sonic animals reppelers

No hopper stopper on my bus and and I've never hit a roo. Some have em and swear by em, others have em and manage to hit everything that moves.

Adam,

I put some of those plastic "wind whistler" type thingies on the bar of my GQ over ten years ago and did numerous trips at night through Miles, Taroom, Mt Mooney etc and saw thousands of Roos off to the side of the road, but none came near me.

Maybe I was just lucky, but at under $10 I'd use them again. For the cost of a dud Pizza they're worth a go.

WTF have you got to lose?

Cheers,

Jim.

My missus has them on her X-trail and she swears by them. Reckons they even chase the sheep away :o)

I have had them on my vehicle and have not hit a roo yet, mind you I drive to the conditions, ie. if its dark and roos are around, slow down. Even if they don't repel roos at least the whistle makes then lift their heads and look at you so you can see them, so as mentioned above they are cheap so you really can't lose.
Stu

Hi,

We put Shoo Roos which are an electronic devices, on our ambulance vehicles in rural areas and the amount of animal strikes we have been involved in has dropped dramatically.

We were paying huge amounts oif money in repairs prior to fitting these.

Cheers

I have a shoo roo on my vehicle, it works well on roos, pigs, foxes, and lions and tigers and bears too..... well I haven't hit any of them since installing it anyway.
Tough call to say whether to spend the $300 or $400 on an electronic one when you can get the $5 ones from super cheap though.

I have the cheap plastic whistlers on the Jack and they do appear to work.
Not only on roo's, sheep, etc., either.

I have come across Eagles on the Stuart Highway, feeding off someone else's road kill and they appeared to "hear" my approach well before I had to brake and flew off until I passed.

They are also handy in the Metro area for Dogs, etc.

Remember to check them now and again for potential blockage and clean them out if necessary.

For a few Dollars a pair, they're work the try.

there have been a number of studies by USDA which scientifically demonstrate that sonic repellent devices do not work on vertebrates or invertebrates. Melbourne Uni tested Shoo Roo a couple of years ago and found that it did not change behaviour of kangaroos. Someone saying that they haven't hit a roo since fitting one does not represent a scientific assessment - I haven't hit a roo since fitting my new car stereo, but that doesn't mean my stereo makes an excellent roo repellent. My mate wasted $400 fitting one to his ute and hit a roo a few months later...he thought he would save money on a bullbar...big mistake...

Ive used the cheap sonic ones for years and found when driving out west around Emerald/Clermont and the roos are pretty thick, I have never hit one.
One thing though you have to clean them out pretty regularly cos they get clogged up with insects etc and dont work.

I had the little plastic ones on the vehicle a couple of years ago near Broken Hill. Made no difference at all to the roos on the roadside and a couple of times I had roos keeping pace with me on desert tracks about 15m to my left - personally I think they were just taking the mickey - roos are like that :)

Rubbish IMO, give the $8 cost to the Salvation Army instead.

Mike Harding

Bought the cheap plastic ones and they seemed to work. On the road between Bourke and Nyngan at 9.30am one jumped onto the road from the thick scrub. Hit the second one.

We had a Shu Roo on a work car in Canberra and did quite a lot of country driving. We used to turn it on during the day and the roos didn't like it at all.