Customer Reviews for ScareCrow Sprinkler Motion Activated Animal Deterrent

Site said fast shipping but it is anything but.. going on 2 weeks still waiting. deer and dogs devasting my garden, I should have went with ebay-get same price and way faster shipping

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5 of 9 people found this review helpful

I assembled according to instructions, but unit leaked immediately. Motion detection was poor. I called customer service. They are so nice and gladly refunded the whole amount. I can't say enough about this awesome company. They stand strongly behind their products. They didn't even charge me for shipping. I will continue to do business with them!

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13 of 13 people found this review helpful

One of the two (2) units I purchased leaks. A 50% failure rate.

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8 of 10 people found this review helpful

We have a pond next to our back yard and ducks have recently started invading us. The ScareCrow worked for about 20 minutes and then the ducks just ignored it and kept coming on our property. We have tried different locations and settings. Nothing seems to make any difference. This device may work for other animals, but not for ducks.

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

Approx.60 lbs psi of pressure spays water approx. 15 feet (not 45 ft as specified).

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12 of 14 people found this review helpful

Returned both, neither worked. Customer service was great!

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

I bought this to keep small birds away from my pool but it doe not always detect them and when it does go off, it dose not scare them. Also it kicks on about every 5 min or so even though nothing is there to activate it. I might use it in my garden as it does scare the dog so at least it will keep her out. I think this item is over priced for what it is and how it works.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Although very ingenious, this sprinkler does not work well for small animal. It is difficult to regulate. If the sensitivity is high, even passing car by the street trigger it.

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

Would give this product a 5 star review if they lasted more than a season. This is the fourth ScareCrow we have bought so far. They work wonderful and can be adjusted for distance and sensitivity. I use two in the garden and they keep the deer out. Problem is only one of the four has lasted more than a year. I remove the battery when I put them up for the winter and store them inside out of the weather. In the spring when I take them out of storage they inevitably fail. I've reset them as instructed and even put brand new batteries in them. I'm a retired engineer so I pride my self on being able to repair most things. Problem with these is, short of replacing the motion sensor nothing can be done. Yes I've adjusted water pressure to numerous psi.

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27 of 29 people found this review helpful

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

fun to play with,- you really should read their instructions first, and put on the stickers. if possible, all four corners of your house should have one. In my case, one corner is too close to neighbors. I sent email to the maker for info on extension pipes - no response. reduced sensitivity to exclude street traffic and wind in trees. it works for dogs, cats, and neighbors. have not noticed any more deer damage yet.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Overall, it appears a little cheaply made, but it works well. So far it has kept the grandkids out of the garden, scared at least a couple of deer away and shot me directly in the face at point black range when I forgot it was on, O yeh, I also got the neighbor on his riding lawnmower. Now, Let's see if it holds up.

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26 of 28 people found this review helpful

I've had the Scare Crow for a little over a month now and the short answer is it works! Now the details: I have a cat problem! Its not that I don't like them, it's that they spray, poop, and fight each other, and I guess I'm the ring master. I've tried all the deterrence, red pepper and all the other smells that don't work. So I installed the Scare Crow and cleaned my garden of poop, i.e. the cat box! Each morning at about the same time the Scare Crow would go off. This went on for about a week. I inspected the cat box, (carefully) :$, and no poop. Hurray whatever is growing that should smell nice!!! You will need to tighten the hose to the Scare Crow a couple of times to stop the leaks but with a good garden hose that can stand the nonstop pressure and in my case in AZ the heat you will see results. Oh and as a bonus in my case no Dove Crap on my patio. If I can review again I'll post the results after a year of ownership.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Works great, once issue of water dripping from vertical pipe. All fittings had continuous drips until I added Teflon tape to the male side of the fitting. The vertical pipe's washer was too small and had to be replace with larger washer to stop the drips. Once done all worked fine. It's an excellent deterrent to door to door salesmen also! Overall, your product gets a 4-1/2 out of 5 rating. I would recommend to all.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Seems to be working well. The neighbor says her dog is scared to go near our front yard now when she walks him--good! Operates just as promised--even the distance and sensitivity. Would have liked a sturdier, longer spike to hold steady when ground becomes wet.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

For the first time in two years, my yard is dog-mess free.  Imagine my glee when I heard the Scarecrow kick in, a yelp/bark and then the silence that followed. The only problem is I need two more to cover my side yard. I plan on chaining a few of these together. My cousin did get a surprise when he came to visit, but that is collateral damage. Great buy, much cheaper than a fence and just as effective.

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9 of 10 people found this review helpful

I recently purchased the sprinkler about a month ago. I think it works great. It senses most animals...and people... from quite a distance. It even sprays when cars are driving on the road nearby. A downside to this is the battery lasts only about a month. The only problem is that the sprinkler has a hard time detecting smaller animals like baby bunnies. I watch out the window and see the bunnies gorging themselves on my lilies while the sprinkler sits idly by. I have the sprinkler set at about 3 yards away from the garden and the sensitivity is up to 7. Overall, this purchase is definitely worth it. Most rabbits have now left my lilies alone and are now after some of my other plants, so I may soon have to purchase another sprinkler!!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

For the first time in years, our garden is growing unmolested by the critters. I was skeptical, but this thing really works, and I'd recommend it to all who have problems with animals in their garden areas. And the best part; no harm to anything: it's just water!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful