Crow banger

clonagh

There seems to be a crow banger going off in my locality since mid November. It's not shooting as it's too regular and comes from the same direction. Currently theres a bang every minute or so. Any idea why its going off this time of the year and how much longer will it be happening? My wife works nights (nurse) and is getting it hard to sleep...Thanks.

Mad_maxx

clonagh wrote: »

There seems to be a crow banger going off in my locality since mid November. It's not shooting as it's too regular and comes from the same direction. Currently theres a bang every minute or so. Any idea why its going off this time of the year and how much longer will it be happening? My wife works nights (nurse) and is getting it hard to sleep...Thanks.

its expected that those are turned off at night , not unreasonable to suggest it to the farmer , should be sufficient to keep it on from 8 am to circa 8pm

i live beside a grain farmer , he sowed his winter barely very late in 2019 ( december ) and only left the crow banger in for about three weeks and always turned it off around 6 pm

this year he sowed in september and didnt use one at all but put tape between ESB poles , only left them up for about three weeks , its to stop the crows from eating the freshly sown seed

_Brian

Mad_maxx wrote: »

its expected that those are turned off at night , not unreasonable to suggest it to the farmer , should be sufficient to keep it on from 8 am to circa 8pm

Night shift workers sleep days though.

OP, I don’t think there is much you can do. I worked nights for 13 years and daytime life goes on, noisily mostly.

NcdJd

clonagh wrote: »

There seems to be a crow banger going off in my locality since mid November. It's not shooting as it's too regular and comes from the same direction. Currently theres a bang every minute or so. Any idea why its going off this time of the year and how much longer will it be happening? My wife works nights (nurse) and is getting it hard to sleep...Thanks.

Only way is to take a walk about and you’ll eventually find it. We used to use bangers here years ago. Complete waste of time and gas as the pigeons would get used to them after a number of days. We'd only use it for a few days until we got someone in to take out some of tge pigeons.

If you can find the owner you could have a chat with him and ask him if he could change the direction of the banger.

One of the lads locally had one here I had to put on the radio in my room as I was up at 4.30 every morning and was in bed early.

clonagh

Thanks Maxx, should have said it's only on during the day (which is when she's sleeping). Thought it might be seed related alright but I assume the seed would be established by now..

TooOldBoots

If all else fails remember that it can't run without Gas

NcdJd

TooOldBoots wrote: »

If all else fails remember that it can't run without Gas

There was a mornings I went outside after connecting up a full jar of gas and when you lift it it would be empty. Someone would swap the jar in the middle of the night for their cooker or heater I would suspect

ruwithme

Old gas banger here from my fathers time. The mischief in me takes her out of the shed every few years to see she's still firing.

Usually at night (again the mischief) i let her fire,only a couple of times mind,the bang of her in the dead of the night is ferocious. There wouldn't be a dog in the country that wouldn't hear the ruckus from other dogs barking in the distance.

NcdJd

ruwithme wrote: »

Old gas banger here from my fathers time. The mischief in me takes her out of the shed every few years to see she's still firing.

Usually at night (again the mischief) i let her fire,only a couple of times mind,the bang of her in the dead of the night is ferocious. There wouldn't be a dog in the country that wouldn't hear the ruckus from other dogs barking in the distance.

Can you still get the flint for it ruwithme ? Is it a blue and red one ? The last one we had got stolen unfortunately.

Base price

ruwithme wrote: »

Old gas banger here from my fathers time. The mischief in me takes her out of the shed every few years to see she's still firing.

Usually at night (again the mischief) i let her fire,only a couple of times mind,the bang of her in the dead of the night is ferocious. There wouldn't be a dog in the country that wouldn't hear the ruckus from other dogs barking in the distance.

I laughing cause my late Uncle used to do the very same thing. He'd take the bottle of gas from the cooker and disappear into the night with it, a few minutes later BANG and every dog in the county would be barking.

Mad_maxx

clonagh wrote: »

Thanks Maxx, should have said it's only on during the day (which is when she's sleeping). Thought it might be seed related alright but I assume the seed would be established by now..

my mistake , i assumed this was an all night nuisance

ruwithme

NcdJd wrote: »

Can you still get the flint for it ruwithme ? Is it a blue and red one ? The last one we had got stolen unfortunately.

I don't know about the flint,as she works everytime, she's a yellow coloured banger.

Justjens

Farmer local to me is being pestered with starlings and has a banger in his yard, going off every minute during the day for the last month, although he does (I think) change direction occasionally.

Weather has changed now so it's down wind

Can the volume of these things be varied now, don't think starlings eating a bit of meal need it at full volume?

newholland mad

clonagh wrote: »

Thanks Maxx, should have said it's only on during the day (which is when she's sleeping). Thought it might be seed related alright but I assume the seed would be established by now..

Id imagine it's oilseed rape its on. The pigeons are playing hell on it this year and the worst part is they will stay at it until it gets ahead of them in March