This baffle rocks literally! I’ve had mine nearly 13 years and I’ve been searching everywhere for another one, mine is out all the time in Great Lakes weather and still is in mint condition! I use mine on the clothes line pole about 5 feet in the air with a swinging tube feeder, squirrels can’t jump up on it because the feeder swings or down on the baffle because the hex nut is so tiny, the baffle swings too much. I hook my baffle up with a pipe cleaner wrapped several times, even the babies can’t get in the feeder. I’m happy to report I have been winning the squirrel wars for years, they don’t even bother just eat meekly under the feeder.

I had no idea there were so many special needs squirrels out there, but apparantly there are based on the customer reviews that say this device works. My squirrels licked it immediately. That said, I can’t believe any manufacturer would put a product on the market that fails so obviously. So I must be doing something wrong. When I figure out what it is, I’ll evaluate this review in a new lighting. Till then, it gets the lowest score for taking my time up. It should have an instructional brochure for idiots like me who just hang it on the cord and hang a feeder under it. I was stupid enough to think that’s all I had to do. The lock nut idea one customer wrote about… that sounded like a try. I picked up lock nuts and a couple of 1/8th wide washers as well. I’ll experiment.

Surely there is a way to make my trouble worth the $10 I spent. I have thought that this baffle may work with a specific type of feeder: the tube type with a conical roof. If you were to attach this directly above that kind of feeder, perhaps it would prevent the squirrel from having something to grab onto. I had a 2-foot long wire hanging under this gizmoe and a large suet/feedbrick cage attached to the end of that. So the squirrels just slide down the initial 10-foot wire, hit this baffle, reach under it when it gives way, and grab the 2-foot wire and continue to the cage. If this baffle were maybe 4-inches wider, my intelligent squirrels would not be able to reach beyond the edge to grab the second wire. But they are able to balance on the baffle, so I don’t know that they wouldn’t eventually lick that as well. I sprayed the baffle with silicon, which wears off in the Florida rain. It helped a little.

There is one other possibility. This baffle may have been manufactured within a conspiracy between the squirrels and the Save The Squirrels Foundation. And priced so low that we easy-to-dupe desperados will buy the cheapest help on the market. In that case, squirrels and squirrel-huggers: you win again.

Fairly useless. Squirrels land on top of it and ride the tipping baffle to the feeder. Not very effective. A nice way to keep the rain off the squirrels while they eat your bird food.

Useing these mostly for keeping snow off my tray feeder. Doing a good job.

I recently started birding and am now an addict.. I have 9 feeders in my front yard and sometimes I have up to 10 different types of birds at the feeders at the same time. And also several squirrels. I have purchased a number of squirrel resistant feeders which work great and purchased two of these. They do an okay job of keeping the squirrels from attacking from the top and they do a wonderful job of keeping the rain off the feeder, so that has become my primary use for these baffles.