Driveway alarms

[heehaw]

i sure like the idea of a hard wired system, using magnetic pick up, but don't like the idea of running the wires, would have been a good idea when i built the place though: i wish someone would try the one from lowes and let us know how it works: i've got about all i can afford to invest in alarms, or so i am told: unless it gets a really good report and is as low priced as the lowes model..it has a sensor that you stick next to the drive way.
heehaw

 

[PineRidge]

Bob Skurka posted a neat looking device for burying cable some time ago that is merely pulled behind your tractor. If you used it would probably take longer to hook up the wires than to do the cabling out to the end of the drive.

 

[Moon]

I bought one at Lowes a couple of years ago. Cost was $79.95, wireless. I have it about 150' out. It is set off by large metal objects only. It works 99% of the time, but has missed a few times. My mom liked it so we bought another one from lowes just a week ago, as an xmas gift. Same wireless set up, but this one uses 2 C battiers, where the one I have uses 2 D's. Price is 20 bucks lower too ($59.95). I hope it works as well.

Moon of Ohio

 

[chucko]

My dog barks

 

[heehaw]

please let us know how well the new one from lowes works: all 3 of the motion type i have, do tend to trigger on some critters; the smallest i have found so far, was a spider that was building a web across the business end of the reporter: every time it walked across the sensor, the unit went off: a quick sqush, and some bug killer around the sensor seems to have solved that problem.
heehaw

 

[sassafraspete]

My brother has a house in the middle of 40 acres of woods and has a long gravel drive. He put up a couple of these sensors.

When I go there, I like to drive thru the sensors, then back up , drive thru again, and repeat this several times. This drives him crazy, and I usually see him sticking his head out of the house to take a look at what's going on out there.

OK, just a mischevious brother....

 

[beenthere]

Which sensor system does your brother use, and how far through the woods will the transmission work?

 

[heehaw]

i have 3 sensors: about 250 ft from the house, the first sensor will trigger and the receiver will buzz twice: then about 50 ft further, and the dakota alert will trigger and the receiver will sound off with its high pitched whistle: then 40-50 further, the next sensor and it goes off with one buzz: so i know if someone is actually coming down the driveway...anything past 250 ft and they don't work worth having...
all this drives my family nuts, i turn them off once in a while, and they want them back on the first time someone knocks on the door and they get surprised.
heehaw

 

[Panache]

Thanks to all that responded. I got a GE Drivway Monitor from Lowes. $59. It is a metal detector. I will try this and see how well it is liked. It is for my parents.

 

[Junkman]

Does this one or any of the others have a way to differentiate the travel direction? We get a lot of 4 wheelers that travel through the woods and wind up on our driveway. I would like to know if they are coming or going. The dogs usually bark when they are coming out of the woods, but sometimes they get past the house and turn around. I always worry that one of the dogs is going to be hit by one of them if they are traveling fast. The locals now know to go slow, but it is the ones that are from other parts of town that I need to educate to go slow. This would give me a heads up so I could be outside to stop them.