"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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Reel McKoi wrote:


"Mike Patterson" wrote in message
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Considering the light weight of the swingarm, I'd think you could
cobble up a bracket out of about a 3" length of 1" aluminum angle.
Oddly enough, I have all of those in my basement...hmmmm.
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Would something swinging be a danger to small children? As the arm came
around it could clip them... :-(

Ponds are a danger to small children... This specifically claims it won't
hurt the heron, so it shouldn't be worse for kids. It looks like there's a
10' arm, and something dangling off the end. If the pointy bit is high
enough to ensure it doesn't poke someone in the eye, and slow enough to
not
hurt, it should be OK.

I'm waiting for Mike's experimental results :-)
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derek
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I wish my problem was *only* herons. When we cleaned out the 800 gallon
pond last weekend we found a huge bullfrog in the schlock on the bottom. I
mean this was the mother of all bullfrogs. Although no koi were missing
only about 1/2 the Shubunkins were there. Two of my beautiful butterfly
ginrins had shredded tails. The shredded tails was the tip-off that
something got through the netting. We did find two tears near the ground.
We replaced the birdnetting around the bottom 18" with hardware cloth. Only
the smallest frogs can get through now. We also removed one real smelly
dead snake that commit hari-kari in the net where it ran through some large
Hostas.
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