Line Guard

Noticed an issue with red squirrels following the power line to my house to get onto my roof. Picked up a set of critter guards, and attached them to the line. The effect was immediate, they couldn't get past the spinning rollers, and it provided a few hours of decent entertainment as they tried repeatedly. They've now given up, and I can rest a little easier knowing they no longer have easy access. Thank you!

I installed a set on my 220v line leading to the house. With in one day it stopped a squirrel. They have been up for a few weeks and not one animal has made it up to the house. Work as advertised.

The critter guard was easy to install by my handyman.
We laughed and delighted in the vision of the squirrels "using it".
Fortunately, it seems to have done the job. No more squirrels eating away at my house siding.
And, I love the sleek, "out of this world" design.
I highly recommend this product.

I purchased a home with roof solar panels and the squirrels used to love to play, nest and used the panels as protection. I work for a utility company and understand the damage squirrels can cause to power lines. I purchased the guards with the recommendation of some linemen and I have to save it has saved me. I used to be woken up at all hours to their annoyance on the roof. I haven’t had any loss in solar production. These guards truly were a life saver to my quality of sleep. I HIGHLY recommend them.

Seems to be working. Easy assembly and was able to consolidate two coax cables coming from the pole to the house.

The power line was the only way the squirrels could get onto my roof and then into my attic. The power company would not help. I installed Critter Guard and pointed a video camera at it. I have seen multiple attempts by squirrels to cross it and they have all failed. All is quite in my attic now.

I bought the critterguard and it is a good piece of equipment. The PROBLEM is the local membership electricity would not allow me to install it on the line to the house. So what good is it?

I had a squirrels' nest under my solar panels. So none of the usual "one-way doors out of the attic" tricks work. I trimmed a tree and they stopped coming for a while. Then they learned they could climb a power pole a block away, run along the lines and on my house drop, jump on my roof and head for "home".

I asked National Grid for help, and they told me to pound sand. So this turned into a DIY project.

The Line Guard has defeated the wily squirrels. Bullwinkle, you're next!

Thanks!

I am pleased to report that my latest installation has thus far been successful in thwarting one astonishingly savvy squirrel who managed to figure out how to traverse a previous flashing-based abatement installation method that had been effective for 15-20 years prior.

My wife and I donned climbing harnesses and she belayed me up to a tree limb high enough for me to install multiple rollers and wheels on the line between a phone pole in our yard and the drop atop our roof.

In the following days, my wife and I made a point of posting up outside through sundown, just to witness said rodent try to navigate our latest installation. In the first days, we watched him cautiously tread atop said loosely wrapped metal flashing until he encountered the first wheel. We watched him then test the wheel with one paw while struggling to remain balanced with the other three, precariously perched atop an unstable surface roughly 35 feet above deck -- and a stone one at that. Once the squirrel ascertained that the wheel spun freely about the line and he couldn't get a read on the stability of the rollers behind it, we watched with no small measure of glee as he retreated back to the pole. This moment was especially significant in that he had previously managed to grow comfortable enough with the "flashing traverse" to build a nest, which is the "flash point" for yours truly.

My wife and I observed this behavior on two successive evenings. Then, to our utter delight, we haven't seen him again test that particular route, nor have we since seen him in the canopy of our two beloved, mature live oaks.

And so, John, we thank you for your product and we thank you again for flowing us the spare roller, which I left uncut in order to buttress the entire string assembly along a power line running on a ~30-degree pitch (which, as you may know, is harder to protect than a level line).

The device acts as a barrier to prevent animals, including sloths, from crossing power lines and thus prevent them from having access to any specific equipment, in addition to preventing them from having or causing an accident on their way.