Equipment security cameras

[klm]

Just put one of these on tractor, let them figure out what or where the camera is (if any)

https://www.amazon.com/Sheenwang-Surveillance-Aluminum-Security-Business/dp/B083NRVF1S/ref=sr_1_4?sr=8-4

 

[rontaki]

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have grown to like the spypoint game cameras. Mine watch 2 footed game. Only down side, is they don't send pics out immediately, but price wise, very good. get 100 free cell pics a month, camera usually around $80. I power some with AC adapters, others with external rechargeable batteries.

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[buckeyefarmer]

The eufy s340 cameras are good at following, but not cellular. They are my current favored camera with wifi available. Use with a mifi for service. They do tell you immediately when motion is detected. I have a few of these. Probably won't follow thru the glass though.

https://www.amazon.com/eufy-Security-Wireless-Surveillance-Compatible/dp/B0CCYP6KFM/ref=asc_df_B0CCYP6KFM?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80745571708679&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584345041496892&psc=1

 

[Mike0616]

I plan on putting the camera inside the locked cab. They might not ever see it. Ot they might realize the camera is videoing them and run away.

All video cameras I know of have a light that goes on when it is recording. To lessen likelihood of camera being noticed, electrical tape over that red light is a must have.

 

[terraformer]

Most infrared activated cameras don't sense through glass very well.

 

[5030]

Not at all a nal about security, never have been out here in flyover country. Have a dog for a driveway alarm (hit and miss, mostly miss) and I leave the euipment barn door open about all the time. I do utilize a wireless camera with 3 transmitters in the cab tractor so I can observe what the mower or rake or bailer is doing, Thats it. I have everything insured againt theft anyway.

On Game cams, I use the ones that transmit to my phone so I can see what is moving about in the wooded property we own up north.

People today are way too a nal about theft. I'm not, maybe that's why nothing gets stolen around this farm.

Far as being secure in the house, if someone broke in with ill intent, I always have a handgun close by and I always carry concealed when about or sometimes open carry, depending on where I am. Up north I open carry simple because everyone does. People up north operated on the premise of... 'An armed society is a polite society'

I'd feel out of place walking into the Walmart or Menards up north and not open carrying anyway, because everyone else is...

Yes, I have a concealed carry permit as well as a Class 3 BATFE license.

Guess the word a nal is a prohibited word on here and why I spaced the 'a' from the 'nal'...

I sometimes forget this is a PG13 website...

 

[5030]

Anyone have something like this?
I have been leaving equipment parked in the middle of nowhere, where there isn’t even a house nearby for years and have had 2 pretty bad vandalism attacks.
One was slashed tires, the other was someone jumped on the tractor hood and destroyed it. Would really like to catch the punks, then a knock on their doors with video evidence.

Looking for a camera that could be mounted in or outside the cab and would swivel to the approaching motion and send to my phone or maybe it would have to be stored in the camera itself?

What would be perfect is something that uses the tractors battery power.

I’m a novice at this stuff, so looking for suggestions or help.

Interesting HD. When I was running hay on not adjacent to the farm fields, I would always leave the equipment parked if I didn't finish that day and I never had an issue, ever. Of course I removed the keys and defeated the starting systems, I have master disconnects on both my tractors that isolate the starting batteries but not so much for vandalism but for when they sit in the barn all winter. Isolating a fully charged starting battery, if there is any parasitic loss, it's eliiminated. Flooded cell batteries typically loose 5% of their total charge per month which is incinsequential and they sit, unused, all winter. Do the same with my garage parked pickup trick as well. Battery isolation switches are cheap compared to a drained and possibly frozen battery and once a flooded cell battery freezes, it's basically junk. A fully charged battery is viable down to -40 which I'd never see here. If something ever happened, which it never did, I was insured anyway.

One thing I'm not and never have been is paranoid about things that 'might' happen.

 

[jmc]

Maybe one simple camera positioned over "bait"? Toolbox, fuel drum, whatever attracts the local trash the most.

 

[jmc]

Interesting HD. When I was running hay on not adjacent to the farm fields, I would always leave the equipment parked if I didn't finish that day and I never had an issue, ever. Of course I removed the keys and defeated the starting systems, I have master disconnects on both my tractors that isolate the starting batteries but not so much for vandalism but for when they sit in the barn all winter. Isolating a fully charged starting battery, if there is any parasitic loss, it's eliiminated. Flooded cell batteries typically loose 5% of their total charge per month which is incinsequential and they sit, unused, all winter. Do the same with my garage parked pickup trick as well. Battery isolation switches are cheap compared to a drained and possibly frozen battery and once a flooded cell battery freezes, it's basically junk. A fully charged battery is viable down to -40 which I'd never see here. If something ever happened, which it never did, I was insured anyway.

One thing I'm not and never have been is paranoid about things that 'might' happen.

This battery isolator would be a good subject for its own thread. Product link, picture of where it's mounted, etc.

