we lived with it for the three days we were there.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:38 am
by Catigale
...yet another justification for that Barrett 50...
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:32 pm
by NautiMoments
I think Hamin'X is onto something with the orchard cannon. It looks like it might serve as dual purpose with Jet skiers as well.
What range do you think it gets.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:53 pm
by DLT
NautiMoments,
Unless I'm missing something, I think it just makes noise...
I kinda like the idea of a potato cannon... Birds, jetskis, etc. beware...
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:06 pm
by They Theirs
Git-R-Done!
A projectile can be shot over 300 yards with this cannon. (Potato)
Potato Cannon
bird preventers
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:44 pm
by Night Sailor
I've been having a similar problem for six months. Other people on my dock have tried owls, snakes and toy dogs, which didn't work.
A big bird broke my windex twice before I got the new one with the spike on it. I thought I had won until it started roosting at nigh on my bimini cover, then puking all over the cockpit. You can imagine what partially digested crane or heron catch is like on your helm. Any way, I fashioned spikes from coated wire coat hangers and secured them so they pointed up like a picket fence across the top of my bimini cover. This bird landed on them and bent them down, then puked twice as much as before. After a month of this, I tied a lenght of line over the top of the spikes, so it had to contend iwth the line and the spikes upon landing. It's been a week now, and my cockpit is still clean. But I'm not sure if it's the very low temperatures and high winds we've had that did it, or it gave up and I won. My next trick would be to plant some shiny pinwheels on a stick on the bimini and boom. They've kept my neighors vegetables bird free this summer, but then the wind has to blow for them to move, and maybe "big bird" wouldn't be scared just annoyed. Now, with fingers crossed, and waiting for the cold to go away.....
