Solar Fox-Scarer - Instructables from the beach #1

On our holidays on the Isle of May we always bring back loads of stuff from beachcombing. This instructable is based on a disgusting dead football. More instructables from the beachcombings to follow.

In this instructable I will show you how I made a solar powered fox-scarer using mainly stuff I found on the beach.

Materials:
Old football
Two wire coathangers
Bin bag, or any plastic or cloth
Some zipties or bits of wire
Solar lamp (cost ýocal ý
Tools:
sharp knife

Why do I need this? I live in central Glasgow with a garden completely surrounded by quite a high wall, near a busy main road etc, but nevertheless my garden is regularly visited by foxes. They dig up my onions and potatoes and drive me mad. Or else they sit on my lawn in the sun and taunt me. This is an attempt to keep them away.

Step 1 Cutting the ball to make the mouth

An old sewn football is ideal for this as it is quite stiff and holds its shape. A plastic ball would do but might not hold its shape so well.

Take a sharp knife, stanley knife, or craft knife, and gently run it along the join between two sections so you can feel it scoring and then cutting the stitches.

The aim is to cut a "mouth" that looks suitably scary. The ball I used had hexagon and pentagon shapes so I could cut a mouth that looked a bit like huge teeth.

At this point I realised the inside was really yucky so i had to rinse it out a bit.

Comments

[greensteam]

Not sure. the fox is still seen sitting on next-door's lawn. I think it really needs stronger lights

[canida]

Cool. Does it work?