Free Bird Spikes Information

[meddesign]

If you store your aircraft outside or in a hanger where there are birds this information might be of interest.  Lots of pictures so it might be slow to load.  The Prop Spike is really easy and very effective.

 

http://www.proppastie.com/Bird Spikes.html

 

[carusoam]

I immediately raised my lighter app and waived it in the air!

Different Free Bird, I guess....

Was I the only one???

Best regards,

-a-

[MB65E]

FREEBIRD!!!!!!!!!!

Nope,

-Matt

[Hank]

I immediately raised my lighter app and waived it in the air!

Different Free Bird, I guess....

Was I the only one???

Best regards,

-a-

I did it the old fashioned, dangerous way, with an exposed flame. Waving a cell phone in the air just doesn't do much for me . . . .

[Mooneymite]

My Mooney is hangared 99% of the time, but when tied down outside, I just put a fake-green-snake on one of the horizontal stabilizers. This probably wouldn't work long-term, but it sure keeps the bird droppins off for a day, or two.

[yvesg]

I got fed up cleaning the tail this week-end. Made one of those spike things. Here is a picture.

Yves

[DonMuncy]

Yves,

Yours is a lot simpler than the one I designed, and should work well. What did you use for the "spikes". Do you use a ladder to install and de-install it.

[Marauder]

What a timely thread. I have been evicted from my hangar while they pave the ramp area. I flew the plane back from its annual on Saturday night and tied it down outside. By Sunday mid-morning, I had a full scale bird condo in my tail cone and enough crap on the tail to lift the nose wheel off of the ground!

I'm going to try the Cheap Bast$&d deluxe vertical stab anti-bird barricade described above. I also bought a $2.50 foam pillow from Walmart (and I mean a full size pillow), wrapped it in a garbage bag to stuff in the cowl opening. I paid another $6 for seat foam cushion and cut it up into smaller pieces to put in ZipLoc bags of various sizes to wedge into the various orifices.

It took me almost an hour to get the nesting material out of the tail. You got to hand it to birds. They work harder than most of us

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[scottfromiowa]

I pulled a Robin's nest four times before she gave up the ghost. She would sit on the deck rail and chirp at me as I told her "Find a tree", My stereo speaker (white) was a muddy poopy mess...

[fantom]

What a timely thread.......

I'm going to try the Cheap Bast$&d deluxe vertical stab anti-bird barricade described above. I also bought a $2.50 foam pillow from Walmart (and I mean a full size pillow), wrapped it in a garbage bag to stuff in the cowl opening. I paid another $6 for seat foam cushion and cut it up into smaller pieces to put in ZipLoc bags of various sizes to wedge into the various orifices.

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I'm soooo CB impressed with your creativity, Prez.

[rbridges]

 I had a full scale bird condo in my tail cone and enough crap on the tail to lift the nose wheel off of the ground!

 

 

I don't know why but that made me laugh.  

[yvesg]

Yves,Yours is a lot simpler than the one I designed, and should work well. What did you use for the "spikes". Do you use a ladder to install and de-install it.

The spikes are made of electrical fence wire that I cut. Each part is about 2.5 inches long. Yes I need something to climb on to put back or remove. I decided to keep a 3 steps ladder in the trunk of the car for this purpose.

I also had to open an inspection panel in the tail to remove a nest. There were 3 chicks in there that will not survive. After I plugged the holes in the tail early spring, the bird found a way via the hole where the retractable step would rest in the up position. I had to make a plug for there too yesterday. I had hay all the way from the acçess hole to the pack of the tail... quite a mess...

Yves

[Marauder]

I'm soooo CB impressed with your creativity, Prez.

I certainly have an image to uphold... And I a certainly not going to be a lame duck president while I am in office. Thanks for the vote of confidence.

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