If your serious about fortifying bandit barrier can sometimes be found for a pretty good price on craigslist or Ebay. Few years ago I acquired 6 4x8 sheets of 3/4" for $1000 off craigslist. Dude tossed in a heavy duty door frame and steel door. He said he got it out of a remodel bank.
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Lighting?
I take a contrary view of that compared to most people.
My house is about 100 yards off a private road, about a quarter mile down that private road from a public back road that goes nowhere (it is a loop) on a mountain. During the summer you pretty much can't see it from the private road. At night, winter or summer, you still can't see it because I don't light up the outside to advertise that it is there. Neighbors are not going to see somebody breaking into it whether I light it up or not - they can't see it from their house so what use is it to light it up?
All that is accomplished by lighting it up at night is letting anybody that is driving by know that there is a house hidden back in there and that makes it a target.
Now most of my neighbors (save one or two) on the private road, leave enough lights on outside their house that I can see them miles away.
Does that mean that if someone comes to my house I am not going to notice them? No. I have motion sensor lights on the driveway and on the outside of the house and shop. They work well - but only come on when someone or something trips them. I need to put more out there and some surveillance cams and such, but it is my neighbors who will be the targets as coming down the road you don't even know there is a house there.
The neighbors leave their lights on whether they are there or not, and for some it is fairly easy to know whether they are home or not. Me? Not so much. First, I am home almost every night (maybe gone for a few hours). Being a hermit means I spend almost every night at home. When I go to bed, all lights go off - if someone breaks in, they will get a magnum load of buckshot. During the day, they won't know whether I am home or not unless they have cased my house and know my comings and goings (there are multiple vehicles here) - which would be apparent as only 8 families live on my road and everybody knows whose car belongs to who so a car hanging around would look suspicious.
Just saying - maybe lights make more sense for others, but not to me.
I take a contrary view of that compared to most people.
My house is about 100 yards off a private road, about a quarter mile down that private road from a public back road that goes nowhere (it is a loop) on a mountain. During the summer you pretty much can't see it from the private road. At night, winter or summer, you still can't see it because I don't light up the outside to advertise that it is there. Neighbors are not going to see somebody breaking into it whether I light it up or not - they can't see it from their house so what use is it to light it up?
All that is accomplished by lighting it up at night is letting anybody that is driving by know that there is a house hidden back in there and that makes it a target.
Now most of my neighbors (save one or two) on the private road, leave enough lights on outside their house that I can see them miles away.
Does that mean that if someone comes to my house I am not going to notice them? No. I have motion sensor lights on the driveway and on the outside of the house and shop. They work well - but only come on when someone or something trips them. I need to put more out there and some surveillance cams and such, but it is my neighbors who will be the targets as coming down the road you don't even know there is a house there.
The neighbors leave their lights on whether they are there or not, and for some it is fairly easy to know whether they are home or not. Me? Not so much. First, I am home almost every night (maybe gone for a few hours). Being a hermit means I spend almost every night at home. When I go to bed, all lights go off - if someone breaks in, they will get a magnum load of buckshot. During the day, they won't know whether I am home or not unless they have cased my house and know my comings and goings (there are multiple vehicles here) - which would be apparent as only 8 families live on my road and everybody knows whose car belongs to who so a car hanging around would look suspicious.
Just saying - maybe lights make more sense for others, but not to me.
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There could be a Deliverance joke in there, but I will just let it pass.
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Don't forget, a consumer drone carrying a Mason jar full of jelly gas and a lit road flare will burn some stuff.
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Neighbors are sometimes the best. At the end of our driveway, with three other houses before ours, is three large Great Pyrenees that act as an early warning system whenever someone drives up the road. All of my neighbors watch out for each other.
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Statewide.
Relevant sections.
Relevant sections.
May be just jurisdiction, contact your County or City council.
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Put your chain linked fence on upside down. DIY. A home owner can get confused.
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Put cameras all over and everyone will think you're a tweeker. Back in my uniform days, we went to a tweeker's house to arrest him. No answer, but there was a camera by the front door. So, staying off camera, I stuck my P226 into the lens. Let him reflect on that...
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This is true! Tweekers love cameras.
Posted signage I would image would help to let someone know they've been warned much like how for compliance its best in Oregon law to have posted signage for no weapons allowed. Believe this allows law enforcement to say you was warned now we open the book.
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Security is obviously desirable. A combination of significant lighting, motion lights, IR video cameras, natural barriers like thorn bushes, gravel around the exterior to make it loud so folks cannot sneak around. Eliminate all hiding spots and shadows with lighting. Harden doors and windows. That glass film is a good idea. Signs warning trespassers about cameras, alarms, and dogs and no-trespassing are useful. Window alarms. A professional alarm company. Ability to monitor house from afar is good. Ring doorbell or similar might be useful. Taller fences, or pushing the fencing out farther. Layered fences perhaps. Interior lighting on timers.
There are drone camera systems that release and hover from a "nest" when someone trespasses and breaks a zone. You can also get alarms when people breach a zone. Extra car, even an old car, in the driveway. Move it around once in awhile.
Beyond that, you're starting to get into FORTRESS territory. And then maybe counter-productive to the point of starting to advertise that you need a lot of security because you have valuables worthy of stealing.
There are drone camera systems that release and hover from a "nest" when someone trespasses and breaks a zone. You can also get alarms when people breach a zone. Extra car, even an old car, in the driveway. Move it around once in awhile.
Beyond that, you're starting to get into FORTRESS territory. And then maybe counter-productive to the point of starting to advertise that you need a lot of security because you have valuables worthy of stealing.
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If I did that, I would have the alarm going off all the time, especially at night; deer, raccoons, procupines, etc.
I will admit ive had a few false alarms from big loose dogs and i learned to put it away from bushes that sway in the wind.
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I have a driveway alarm my kids gave me - I think it is a photobeam or laser. I have not installed it. The deer and other critters use the driveway all the time. Used to have dogs visiting me and that was welcome, but a couple of them got in fights so now all dogs are usually on a leash, with a few exceptions so visitations are now rare. Neighbor put in an invisible fence for his new puppies and they are well trained to not go beyond it - now they have LED lights on their collars; several times I see the glowing collars but not the dogs themselves when I drive by their house - eery.
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Since we're just spitballin' here and not actually paying for anything, high fence around peremiter of entire property and a big gate.
No mo falsies
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Since we're just spitballin' here and not actually paying for anything, high fence around peremiter of entire property and a big gate.
20 acres with a gully down the middle?
Are you going to pay for the fence? We are not talking about a puny barbed wire fence - this would have to be a fence that keeps out raccoons, deer, coyotes and such.
Nope. I don't mind them visiting.
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How about extending the gully and making a moat?
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How about extending the gully and making a moat?
Actually, my next property will be a lot more flat - gently sloping to the south. Preferably with a clear field of fire.
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