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dcyrilc
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I do, but my cameras are 30 feet in the air mounted on my street light poles just like we do at work for our traffic cameras. Your average Joe isn't going to get them down.
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I sold security products including camera systems for over 7 years. Sometimes you want to advertise that you have cameras and sometimes it is better not to. I found that most rural locations that posted they had cameras didn't. There are some dumb thieves out there and some that are pretty sharp. I have walked both outside and into many homes and business that have posted security or camera signs and it doesn't take long to figure out they don't have what is posted. So can a lot of bad guys. If I had a camera system 
on our property I would not post it.
on our property I would not post it.The Dougster
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Thank you Welding... for the update... Either I was too busy or too lazy to look it up myself.. either is a possibility.. lol
Upon reading some of the responses, I learned that Texas is way different from some states. Seemingly, in some states, public access is a given and that astounds me. To hunt in Texas on private land, one must "lease" the property or have express permission. Leasing is the norm and it's darned expensive. Texas has very little public land for hunting. I have over 200 acres in Central Texas with only a cattle guard, no gate whatsoever and a half mile long driveway. I never have trespassers so it's hard for me to relate to the problems folks talk about. Lucky? Maybe so...
Upon reading some of the responses, I learned that Texas is way different from some states. Seemingly, in some states, public access is a given and that astounds me. To hunt in Texas on private land, one must "lease" the property or have express permission. Leasing is the norm and it's darned expensive. Texas has very little public land for hunting. I have over 200 acres in Central Texas with only a cattle guard, no gate whatsoever and a half mile long driveway. I never have trespassers so it's hard for me to relate to the problems folks talk about. Lucky? Maybe so...
dmccarty
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I could not find the requirement but I did not make it up. :laughing: The posted signs I use have a place to put contact information. I know I read the requirement somewhere. It might be based on case law for all I know. I have been putting up the signs with my contact info for 10 years so whatever I read was from at least a decade back.
I looked at the hunting regulations which mention county requirements but I did not see anything for my county regarding contact info.
My first thought was that it was in this document that I bookmarked years ago. NC State University - NCCES - Liability and the North Carolina Landowner But the requirements there match the statute. The document discussion on reducing a landowners liability is one of the reasons our land is posted.
I know I read the requirement somewhere so I have been putting the contact info on the sign. I have seen other posted signs with the contact information as well. These were on old signs for the land that borders our land. I don't LIKE having my contact information on the sign though and it sure is a pain to put on the signs. :laughing:
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Dan
dmccarty
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The trees I use to mark our line are very close to the line. I don't want the loggers to take those trees in any case. And since our land has been logged it is not likely to get logged again in my lifetime.
If I used stables I would have to check the signs every few months. I do not see how they would hold the sign. Even the roofing nails with a washer only work for a year or so.
Our land was logged and there were posted signs on our trees that used roofing nails but it did not effect the timber sale. The signs were on our land but were for the neighboring property. They posted ON our land to keep people off of THEIR land. :confused2::laughing:
Later,
Dan
forgeblast
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The signs were on our land but were for the neighboring property. They posted ON our land to keep people off of THEIR land.
thats too funny. where they having a problem with the previous owner?
thats too funny. where they having a problem with the previous owner?
dmccarty
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Well, I have to thoughts about why the posted on our land to keep people off their land....1 - They did not know exactly where the property line was located. The problem with this idea is that there was flagging up and THEIR land had been clear cut so it was rather obvious where the line was located. :laughing: On the other hand the signs were kinda old so they could have been placed before the THEIR land was timbered....
2 - They REALLY did not want ANYONE touching their land so they put the signs up well away from the line.
We had a slight trespass problem over the weekend. Long story short is that I left the house with one kid early in the morning. The wife was to follow with child number two about an hour later. I left the gate open. She looked out the window and noticed a car parked on our road which is about 400 feet from the house. She can not leave with them parked on the road. So she calls me.....
I am too far away to get back home ASAP so I tell her to call the Sheriff which is only five minutes away... She does so and calls me back. During the call she see two men OUTSIDE of the car get back INTO the car. One in the front passenger seat and one in the back. Obviously there are at least three people in the car. They drive off.
We get people driving up the road once or twice a month if we leave the gate open but they are always lost, turn around and leave. Only a semi with a load of trucks has stopped.
He had to figure out how he was getting out of the place. So why did these guy stops on our place?The deputy just missed the car. He likely saw them on the highway. He looked around in the woods near where they were parked and when I got home I did the same. Of the four or five things they COULD have been doing I think they were lost. It was early in the morning. They had coffee. They needed to get rid of coffee. :laughing: They did and left.
I was at a kids ball game and after my wifey arrived we were talking to friends. They found it hard to believe all of the stories we have about trespassers and garbage dumpers. The only have a few acres or a subdivision lot so they just don't see how other people treat other people's land/property.
Later,
Dan
Yeah I wouldn't like it either! My land is in Polk County. Recently the county commissioners voted down a proposal to require hunters to have written permission from landowners. This followed an "incident" concerning hunters. I was astounded they voted it down because they felt it would decrease hunting. Well, yeah, if people are hunting where they aren't supposed to and know they can't get permission:confused2:
They cited a WRC program where you can have them enforce laws on your land but they require ones name/address/phone number on the signs to be in the program. Like I want a disgruntled poacher having my contact info
And since my address and phone number clearly wouldn't be local, they'd know they have free reign cause I'm nowhere close most of the time. As it is now they have to guess.Oh and to be really stupid as only government can do- there is no info on WRCs website about the program- you have to call them to have them mail the information. I did and the envelope had $2 or $3 postage on it, all to clue me in on something they could have up on their website for free. Gotta love the government.
BTW all of this has nothing to do with regular trespassing and law enforcement, just hunting!