Shoo roo

[Muddy999]

Promted by a post in General chit chat and a number of roo strikes about here recently (3 between the wife and I, about 5 between a few mates...and we are meant to be in drought.) Does anyone have a shoo roo fitted or have experience with them? Does it work or is it just another hiclone. I am ok in the hilux, but the missus drives a buzz box and it is hard to fit a five poster to that.

Cheers,
Muddy

[Macca177]

Hey, with the shoo roo i fit them to all my trucks and cars... not one has come back to me and said that they hit a roo! if they have i dont know about it.

They are worth the money in my experince.

[up2nogood]

That the electric version, or those little plastic whistles?

Does anyone have the little plastic whistles?

[Hoonz]

my shoo roo = big black steel bullbar

[up2nogood]

Yeah, but they're a bitch to weld to a Barina.

Actually, come to think of it, we DID weld a dirty big five poster to my brothers SD1 Rover........

[RaginRover]

in drought the roos come to the road becuse the moisture forms on the road at night when it cools and trickles to the sides and green "pick" weeds form just on the side of the road.

The come there to get some food and a tiny amount of water.

You see a lot more road kill in drought than in good times, when there is heaps of feed and water in the fields they stay off the road

Tom

[Chucky]

I have one of those plastic whistle thingys, For $3.95 I thought what the heck, and the only roos I saw on a trip from Brisvegas to Melbourne were running away. I have heaps of wallabys near my place and when I am in the wifes car you see them almost everynight, but yet to come across them when I am driving my car.
Just my opion, but I reckon they might just work.

[gurumon]

brother in law does a fair bit of long distance at night...

his comany had shoo roo's fitted to the fleet cars after several roo strikes....

he doesn't particularly like his - but the company wants it on and working for insurance.

problem seems to be - normally they see you coming and get out of the way.... or they hop along the side of the road, very occasionally you'll find a psycho roo who'll jump into you.

when they get hit with the shoo roo it drives them mental and they randomly jump in all directions.

it's one of those things thats hard to quantify - i've never hit a roo in over 10 years of driving and i've never had a shoo roo fitted. if i drive another 10 years with a shoo roo fitted and without hitting one - does that mean the shoo roo saved me?

ymmv

[tukadafoonday]

i mowed down one in the 40... 3 thuds one from bullbar then then 2 diffs... i think the best thing to do is trade the barina

for a 40... then no damage.. unless they jump into the side of the old girl.

[Muddy999]

We have had the small black ones fitted and we still had them launch in front of us...they clogged with dust real easy as well and fell off after a week. We have a particularly psycho 'model' of roo down here they hit the panels as much as the front. Two utes and a sedan damaged at work by side impact roo strikes.

Stay Safe,
Muddy

[Carl Coight]

SPOTLIGHT AND 243
That will fuk em!!!!

[madmel]

Muddy,

Funny you say that, when I lived in Broken Hill and made many a night run back to Melbourne, of the 13 roos I collected, I only hit one the rest hit me on the sides of the car.

So I can concur with the Psycho Roos in SW NSW.

No Shoo Roo fitted just the bull bar that only got used once.

Mel

[up2nogood]

Strap your mother in law to the bonnet.


That'll scare everything away!

[Muddy999]

Funny you should mention that, the mother in law can cut sheet metal at ten feet with that voice...

However went into work this afternoon and as I was coming back, another fourby on the side of the road and a dead roo lying a few feet back. Old mate didn't need any help...but they seem to be thicker than usual on the ground right now. He said he had been puting some kays on lately and they were thicker than usual about Hay and the border as well. So it is not just about here.

Might be time to invest in some technology I think...

Muddy

[Maxtd5def]

In my experience they work. The early ones anyway. I had about 1/2 doz decent strikes before fitting it, haven't had one since, and that'd be about 10 yrs now.

Its saved me 3 times that I can remember, and backfired once. That time was when a joey was on the opposite side to its mother, & it panicked and shot straight across the road.

I find it works exactly as per instructions. Great for open country, useless in heavily timbered country, winding roads when the beam gets scattered.

There was some controversy with the later units, they operate on a lower frequency. Mine has just died, too many creek crossings I guess, so I'm interested to hear if the later ones work as well as the early ones too.


Regards
Max P

[Tiny]

I have hit three roos in the last year, all with the little plastic things

Tiny

[bogged]

numerous 100's of trips melb-syd while drivin interstate, only ever hit 1 roo.. never had anything.

think of the thousands of trips that happen weekly and how many roos are hit.

[Muddy999]

All I am thinking about is the one that is going to take my car off the road...