Extra points for battery terminals accessible without raising the hood- for quickly checking voltage, jumping, or being jumped.

 

[5030]

No local 'trash' around here, just hardworking dirt farmers, If any 'trash' appears they are from the city and don't last long anyway. Lots of cornfields to get planted in should they get stupid.

I reside in the nations largest 'unsolved' murder area. Great place to dispose of trash, amimal or human and the yotes aren't particular about what the have for dinner either.

LIke when I shoot wood hogs, I just leave them where they drop and next day, they are gone.

 

[5030]

This battery isolator would be a good subject for its own thread. Product link, picture of where it's mounted, etc.

I mount mine on the NEGATIVE post of the starting batteries. You can buy them in various configurations, with a knob or as a knife switch or with a key operated switch and none are expensive either, heck, I even haave on on my Kubota F Series lawnmower because it sits all winter in the barn as well. I use the 'knife' style switches as well as the knob style. Your local auto parts store has them and are on Amascon as well. Max cost should be less than 15 bucks each, even today.

I look at it this way, if some vandal did fool with my tractors or equipment and it won't start, they'd probably leave it alone anyway. Not going to be looking under the hood in the first place.

You always break the NEGATIVE post, never the positive.

 

[MarblemountLane]

Naturally, a lot of what I’d LIKE to do is illegal, but we have a few things around the place. In the house, we use BurglarBomb (just go to www dot burglarbomb dot com). There are no people or pets inside when we leave. Burglarbomb could be adapted to a tractor cab. But protecting externals is harder.

12 gauge blank firing devices might be useful, but it takes time to set up the devices and trip wires, then take ‘em down when you move.

I’m all for super loud alarms, something that makes it physically painful to remain. Any firefighters here may know what it means that I have a Federal Q siren (imagine a motor driven siren that pulls 100 amps from the battery, and has been banned in some cities for being too loud). Any logger may know what it means that I have a yarder whistle - uses a fair bit of air, but really screams.

I’m rural in the Pacific NorthWET, in a state ruined by politicians (Washington, but I’m planning on Idaho). Tweaker thieves are everywhere. Most of our motion lights and yard lights are 120VAC but we do have a couple solar motion lights, and they do work. Lights, dummy cameras, noisemakers, anything giving the impression “someone’s there, we’ve been spotted,” it’s all good.

I use a .357 blank firing device, also rigged to puncture an outdated Burglarbomb pepper spray canister, to keep bear from tearing into our garbage cans.

 

[5030]

I much prefer live ammnntion myself.

 

[Hay Dude]

Interesting HD. When I was running hay on not adjacent to the farm fields, I would always leave the equipment parked if I didn't finish that day and I never had an issue, ever. Of course I removed the keys and defeated the starting systems, I have master disconnects on both my tractors that isolate the starting batteries but not so much for vandalism but for when they sit in the barn all winter. Isolating a fully charged starting battery, if there is any parasitic loss, it's eliiminated. Flooded cell batteries typically loose 5% of their total charge per month which is incinsequential and they sit, unused, all winter. Do the same with my garage parked pickup trick as well. Battery isolation switches are cheap compared to a drained and possibly frozen battery and once a flooded cell battery freezes, it's basically junk. A fully charged battery is viable down to -40 which I'd never see here. If something ever happened, which it never did, I was insured anyway.

All 3 tractors have battery isolation switches. They come that way from the factory.
And what does this have to do with security cameras?

One thing I'm not and never have been is paranoid about things that 'might' happen.

I’m not “paranoid”, BTW.

But we have some locals that like to vandalize equipment here and there and I’d like to catch them and deal with it my way.

 

[ptsg]

What about some dashcams? One facing forward and another facing backwards, with hardwire kits.

 

[topgun05]

Park at farthest end of field so can't be seen when they're spot-lighting deer?

 

[Hay Dude]

Park at farthest end of field so can't be seen when they're spot-lighting deer?

It’s not deer spotlighters, although they are generally a-holes.

 

[Elviscaretaker]

This may be an odd suggestion, not a real cheap one either but go by a high end auto stereo place and look into their new security systems. Multi camera, inferred that is invisible to the eye (no glass issue) cell based and 2 way communication along with a whole host of things.
Otherwise....

 

[newbury]

Maybe with a (fake) camera that is visible to the theif?

Always install a non-working camera or two in an area where it could be sacrificed bu monitored by working cams.

I have 6 cams in and around my house and 5 trail cams around my property. I would use the trail cams and possibly another trail cam watching that trail cam watching the camera. That way they may trash the first trail cam but you will get proff of that.

All video cameras I know of have a light that goes on when it is recording. To lessen likelihood of camera being noticed, electrical tape over that red light is a must have.

On some you can turn the light off via software. For example on my Wyze cams:

You can turn off the status light on all Wyze Cam and video doorbell devices except Wyze Video Doorbell Pro.