Thanks George. Makes interesting reading. Keep us posted. 

Thanks for the update. (I had asked on your 40 day thread, now I know)

I guess helping the workshop is one way of eazing out of a daily work routine, and a usefull 'guy' to know.

Please keep us updated, appreciate it.

Congratulations George, well deserved start of your  new adventure.   Please keep us posted with your travels. 

Enjoy George.

Can you please tell us more about the monkey speaker. Where to buy it, how does it work? Is it really effective?

Nice George, paragraphs and spaces inbetween would make all more readable. 

All the best and enjoy your new adventure 

All the very best George, as the others say, please keep us updated.

Sounds wonderful.

Enjoy your retirement and camping.

Geniet die lang verlof ..... 

All the best for your new lifestyle.

We are sure to see you somewhere in your travels.

Do keep us informed.

Can you give us an indication of price to the Baboon Monkey Watch device?

Enjoy....

Yes; Keep us posted. 

George

We trust the Lord that you will enjoy a blessed retirement.

We do, and it is the best job I ever had.

Thanks for sharing. Please keep us posted.

We already learnt about the monkey chaser thingy from you.

Proffie wrote:

George

We trust the Lord that you will enjoy a blessed retirement.

We do, and it is the best job I ever had.

Thanks for sharing. Please keep us posted.

We already learnt about the monkey chaser thingy from you.

Kry jy nou maar eers een dan sal ek jou nadoen. 

campervan, the single unit monkey device which should sound of a little more then the average campsite cost R850.00

This sounds similar to a sound device I once almost ordered from the USA. It sends out an ear piercing sound (note) when the device detects a bark from a dog. Aparantly this sound hurts the dog to a point where the animal will run away and stop its barking. The unit aparantly resets its pitch after every delivery. I did not buy the unit .... I prefered to call in the chuck outs from Corner Bar to sort out the owner. (Joking)

Caravan Man wrote:

This sounds similar to a sound device I once almost ordered from the USA. It sends out an ear piercing sound (note) when the device detects a bark from a dog. Aparantly this sound hurts the dog to a point where the animal will run away and stop its barking. The unit aparantly resets its pitch after every delivery. I did not buy the unit .... I prefered to call in the chuck outs from Corner Bar to sort out the owner. (Joking)

We had a problem with small dogs barking from a unit in the complex we stay. The owner got a similar device.  Looks like a small bird cage. Dogs still bark now and then but that long continous anoying barking has stopped.

Works like a dream.

This idea sounds good but it is quite expensive. As mentioned, a single speaker unit costs R850 plus a 12V power unit plus delivery costs while a four speaker unit costs at least R2350 plus extras and a 8 speaker unit R2850 plus the extras.  I guess a single speaker unit is not regarded as adequate so you will have to fork out more than the R1000 odd which is a bit above my ability.  And then I have no definite proof of the effectiveness of the unit, making it somewhat of a gamble. Monkeys and baboons are a bother sometimes,  but up to now we have been able to control them, so I would rather go without this system.  We close all canvall flaps when we leave the caravan in monkey or baboon country and stow edibles in the nose box, which is empty after pitching the tent etc.   I hope someone that has used this system and can vouch for its effectiveness will come forward.  Perhaps then I might change my mind.  I would also want to know why a single speaker unit is not enough.

fred, if you have a 12 volt battery in the caravan , you dont need the 12 volt power unit.[its just a transformer ] i only orded the 1  speaker unit, which i will connect to the caravan battery. ill give feed back on its efficiently when i get the unit, but from what iv seen around here , one unit appears to keep more than a campsite clean, 

however, as mentioned above ill give first hand feed back when the unit arrives.

Please do so George.

The data supplied by Doug, the supplier, indicates the single speaker unit has a range of 20-25 meters. That should be adequate for a campsite, specifically the inside of your tent.

My concern is the horizontal gradient of the projected noise. Does not help if you have 25meters distance, but in a narrow area.

I am considering the single speaker system with a slave speaker to ensure I cover at least the tented area of my camp. Previous damage by two monkey visits was in excess of this cost.

This will cost R1,350 with the transformer. Without, it will be R1,200 plus postage.

As I suspected, the radius of the soundbeam is not great. See the supplier answer to a question I asked:

Die inligting is baie bemoedigend.  R1000 kan ek miskien bybring maar R3000 is buite die kwessie.  Nou wag ek net om eerstehandse versekering te kry dat die stelsel werk, as die ouens wat dit het so gaaf sal wees.

Ek het my aapskrikmaker vanaand bestel en sal dit met Eiland se windgat ape gaan toets van April af.

Hulle pla meer by ons in die B kamp wanneer daar nie baie waens is nie.

As die plek vol is, sien ons hulle nie want A-kamp se manne is vir ons 'n buffer.

If there are say 5 to 7 monkey scare units in a single campsite, all eminating various pitches, wil the various pitches cancel each other out ?

I have no experience on this subject, but my guess would be that the cacaphony created by all the different systems will completely scare away the monkeys.  For two sounds to cancel each other out, you have to have quite different circumstances, circumstances where the two sounds are equal but 180 degrees out of sync.

The system powerbox comes with an automatic day/night switch. As I intend using this in my tent due to the narrow gradient of the  soundwaves, the supplier disabled this switch for my indoor use. 

So, I need to switch on manually as the light in the tent will not be enough to trigger the day/night switch. I will not be chasing monkeys for all around me. Maybe they prefer them around.

well, week two went by, and wilst the preparations of the set up and workings worked out well , one cannot rehearse the life style untill you acually live it, and now we start learning things.

first thing we have picked up on is that we have to much stuff, we adopting an approach that if we are not using now we are  probaly never going to use it, so we are having a sale again, and by the time we move in five and a half months time we will be a lot lighter.

weather wise we have had a lot of light rain and weather forcasts predict this trend will continue into the middle of next week, our set up has remained realy dry inside, however i expect heavy rain will probaly creep in under the tent. 

we have not taken the boat out yet as the ski boat club had a week long competion on this past week resulting in a lot of boat traffic in and around the club , so we figured we would stay out of the way and go out this comming week when things are quieter.

wilst the life style is certainly better then waking up to an alarm clock that went of at 5 .30 every morning, then being at the work place at 6.45 , im not sure if i kinda miss that routine but i guess that doing that for so long its very different not having to follow that routine.

we have met a few people in the park, one couple has been staying here for as long as 14 years, some are semi permenent and others like us are just passing through.most keep to themselves though.

well ,thats all this week

no worries mate

To much stuff welcome to the club, the rule we try to practise (not yet full time), is if we don't use it in the last 6 months, time to sell to other members in the "club", stranges it looked so useable and nessary before you bought it !