Rural Security: Entrances, Gates and Locks

[kenmac]

Mighty Mule, meet the Ram (Power Wagon).

ram power wagon. meet the 223 rounds headed your way

 

[Industrial Toys]

Nice Round. Great Wound Ballistics!

 

[kenmac]

Nice Round. Great Wound Ballistics!

really depends on the size of the Power Wagon. It very well could be 308 rounds LOL.
Here,or not. my gate is always closed.

There is a guy up the road that has a sign out front. It states something to the effect... ''This farm is guarded by shotgun 3 days a week, Would you care to guess which 3 days'' ?

 

[Industrial Toys]

I like, Anyone found here at night, will be found here in the morning.

7.62 is nice too, but doesn't make the mess of the 5.56. Years ago one or two cops were killed in Toronto by some Lunatic that took his Uncles H&K in 7.62 and went on a rampage. The one cop wasn't killed by the round but some shrapnel from the cage of the cruiser.

 

[tjkubota93]

Society tends to make me anti-social.

Some of those some of those 'tourists' are simply crooks casing the place, looking to steal whatever is bolted down....looking into their dialated pupils tells me they aren't simply 'tourists'.

The rest aren't "visitors".....they are uninvited people that can't respect a sign as they drive past it, and hence, people I'm not interested in having on my place. Please post your address and welcome that type of person to your house if you wish.




The electric company has the gate keypad code, though now they use a wireless system to read the meters from the office and don't go door-to-door anymore. We have no other meters. I'm not interested in helping out govt weenies so they can tax me for adding a deck to my house or a new chicken lot.

The last GROUP (took 3 of them...why is that ?) that walked around the gate and up the driveway was the Census bunch....so they could GPS my front door. WHAT, pray tell, does the govt need with that info ? (hint: Ask the Japanese population of the West Coast how their folks ended up in concentration camps in WW2). I sent the census form in, with the Constitutionally required information to be used to determine representation in Congress: 2 residents. But NO....they want to hound you to know all kinds of info that is simply none of their business.



I simply don't like having to repeat "not interested" to the Jehova's Witnesses, the other Bible thumpers trying to save me from myself, the encyclopedia sales persons (though the internet has at least done away with them), the meat salesmen, who this week have a freezer in their truck, and next week go back to thieving with it when they figure out that meat sales is a losing deal, the hunters that want to hunt your land, and so on and so on. A gate stops most of that.

My thoughts exactly. Our northern neighbors don't take as much offense to intruders it seems.

Rotating shift + the J dubs = me calling the mother ship

 

[aczlan]

Hard hat, clipboard, blue shirt, khaki pants, boots. Go into most any backyard unchallenged.

Don't forget the high viz vest or jacket.

Aaron Z

 

[Industrial Toys]

INTRUDERS? HELLL, the whole country has been overrun by intruders by invitation!

 

[dmccarty]

Regarding locks...

Some how YouTube showed me a video on how to pick a combination lock. Happened to be the lock we have been using for years. :shocked: Did not take the guy long to figure out the cipher. Just happened to need to replace said lock and bought a different model from the same brand. The new lock is much heavier and I harder to break into but having said that, with the right tools or watching YouTube, it ain't gonna take long to get past the lock.

The lock and gate are there to minimize problems.

Later,
Dan

 

[4570Man]

Any exposed shackle lock or chain is a false sense of security. It takes under a minute to cut them. I like to think a hockey puck lock would hold up better.

 

[TnAndy]

Any exposed shackle lock or chain is a false sense of security. It takes under a minute to cut them. I like to think a hockey puck lock would hold up better.

Safes are the same way. Doors are usually heavy duty, often with internal dead bolts.....clearly to impress buyers more than keep thieves out.

Every other surface is fairly thin metal with a layer of insulating cement, and another inside layer of thin metal. Side grinder and hammer to bust the cement will let you in most of them without a huge effort.

 

[beowulf]

I used to receive sales calls all the time from ATD - 2-3 a week. One day I decided to have some fun and told them, in the most gravelly voice I could manage, something like "I don't need no $%#* security service because all day long I sit on my porch in a rocking chair with a double barreled shotgun on my lap just waiting for someone I don't know to come down the driveway because then I will blow their n#$s off, and figure the word will then get around not to bother me and that is my security system". There was a long pause - very long pause - and then they hung up. I still received the calls for quite a while, but somehow felt better about it. Now, for some reason, we have not received any more of those calls - likely due to using Ooma to screen calls.

 

[tjkubota93]

INTRUDERS? HELLL, the whole country has been overrun by intruders by invitation!

I meant northern US. But your statement could apply to US as well.

The folks up north seem to tolerate visitors a little better.

If your in need of help and knock on the door, I will help.

If you drive your car down my driveway, park in front of garage and try to sell me crap, look for things to steal, or get me to join your cult, I'm pissed. You are trespassing.

 

[essiambrekevin]

If you're REALLY worried about security... use one of these!

 

[4570Man]

Safes are the same way. Doors are usually heavy duty, often with internal dead bolts.....clearly to impress buyers more than keep thieves out.

Every other surface is fairly thin metal with a layer of insulating cement, and another inside layer of thin metal. Side grinder and hammer to bust the cement will let you in most of them without a huge effort.

I missed out in buying the most secure safe I’ve ever seen for $300. It was a ridiculously heavy duty safe like the first picture with in internal vault that was much heavier duty than the one in that picture. The vault inside of it was similar to this stand alone vault. I told the seller that when the guy that bought it failed at loading and moving the several ton piece on his lawnmower trailer I’d be more than happy to give him his money back. I called several times and he never picked it up but I don’t know what became of the deal.

 

[4570Man]

And based on what I’ve seen from safes being broke into is they are almost always pried open, not sawed and jackhammered. The conclusion I draw from that is they need to be too heavy to take the whole thing and have tight fitting doors. Antique safes win at both. Modern gun “safes” fail at both. I usually refer to them as store all your valuables in one spot for easy taking boxes.

 

[Looking4new]

ADT has called me several time, trying to sell me a security system. I ask the if their system will work during power outages. That usually gets me a 'no' answer. I then tell them that my security system works 24 hours a day power or not. I never tell them what the system is.
The local hoodlums all know that I raise and train Rottweilers and have enough smarts to stay away. My gate has never been locked. It also helps to pop off a few rounds from my .303 about once a month or so.