Thread: Do not like! Side effects of owning Defender

Having to remember to check that the rear windows haven't started winding themselves down.

Originally Posted by El Rey

Cheers for the tips.

Figs are way up high in a tree and all over the place - it's too tall to climb and too big to get at all the fruit everywhere.
(The fruit is also not ripe, but that doesn't stop the flying foxes)
(Also fruits all year long)

Have a car cover, but a car cover covered in poop is harder to clean than a vehicle, and becomes harder and more unpleasant to put away each time.

Cat...

Sugar - again I can barely reach the middle levels of the foliage with my hardest throw. Getting sugar up there would be problematic.

Yep - not injuring them - just trying to create an unpleasant chili-smelling and redolent environment they don't want to visit.

We had a problem with Flying Foxes at my work and employed a tree climber to put those amber flashing lights that they use on roadworks that come on after dark. A tree with a canopy of around 10m wide had 4 lights. Reduced the problem by over 80%.

Not sure of the legality of upsetting an endangered species but a hell of a lot less poo on the ground and seats under the tree.

Have to change the batteries every few months. When the figs are not on the tree the numbers drop to bugger all so you only need to do it when the fruit is ripe.

Told my neighbour as he has a Banksia tree and they come in to eat the flowers which have a lot of nectar. Two lights no bats.

Hope this helps

Originally Posted by Chenz

We had a problem with Flying Foxes at my work and employed a tree climber to put those amber flashing lights that they use on roadworks that come on after dark. A tree with a canopy of around 10m wide had 4 lights. Reduced the problem by over 80%.

Not sure of the legality of upsetting an endangered species but a hell of a lot less poo on the ground and seats under the tree.

Have to change the batteries every few months. When the figs are not on the tree the numbers drop to bugger all so you only need to do it when the fruit is ripe.

Told my neighbour as he has a Banksia tree and they come in to eat the flowers which have a lot of nectar. Two lights no bats.

Hope this helps

I wonder if hanging some solar powered Christmas lights around the place would deter the bats?

Originally Posted by Chenz

We had a problem with Flying Foxes at my work and employed a tree climber to put those amber flashing lights that they use on roadworks that come on after dark. A tree with a canopy of around 10m wide had 4 lights. Reduced the problem by over 80%.
Hope this helps

Cheers mate. Problem is that this tree is on our neighbor's property. I've done my chili shenanigans when they're not around, and there's no real evidence of it. But some flashing lights through their windows - I guess I can ask and see what they say.

I actually went out one night and tried using my high-powered tactical light set to strobe, to drive them away. Believe me, if you looked directly into this light you would become immediately disoriented - but these little buggers just turned their heads away until the light went out, then back to business.

Maybe actually up in the tree is another matter.

Why don't you fit a sensor light so it comes on and shines on the vehicle if a flying fox comes near it? Maybe one of those cheap solar lights. Jaycar has reasonable quality ones for a fair price. The light might shoo them away. We have one in our carport and its rare to get birds in there at night now.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Having to remember to check that the rear windows haven't started winding themselves down.

Tell me this isnt true???? ..... the only Defender I see all the time is my Dad's, and I'm always saying "Pa its ****ing rain, your rear windows are down" (again and again) just about 20 - 50 mm....

Regards
Daz

Originally Posted by Chenz

We had a problem with Flying Foxes at my work and employed a tree climber to put those amber flashing lights that they use on roadworks that come on after dark. A tree with a canopy of around 10m wide had 4 lights. Reduced the problem by over 80%.

Not sure of the legality of upsetting an endangered species but a hell of a lot less poo on the ground and seats under the tree.

Have to change the batteries every few months. When the figs are not on the tree the numbers drop to bugger all so you only need to do it when the fruit is ripe.

Told my neighbour as he has a Banksia tree and they come in to eat the flowers which have a lot of nectar. Two lights no bats.

Hope this helps

Off topic but...
I was in Mackey (QLD) and we had parked a work vehicle under a big tree in a carpark, on dusk, the driver slammed the drivers door..... the vehicle, myself and my co-worker were covered in bat poo .... the smell was horrific.....

Regards
Daz

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

Tell me this isnt true???? ..... the only Defender I see all the time is my Dad's, and I'm always saying "Pa its ****ing rain, your rear windows are down" (again and again) just about 20 - 50 mm....

Regards
Daz

I drove back from Albany during the school holidays in my MY2016 and was cursing the door seals on the rear door causing wind noise in my ear. When I got home I discovered that the window was cracked open...