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Sorry, I'll whip out straight away and take em off.
Close,? One was parraelling a fence that had a grid, went straight across the front of me at the grid but I didn't see it bar for the last second.
Might, just might mind you, have been trying to get away?
Nargh, bugger it, I'll just leave em on.
I'll let you know as soon as I hit one.
Yes, a lot of truckies around here dip when they see Roos. They report the same behaviour.
Nah, don't mind that at all. Your vehicle and your choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by phill 130
And hopefully you'll never have the misfortune of a Roo strike.
Back to the original post - mate - that sucks!
Hopefully it will be fixed quickly and you'll be back on the road again soon.
In the meantime, save those pennies for some steel
Bar work.
Maybe because they've got less light they slow down :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
I have no trouble introducing skip to the big paddock in the sky, but I'm not a bogan ****wit that goes deliberately trying to hit them.
Locomotive drivers round here have similar experiences - and they do have lots of experience as there isn't much you can do in a loco to avoid stock, roos, deer, or even, unfortunately, koalas.Quote:
Originally Posted by dero
Dip the headlight (current regs require it should not be turned off) for less trauma.
The Placebo effect works for me.
I had a pair of Shoo Roo plastic whistles on my Landcruiser bulbar, I took the bullbar off to do some work, went for a test drive and hit and killed two roos at once as the jumped across the road together.
have never hit a roo with those $5.00 suckers on the car.
The kangaroos ***** their ears up and jump across about 50m earlier
Here's the ultimate marketing when you think about it...
It's a product that looks like it may do something, it is cheap and easy to mould.
It's then sold for sub $10.00 in shops...
And everyone that has them says "It was only $10.00 couldn't hurt."
Perfect marketing!
Based on the arguments put forth so far for their proven benefits:
- D2s are Roo magnets
- Tomb raider defenders are already a roo repellant as I did 100,000+ km and never came close to hitting one.
- D4s don't attract roos if you have a plastic hair comb in the glovebox. I nearly hit one when I first got the vehicle, but since placing a plastic comb in the glovebox I haven't come close.
Here's a point or 2 about Roo behaviour...
They either sit and look or take off.
They can hear your car coming anyway!
Even when they had seen the vehicle, and it was driving through the mob at less than 10km/h we still had 3 jump *into* the side of the vehicle...
The whistles and electronic versions claim to make a noise that drives the roo to head away from the noise.
We parked a vehicle facing a mob and turned the device (electronic) on... Not one roo bothered to acknowledge it. Let alone move away.
Holding the whistle version to mouth and blowing through it didn't attract their attention either.
We've tested these a lot up here (lots of roos around) and any benefit would be viable...
I'll have to start taking photos of all the buckled bullbars and bumpers on cars with whistles attached!!!
I travel through roo country every time I go anywhere. I probably hit one about every two years, as often as not in daylight. The last one I hit that did any damage hit the county just behind the LH back wheel. I did not even see him - I was doing about 15kph at the time, letting his mates cross the road in front of me, in broad daylight.
Today, going into town at 0800-0900 and returning at 1500-1600, I probably saw about twenty on the road or the edges of it. They seem to be about a lot more as thedrought starts to bite.
I would not even consider running a vehicle in this area without a roo bar if I hadf any choice.
John
I like the way you think. Where do I buy one of these combs from? and do I need to buy a glovebox?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
You are quiet right in saying "it is only $10 it couldn't hurt"
I have never cast a skeptical eye over these type of products but I think you are correct and they deserve closer inspection.
A quick search on Google Scholar does not give much away, Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies, and Rat-kangaroos - Google Books was the best I could get on Page 301 it looks at the flight response of the Kangaroo. Page 309 basically says that the increased flightiness of a kangaroo increases the likelihood of a vehicle collision. Therefore does a comb in a glove box provide a soothing sound? or does it increase the flightiness of an animal.
I could find evidence that there was not enough research or data to verify if these type of systems work.