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Looked flimsy, doing up the tiny nuts and bolts fiddly, but in practice, it went together easily and does the job

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.

The media could not be loaded. I had a problem with four squirrels helping themselves to all the bird feed, so took a chance on this despite quite a few negative reviews.Assembly is tricky. The bracket is too big for my slender pole!?, so some inventiveness was needed to pad it out.Fitting the cone is like wrestling a greased pig - It's a good idea to flatten it out under some books for 30 mins or so beforehand.Once in place, it seems sturdy.First test - The squirrels normally come for breakfast at 0600, but this morning they were baffled. Two tried, and failed to climb the pole. One kept coming back, and is trying to think it through.Just ensure the cone is placed sufficiently high enough - 4ft or more.So far so good!Update. 6 weeks later, still working. See video

The bird feeder needs to be away from bushes as squirrels are very good at jumping bypassing the theAnti squirrel device also if placed too high up the pole the squirrel can reach up and bypass the device.

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!