Obviously though travelling highways your less likely to hit one, whereas most of my driving is on trunk roads and back lots.

Muddy

[rick130]

Where I live, the country side is crawling with roos and wallabies. Everytrip to and from town we have to dodge them. There are probably only 150 people living in a 15-20km radius, yet there is one or two dead roos on the road into town each day. It's a pretty good envioronment to test out Shoo Roo's claims.
We've had the electronic Shoo Roo on the bull bar of the Patrol for three and a half years now, and no Shoo Roo on my Defender, and roo strikes are about equal, too bloody many to count !

As far as the wife and I are concerned, they are absolutely useless. I've hit roos at all speeds down to 40km/h with the Shoo Roo merrily squarking away.
We've stopped and turned the thing on and off in front of them and mostly they don't even look. I reckon the turbo whistle from the Defender is more effective.

Don't waste you money. A good steel bull bar is your best insurance.

Rick.

[pongo]

i used to live in bungendore on a property and commute to canberra everyday. Down our dirt road the plastic fantasitcs worked, but once i got into town the was no stopping them.
So, my thesis is this: If in a remote area they work , but if every one around has them, the roos will get used to them and ignore them any way. I got sick of replacing them on my 4runner so between that and my nextdoor neighbours disco, we eventually cleaned up our road and the dogs got fat .
Make up your own mind but if i had a barina to worry about i'd be using those plastic ones and buy a set of bloody good lights ( or 3 ) then you can see them coming for ya.

Cheers

[DiStuRBeD]

mate of mine reckons the HID spotties are good for keeping them away, normal spotties made them run around where the HIDS made them sit still and not run around

[DiStuRBeD]

SPOTLIGHT AND 243
That will fuk em!!!!

was thinking the same thing

[Busiboy]

guys you have it wrong, those lil plastic things DO work but it is all in the installation!!

Buy about 6 million of the buggers are stick them all over your car, then when you hit one of those roo's with the kamakazi bandannas on, you know the ones the pilots wear in the movies, they will minimise the damage to the car by being a shock absorbing thing that stops the damage to the paintwork you can't see anymore.........

dead roo and those lil suckers scattered all over the road,

PRICELESS

[munga]

its a numbers game i reckon.. "interstate truckies hit a lot more roos than my mum and she's got shoo-roos. they MUST work!" i used to drive out to the central qld coalfields for years and only ever actually hit one roo. Saw hundreds, sure.. But only ever hit one. May as well have been my triple j sticker saving me than a plastic whistly doo-dad. *shrug*

[BundyRumandCoke]

Our work trucks {big red ones with big red and white P's on them) do many, many thousands of country km's per week. They used to have Shoo Roos fitted, both the single large unit, and the smaller multiple units. They are no longer fitted. I dont know if the reason for that is management opinion that they didnt work, or economics. There were still roo strikes. Some of the guys said they worked, some said otherwise.
The trucks have never had the plastic whistles fitted, so cant comment on their effectiveness.

[Bingham]

alright ive been thinkin scary i know!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im going to patent these 2 ideas soon.....

it's the shu moo,, or shu emu,, as a few people i know have hit cows and f ngered cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And as im a rep and got 1 measly point left i think it would be a definate big seller.........

BINGHAMS SHU PIG......it may be a 243 behind the seat or whatever your prefered method is!!!!!........bastards

definate money spinner i think

[N*A*M]

chit chat

while we're at it, how about these new products...

shoo pedestrians
shoo fat chicks
shoo ricemobiles
shoo rta

[beretta]

You need to go acrosss the paddock (Nullaboor Plain) over night to really see lots of roos standing on the road. I got 12 in one trip (Perth to Melb), that was with the little plastic whistle thingies, they're good until they clog up with bug guts or dust! Doesn't matter how big the bar is upfront, if you get a big enuff roo go under the vehicle it will fark it, even worse if it comes over top of bonnet, had a big roo wipe out a six inch exhaust pipe under the truck, rather have the shoo roo and not have to fix the exhaust in 40c heat.

[RichardW]

The plastic ones seemed to be working OK tilll I hit a roo mid morning on the Mitchell Highway between Bourke and Nyngan. Missed the 1st one that jumped out of the scrub and got the 2nd. Lucky it hit the nudge bar and went under.

[beretta]

Just give the plastic ones a hit with a pressure cleaner and blast the bug guts out of em, they've worked well for me with trucks and cars. We used to run them on the trucks when I was living in Canada, I didn't see any deer for months, without them you'd be running em down left right and centre.