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Sound Blast Keeps Deer Out Of Garden
After years of finding carrots, bean blossoms and other garden produce disappear when he wasn’t looking, Elmer Haux found a way to scare off the culprits, deer and antelope.
“I combined a motion sensor with a small radio,” says Haux. “When the sensor detects a deer, the radio comes on at loud volume with a blas
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Sound Blast Keeps Deer Out Of Garden MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous After years of finding carrots bean blossoms and other garden produce disappear when he wasn’t looking Elmer Haux found a way to scare off the culprits deer and antelope “I combined a motion sensor with a small radio ” says Haux “When the sensor detects a deer the radio comes on at loud volume with a blast and the deer run ” The sonic blaster is simplicity at its best The motion sensor is mounted on a post near the garden and plugged into a nearby outlet A radio enclosed in a plastic bag for protection from the weather is hung on the same post “I turned the radio up real loud When a deer antelope or other animal is sensed the radio blasts and scares the animal off ” says Haux He has used the deterrent system for two years and it continues to work fine and not only for deer “My boss stopped by and I was showing it to him As he walked over to it the radio came on ” says Haux “He jumped It’s really loud ” Haux has an outlet close to his garden but he suspects the same system could work with a solar charger and 12-volt battery and radio Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Elmer Haux Box 556 Shaunavon Sask Canada S0N 2M0 ph 306 297-2952
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