Customer Reviews for ScareCrow Sprinkler Motion Activated Animal Deterrent

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4.4 of 5 stars
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  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Too early to tell

    By Barry on 04/09/2013

    Verified Purchase

    I'm still trying to work with the unit. I have some kind of varmint digging up my garden. The scarecrow didn't deter whatever it is. I think it may be Armadillos, since I have seen them in the yard a lot. I moved the scarecrow closer to the garden, hoping this would help. I also changed the battery as it has already discharged after 2 weeks. If this doesn't work, I'm thinking about returning it.

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    16 of 18 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Trying to save my Garden

    By Jim on 03/11/2014

    Verified Purchase

    I have bought two of these and they work fairly well. We have squirrels and birds that eat everything in our garden. The ScareCrow sprinkler does a fair job of keeping them out...BUT the adjustment for sensitivity is VERY POOR. we have to have it at full sensitivity to pick up the preditor approach and because of that even with a little breaze it goes off too much.

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    13 of 14 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Scarecrow

    By Snitz on 06/25/2014

    Verified Purchase

    This item does scare deer. But it leaks around the washers. For the money high quality high pressure rubber washers should be used not cheep hard plastic ones. As water is not cheap I may still return if I can not solve this issue! Also the stake should be longer so it does not work loose in wet ground.

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    8 of 8 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Battery replacement problem

    By Linda on 08/14/2017

    I liked the sprinkler. It was quite effective in keeping the deer from eating my flowers, but after a couple of months the battery died. When I went to replace it, I discovered that it is a 4 pack with a wire attached. I cannot find a replacement like that anywhere, not even at Batteries Plus. Why don't you sell them? I have two other ones that are a bit different, and they both used 9V batteries.

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    8 of 8 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Pretty Good

    By Terrie on 02/17/2014

    Verified Purchase

    My challenge is attaching it to the ground. I live in a dry area and the plastic is too flimsy to be shoved into the hard ground. My bucket with sands and rocks is not as stable as I like and I am still figuring out how to position it and move it and not have it knock itself over. It seems to work in the little area I have it deployed in, but moving it about is my next goal.

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    5 of 5 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    ScareCrow Sprinkler

    By Dave on 08/31/2014

    Verified Purchase

    I purchased two ScareCrow sprinklers two weeks ago. One works fine, the other does not work at all. I also have a concern about how they work. You have to choose whether you want to protect against small animals OR large animals. If you adjust for large animals it will miss small animals and vice versa. That isn't clear when reviewing item description.

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    5 of 5 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    ScareCrow Sprinkler

    By Virginia on 09/07/2014

    Verified Purchase

    Sensor is hard to control, if you set it too high it will go off with just a motion of a car on a road 50 feet away, set it too low it doesn't go off at all.

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    5 of 5 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    ScareCrow

    By Jim on 10/08/2014

    Verified Purchase

    ScareCrow worked for a week, then stopped working. The eye quite working, you had to touch the eye and it worked but if you waved your hand in front of it it didn't work. Sara at Contech has been a big help, she is sending me a new one.

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    5 of 5 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Squirrel Deterrent

    By Ralph on 09/24/2014

    Verified Purchase

    I got this product for my legally blind 94yr old father-in-law, a retired golf course superintendent, who still maintains a putting green in his back yard. The squirrels had dug numerous holes in his lawn and green over the summer and the ScareCrow Sprinkler was our attempt to halt this behavior. We used the one sprinkler to protect the green and have made numerous adjustments to the settings and the placement of the sprinkler with marginal success. The number of squirrel diggings on the green have been reduced, but not stopped. I am considering raising the sprinkler up off the ground several feet and then angling it down slightly to see if that works better or purchasing another unit to have a little better coverage.

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    4 of 4 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    hmmm

    By Frances on 05/25/2014

    Verified Purchase

    I purchased two scarecrows to deter deer from my yard. Took weeks to get my son to install one - not a difficult job at all. However, my biggest complaint is the spray is too high and did not bother my medium sized dog. Perhaps we just need to read the manual on how to lower spray so it really would deter unwanted animals. So, read the manual when you get the product. Got one for my daughter's yard also to scare cats, so need to find answer to spray hight. Otherwise eager to see if it really works.

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    3 of 5 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Scarecrow Sprinkler

    By Anonymous on 07/17/2013

    Verified Purchase

    Motion portion works as advertised, but the actual sprinkler head adjustment will not stay in lowest position. Have two others from 1 year ago and the sprinkler mechanism (though the same) seems to be of better quality. Would not recommend buying this product as others are available.

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    2 of 3 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    ScareCrow Sprinkler - just ok

    By Bill on 07/03/2014

    Verified Purchase

    My problem is with groundhogs. They ate all my seedlings down to nothing immediately after planting. I replanted and installed the ScareCrow. The scarecrow worked great for about 6 weeks. After that the groundhog(s) learned that it was only getting wet and to him/her it was well worth the price for some delicious veggies. This product probably works great for everything else but it didn't work for me for very long.

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    2 of 2 people found this review helpful

  • 3 of 5 Stars

    Scare crow sprinkler

    By John on 07/14/2014

    Worked really well on my wife. Arrived late in the season for the corn so we'll have to hold final judgement until next year when we try again. I think the theory is great and would add a noisemaker to it. The range seems somewhat limited compared to other similar devices.

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