Thread: Fence reinforcement to stop a vehicle

A few blocks from me there's a round-a-bout with one corner property having a plastic, white rail fence. At least 4 times each year someone jumps the curb, drives into their field, then exits farther down making a terrible mess of the fence. I've been thinking they needed a giant caltrop in the corner...

Yesterday we noticed the fence is repaired AGAIN and now there's a camera on a post in the field. Hopefully the camera doesn't get stolen.

Try driving over these and you'll have a hard time. Impossible at speed without breaking something. Try something like this then put up your fence.

I just bought 37 RR ties for $100. I had to load and haul. Deals are out there. These in the picture look like landscaping ties, 75-100 lbs each. Real RR ties weigh about 150-200 lbs each. Get the real ones if you can.

Originally Posted by cyborg

.... My wife thinks I am paranoid as it is so anything too expensive or elaborate will be squashed.

You're not paranoid, something like this actually happened and the guy missed my house by about 2 feet.
Right behind my old house was a dead end street with a reflective barrier at the end consisting of three 4x4 posts about 6ft above ground with 2x8's across starting a couple of feet off of the ground. I'd say about 8-10 feet wide

Apparently some guy was mad that someone took "his" parking spot that he was waiting for at the local Bi-Mart and spit on him through the window. So the spittee chases down the spitter with his truck and is bumping him from behind and they end up on that dead end street - the spittee pushes the spitter through the barrier, through my fence (standard 4x4, 1x6) taking out a post and two panels. The guy being pushed was able to steer far enough to barely avoid hitting my house and they both continued out through my side fence into and open field... If I had stayed in that house I probably would have installed some kind of reinforcement as well

I also remember when I was in high school someone drove their car into a house down the street on a corner lot...

So tell your wife that it does happen and you're not just being paranoid

Originally Posted by CommandoJoe

You're not paranoid

A few yeas ago a drunk ran into the ditch across the street from my place. His car came out of the ditch, crossed the road, and proceeded to take out 120' of my brand new field fence. Sheared off the 6" corner posts :O Then he crossed the road again and went through the neighbors fence, drove about 300' through their field {missing the cattle} crashed through a split rail fence, crossed the drive way, then slammed into the foundation of my neighbors house! The neighbors were in the process of remodeling their kitchen and the impact knocked brand new cabinets off the kitchen wall. While talking to the cops, my neighbor read the car license plate over the shoulder of the drunk Mexican as he was unbolting the plates to run for it.

No insurance, no one was compensated. That car could have just as easily driven right through my bedroom or a barrier/boulder/etc could have stopped him.

some chick drove off the road above our road, rolled down the embankment, crossed our private road, tore through my front yard, and hit the cyclone fence between properties. bent over two steel posts and still carried far enough to smash into an apple tree on the other side. unfortunately, the other guy owns that stretch of fence, and since he rents the property out, the fence is still all bubblegumed up. gotta love small towns. missed our house by about 5'.

ALL THE SAME, despite the fact that these things obviously happen, i think it's pretty rare. lotto odds. if money is an issue, i'd probably address a few dozen other preparedness things before starting in on earthen fortifications.

Well I say it depends on a couple of things, do you want a passive type system that is their but does not scream out that it's a barricade or do you want to say hey here I am dummy. Then people will wander what it is you have you are trying to hide.

A lot of time a passive system work well, like big rocks, to where they will look nice but still stop a vehicle in it's tracks.

Before I decided to get out of Utopia a 16YO came across my property at 75MPH, airborne and totaled 2 nearly new rigs in my driveway about $50K worth back then. It was Pouring down rain and the local police (Females) were completely mystified that I did not want to allow the survivors inside my house, bleeding on my new white carpets!
The new owner has installed several large boulders at stratigic points.

My great aunt had a car drive through her yard and into her house, so she had her yard lined with huge boulders.

Those boulders acted as an excellent ramp for the second time a car drove into her yard and the car was launched into the top of her garage.

Boulders provide cover for attackers, as do ditches

We had a guy texting while driving the family mini van, he missed the corner in the road, jumped the ditch and hit the RxR tie we had for a gate post. He snapped it off at the ground, didn't slow him down much then nailed the power pole. That stopped him. You might think that RR ties are beefy but they snap pretty easy.

One other place I had an old farm house on 3 acres with lots of old growth trees and the house set in the middle of the three acres, it was on a corner next to a newer neighborhood. I lived there two years (I was renting) during that time I had three different car come around the corner to fast and lose it, you got it all three got stopped by the trees.

One person came back the next day and asked if I would considered taking down some of the trees so if they lost it again it would not take out their car. I told him to reach down between his legs, grab a hold of his shoulders and pull his head out of his @-- and learn how to slow down for corners and to quit trying to hold someone else responsible for his incompitence.

He turned beet red and got in his car and drove off. I guees he thought I wanted cars driving through my lawn and into the house. Some people a clear poster children for right to have an abortion, even though I do not agree with abortion in most situations.