They are built to last hence the 10 year guarantee and therefore yours should not have broke in that time. RSPB response: Thank you for your review, we are very sorry that this product has not lived up to expectations. God knows how to send it back to Canada for a replacement, the 10 year guarantee is worthless. I am very very disappointed to have spent more than £100 on these feeders. This could be from Einstein's continued attempts but now, in a matter of days, half the contents of the feeder is on the ground and not a pigeon in sight meaning that the seed is coming out without any significant weight on the perches. ![]() My ex bought me this one and, after 2 years the mechanism appears to have failed completely - there appears to be no resistance no matter what setting I put the weight mechanism on, when I press down - or even if a blue tit sits on the perch, the tray shoots up spraying seed everywhere. Still one pigeon we called ""Einstein"" would just fly up, land one claw on one perch so that the feeder would wobble enough before the tray lifted up and that was enough to spill out some seeds. We solved this by putting reinforced tape behind each alternate feeding hole, and removed the 3 related perches at the same time, leaving only 3 feeding holes and 3 related perches screwed in to the max. We found that pigeons could still flap on one metal perch and get their beaks into the adjacent feeding hole - completely defeating the feeder. The first one fell apart in my ex's hands when he was trying to put it back together after a clean- the metal was all rusty and just broke. Guess I'll never know if it actually got to the nuts! At nearly £60 quid it's not cheap, but the entertainment was worth it at the end of the day. Would I buy another absolutely as I do have a serious squirrel and pigeon problem, however I will be looking at a more secure means of attaching it to my bird table. The badger then returned to the feeder, spent another 10 minutes or so until it finally gave up, beaten by the anti squirrel technology! The second the badger turned it's back the fox leapt at the feeder, grabbed it in it's mouth and disappeared down my garden, around the back of my shed and is now lost forever! I have had similar experiences with this fox before and have tried to work out which garden he actually heads for but to no avail. ![]() Once again the fox made another assault on the feeder and was, once again, chased up the garden this time. The badger then continued to try and access the peanuts until he appeared to take a break. He saw an opportunity and made to grab it, the badger wasn't having any of that and chased him off down the garden towards my home. Whilst this was going on my regular visiting fox was sitting watching this action. I checked my cctv to find that initially a badger had managed to remove it from the bird table and then spent the next 15 -20 minutes attempting to get to the peanuts inside. I purchased one of these on the 29th of March I don't remember the exact day it arrived but by the early hours of Sunday 24th April all I was left with was the connecting wire between the feeder and the bird table it was hanging from. It is fiddly to get the cage one back together again as well. The original feeder is quite complicated to dismantle and re-assemble after cleaning at first, but it doesn't take long to figure it out and once you have, cleaning is easier than it is with the one in a cage, which requires a screwdriver to take apart and reassemble. I now have a feeder with a metal cage around it that seems to be more successful at keeping the squirrels out, although they have nibbled away at the top of the plastic cylinder where it sticks out the top of the cage, in spite of a metal cap on it. As there do not seem to be replacements available I had to throw it away. I put gaffer tape round it to try to seal it up but they quickly disposed of that and eventually they broke the cylinder so much that it was beyond repair. In the end they managed to break through the plastic cylinder. So I got a bigger, stronger clip, which they couldn't open. I had it on a spring-loaded clip to make it easy to get the feeder down to clean, and the squirrels learnt how to open that. I tied it on to a tree with rope at first, but the squirrels eventually ate through the rope to make the feeder fall, so I used a chain.
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