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I live in a very rural location and have a family of rats in my garden who find it very easy to climb up the bird feeder pole. This baffle has proved to be the perfect solution to stopping them from stealing the bird food. I noticed that a lot of the reviews on here complain that the pre drilled holes are too small. However the holes are the right size to allow you to easily screw the small bolts into them, they then remain in place making it easier to assemble the two halves of the baffle before placing the nuts on and tightening them up. The baffle then sits perfectly on top of the supplied clamp. From start to finish it took me no more than 10 minutes to assemble. It has proven to be sturdy in use and easy to wipe clean and looks like it should last well. All in all I am very pleased with it.

Very easy to assemble and had no squirrels stealing the bird food since. The only reason I scored it down a point was that my pole was a little thicker so I had to bend the clip, but it took me about 3 mins - so would recommend

I don't know where to start with this. This is not a serious squirrel baffle by any means. Fiddly to put the cone together as it keeps fighting against you. Once the cone has been created, the way it fits the pole is the joke. Followed the video for instructions (none in the package), placed it correctly on the pole but, within 20 minutes it had been blown off the 'bracket' by a SLIGHT breeze. This happened a couple of times on the first evening. Next morning, it was on the ground again, so I replaced it on the 'bracket'. Half an hour later, one of the squirrels came to investigate it. Went up the pole twice, but stopped by the baffle. It went up a 3rd time, a bit braver now, lightly touched the rim of the baffle cone...it fell down. Squirrel did a runner about 4 meters away and came back to proceed up to the feeders as the baffle was on the floor. The issue here is the so-called bracket. it doesn't grip onto any part of the cone, the cone with a big hole in the top just balances on it. It's totally unfit for purpose. What it needs is some grommets or washers to fit the hole or, better still, a total redesign. I get the feeling this wasn't intended as a squirrel baffle and someone has just had a brainwave moment and come up with this usage idea. Total fail!! Arrived 29 Jan, refund requested 30 Jan. At the same time as requesting the refund, I ordered one of the clear domes that can be found on Amazon, a bit dearer but absolutely perfect. It arrived today and it fits tightly and no chance of it falling down without a lot of pressure.

This is the second one we have bought...not because the first one fell apart but because we had a new visitor to the feeders and not such a pretty one, either...a rather moth eaten rat! Very industrious he/she was too...and emptied the feeders as quickly as we filled them, scaring the birds away. Now....I'm all for live and let live and living eco style, like, but do draw the line at some rather revolting rat taking liberties. I know it probably has mouths to fill and all that but not over keen on a horde of rampaging rodents taking over my pergola and garden bench, thanks! I guess, at least, the owls will have a field day. Anyway....on to the product: The price is great. The cheapest we've found, hence why we didn't hestiate to grab a second one. A little fiddly to fix and hold the thing together...Himself did something with nuts, bolts and washers to get it to fit over the feeding tray but it was easy enough to adapt. So...put it in place, along with other feeders with cages around them...and waited. I did wonder whether these would all work but, sure enough, at the same time as the damn thing always arrived...talk about creature of habit....up the wall it shimmied (marvellous use for rendering on the wall....) the thing found it easy to get up to where it wanted to be....trotted along the pergola to its favourite tray and....stopped....dead....then jumped....and promptly slid off to the ground (sadly, much to mine and Himself's raucous amusement.) Undaunted....back the plucky not so little (build them big up yere in very rural Wales!) beggar came....back up the render...back along the pergola....jumped....and slid off again. At this point, Himself and I and the rest of the family settled down for a night of entertainment (we don't get out much) and, sure enough, back it came....we waited, breath baited....and it ran round and round the metal rungs of the pergola, trying to work out how it could get to those goodies....talk about frustration...I swear you could see it, writ large across its mush! it tried hanging upside down, hanging sideways, doing a kind of one front, one back leg on the rung and one front, one back leg flailing around to try to grab something...anything...but just could NOT get to it. Much aggrieved, it turned its attention to the fat ball feeders. Rubbing its mangy twitching forepaws together, you could see it thinking that this was going to be a doddle! A few bars weren't going to stop Roland the Resolute getting to this delish dish of lard, worms and insects....handed to it on a plate or what? So, off it totters, along the rungs of the pergola, as mentioned before, and leaps onto the feeder. Success! So far, that is....dozy Roger the Dogged, much excited and all agog with its seeming victory, thrust its scabby face into the bars and....got stuck! Yep....sooooo close to the treasure and yet...sooooo far away. It struggled for a while, leaving the bemused and very amused spectators pretty breathless but finally managed to release its head rather suddenly....which meant, once again, it found itself on the ground again! Now, Rupert the Wretched is left foraging for what is on the floor. I swear the birds feel sorry for it as they seem to throw stuff down so it isn't left hungry! All in all...a jolly good buy!

Assembly holes to self fit fixings are hugely undersized and difficult to ream out Amazon should withdraw this product until supplier has correct specification available Otherwise durable materials and would be excellent ! Purchased June 2024

Works effectively in keeping squirrels off trees, if used properly. Can be cut to work on larger trees, but only up to about 12cm diameter. Reasonably robust.

This works temporarily but when we get a storm or even a strong wind (which happens more frequently now) the bolts come off scattering in the garden. Being black they are somewhat difficult to find so you end up losing them and not being able to put the thing together again!

Squirrels still managed to gradually shrink its size be eating the rim from underneath. Left untouched for awhile, they managed to chew it away down to half its width. Eventually threw it away and bought a clear plastic anti-squirrel dome.

I actually use this in a tree to keep my cat from escaping the yard. But it works great. Not sure where the negative reviews are coming from. Basically exactly as advertised.

Je n’ai pas revu d’écureuil dans mes mangeoires mais ils ont grugé le tour du cylindre (il devrait être en métal).

The Squirrel Baffle comes without any instructions on how to assemble it or how to use it, none whatsoever. You have to figure it out on your own. It is shipped tightly wrapped, like an ice cream cone. When you unwrap it, it is very difficult to keep it open so that you can assemble it. Once you manage to do so, with a lot of frustration, it keeps an uneven look. I bought it to stop squirrels from climbing up the pole where I keep the seeds for the birds. Sadly, it doesn't work. The squirrels still managed to climb the pole with very little effort. I installed the baffle about 5 feet above the ground so that the squirrels wouldn't be able to jump on top of it, but it made not difference. Although the squirrels couldn't jump on top of it, they still managed to climb up the pole and over it with little difficulty. In other words, this product is useless for the purpose advertised. I returned it for a refund. Not recommended.

The holes were too small for the bolts - suggest you drill them out. Suggest you use your own Philips screwdriver and use a wrench to tighten the bolts. As others stated the clamp was too big for my bird feeder holder rod. Suggest taping it on. The squirrel cone hole was large enough to fall down past the clamp. I cut a tennis ball to go over the clamp which solved the issue. So far it has been effective for keeping the chipmunk from the feeder.

This baffle is very minimal. The material is thin, the diameter is on the small size. The clamp is very minimal and will require some kind of spacer to fill in the difference in the size or the baffle centre hole and the pole clamp. I used a a plastic,cut up, honey boodle i found in the recycle bin. The baffle flops around in the wind, this may be design? I have it installed and waiting to see if the dam squirrels will slide off when they jump on it? Here's hopping they do.