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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 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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2012 - Volume #36, Issue #5