Burglars in the Barn

theboman · Feb 28, 2011

Any sort of alarm company signs are good. Then a 9v battery and flashing red light to have on a pole/wall that is VERY visible. My neighbor has a motion dector (solar powered too) that when you trip it a big dog barks! Trail cams without flash is a great option, you have breaking an entering, trepassing etc.,

12 guage. At the gun show I work we have some "crowd control" rounds. It's 12 guage shells with a rubber ball inside, that can be lethal under 4 yards, yet put someone out of action up to 90 feet or so.... It will leave a mark! Then again there's always a taser! They'll shoot a probe 15' and but 50k volts thru them....out of action a bit, and most cases wet themselves too. Pepper spray is effective too, to figure out a way to spray it when tripped and they'll be hurtin' a while.... GREAT with trail cams!!! Many leave a UV dye too.

I HATE a theif and if I ever catch one in the act on my property I will PROTECT my property at all costs, the 2nd Admendment ain't about hunters!

rd_macgregor · Feb 28, 2011

A trip wire setting off a CO2 marine air horn might do the job. You might also hook it up to a compressed-air tank for a longer blast than the built-in supply will give. In an enclosed space, those things will just about deafen the perp...plus the neighbour will probably hear it, too (heck, the sheriff might even hear it!).

BOB

dmccarty · Feb 28, 2011

There is a dye I buy at the farm store that is used to mark where you have sprayed, fertilizer, weed killer, etc. It is blue and danged expensive for a quart. But a quart goes along way.

It also does not wash off real easy.

No matter how careful I am with that stuff it gets on my hands. Worse, I use a 4 gallon backpack sprayer. NEVER, EVER have I spilled stuff from the backpack sprayer on me....

Until I put some of the blue dye in the sprayer. Then I sloshed some water/Roundup/dye on my neck, back and chest.

I may not be TheBoMan but I sure was TheBlueMan.

Took a couple of days to finally wash off.....

Later,
Dan

Survey1 · Mar 4, 2011

Wow....thanks for all the suggestions....not sure whether to deafen, gut punch, or blind them at this point. A nasty rusty nail homeade tack strip was laid down at the last point of entry last weekend. We are looking at rain here tommorrow so I will have time to mull over barn security with my BIL that lives near the crime scene. I'm thinking so far that the 12g blanks may come in handy. Again, concern over retaliation is my biggest concern. Hundreds if not thousands of illegal Mexicans work in the chicken proccessing plants nearby. We were 3rd in the nation for illegals a couple years ago.....but not to sterotype....naw not me!!! Gainesville GA. In case ya wanna do the research. Poultry capitol of the world....or was.

oc3crwler · Mar 4, 2011

We had this kind of problem with are family cabin in the UP of Michigan. With 5 different families using the cabin year round. It was hard to stop the thief or to set any kind of trap. So we built heavy metal shutters and panels to cover all the doors and windows. They all locked from the inside and you had to have access through a trap door.

That all worked great for about a month, Then someone just burned the cabin down.

So the next go around we built out of concrete block and a metal roof. Thought for sure we had them beat. So someone backed a stolen log truck through a wall. And they still only got a old beat down fridge. And burned the furniture inside. Local law enforcement told us that if someone lived there this wouldn't happen, other wise get use to having things destroyed. My cousin lives at the other end of the 500 acre property, and had no way of knowing what was going on.

I don't have any problems with my cabin close to me in West Virginia. Way up in the mountains. Surrounded by hillbillies, moonshine stills and meth labs. If you don't belong there, you are taken care of promptly. And god bless West by Gods king of the castle laws.

Survey1 · Mar 5, 2011

oc3crwler......I agree......shotgun,pistol and a front end loader will survive...In case you others don't agree.....it's hard to scream under 6 foot of dirt! I'm done with playing tag! Cops won't do a damned thing here.

Mike058 · Mar 5, 2011

I'm having trouble with meth addicts breaking into a shed on a piece of remote property. They come during the day when the neighbors are at work. I have a trail camera, but need a good spot to place it. I want to get a pic of the vehicle, preferably with the license plate, and maybe them getting out of the vehicle. Problem is the best place for such a camera is kind of out in the open. They'd just steal the camera. I might bring a ladder out and hang it a bit out of sight, or perhaps make a camo box that I could "hide" out in the open.

The frustrating part is that after the first time, I removed anything of real value. The second time they broke two hasps, saw there wasn't anything of value in the shed and stole a battery off of a tent trailer. The battery hadn't been kept charged, was probably 8 years old and worth $4 as scrap. They tried to take the propane tank, but the hold-downs were rusted tight. Too much work I guess.

I've put one of these on the doors Master Lock Co. Magnum Security Lock and Guarded Hasp - M736XKADCCSEN at The Home Depot and have carriage bolts through the hinges. Mostly, I just want to keep someone from moving in. I'm afraid of what they'll do to the shed now. Guess I'll work on getting that camera out there.

RadarTech · Mar 5, 2011

oc3crwler said:
We had this kind of problem with are family cabin in the UP of Michigan. With 5 different families using the cabin year round. It was hard to stop the thief or to set any kind of trap. So we built heavy metal shutters and panels to cover all the doors and windows. They all locked from the inside and you had to have access through a trap door.

That all worked great for about a month, Then someone just burned the cabin down.

So the next go around we built out of concrete block and a metal roof. Thought for sure we had them beat. So someone backed a stolen log truck through a wall. And they still only got a old beat down fridge. And burned the furniture inside. Local law enforcement told us that if someone lived there this wouldn't happen, other wise get use to having things destroyed. My cousin lives at the other end of the 500 acre property, and had no way of knowing what was going on.

I don't have any problems with my cabin close to me in West Virginia. Way up in the mountains. Surrounded by hillbillies, moonshine stills and meth labs. If you don't belong there, you are taken care of promptly. And god bless West by Gods king of the castle laws.

I tell you, I would be working on an unreal security system with a phone line dial-out camera and really go after them!!!!

J

rmully · Mar 5, 2011

On the weekend take a back hoe and build a trench over the area they would drive in... 2-3 ft deep should do ...cover it up with thin ply and re-dust over the road real nice. When they drive in thwack, they are in the hole with no way out and you got them! For fun fill the trench with water... they will love that.

RadarTech · Mar 5, 2011

rmully said:
On the weekend take a back hoe and build a trench over the area they would drive in... 2-3 ft deep should do ...cover it up with thin ply and re-dust over the road real nice. When they drive in thwack, they are in the hole with no way out and you got them! For fun fill the trench with water... they will love that.

AWESOME IDEA!!!!!!