Burglars in the Barn

[theboman]

Any sort of alarm company signs are good. Then a 9v battery and flashing red light to have on a pole/wall that is VERY visible. My neighbor has a motion dector (solar powered too) that when you trip it a big dog barks! Trail cams without flash is a great option, you have breaking an entering, trepassing etc.,

12 guage. At the gun show I work we have some "crowd control" rounds. It's 12 guage shells with a rubber ball inside, that can be lethal under 4 yards, yet put someone out of action up to 90 feet or so.... It will leave a mark! Then again there's always a taser! They'll shoot a probe 15' and but 50k volts thru them....out of action a bit, and most cases wet themselves too. Pepper spray is effective too, to figure out a way to spray it when tripped and they'll be hurtin' a while.... GREAT with trail cams!!! Many leave a UV dye too.

I HATE a theif and if I ever catch one in the act on my property I will PROTECT my property at all costs, the 2nd Admendment ain't about hunters!

 

[rd_macgregor]

A trip wire setting off a CO2 marine air horn might do the job. You might also hook it up to a compressed-air tank for a longer blast than the built-in supply will give. In an enclosed space, those things will just about deafen the perp...plus the neighbour will probably hear it, too (heck, the sheriff might even hear it!).

BOB

 

[dmccarty]

There is a dye I buy at the farm store that is used to mark where you have sprayed, fertilizer, weed killer, etc. It is blue and danged expensive for a quart. But a quart goes along way.

It also does not wash off real easy. No matter how careful I am with that stuff it gets on my hands. Worse, I use a 4 gallon backpack sprayer. NEVER, EVER have I spilled stuff from the backpack sprayer on me....

Until I put some of the blue dye in the sprayer. Then I sloshed some water/Roundup/dye on my neck, back and chest.

I may not be TheBoMan but I sure was TheBlueMan.

Took a couple of days to finally wash off.....

Later,
Dan

 

[Survey1]

Wow....thanks for all the suggestions....not sure whether to deafen, gut punch, or blind them at this point. A nasty rusty nail homeade tack strip was laid down at the last point of entry last weekend. We are looking at rain here tommorrow so I will have time to mull over barn security with my BIL that lives near the crime scene. I'm thinking so far that the 12g blanks may come in handy. Again, concern over retaliation is my biggest concern. Hundreds if not thousands of illegal Mexicans work in the chicken proccessing plants nearby. We were 3rd in the nation for illegals a couple years ago.....but not to sterotype....naw not me!!! Gainesville GA. In case ya wanna do the research. Poultry capitol of the world....or was.

 

[oc3crwler]

We had this kind of problem with are family cabin in the UP of Michigan. With 5 different families using the cabin year round. It was hard to stop the thief or to set any kind of trap. So we built heavy metal shutters and panels to cover all the doors and windows. They all locked from the inside and you had to have access through a trap door.

That all worked great for about a month, Then someone just burned the cabin down.


So the next go around we built out of concrete block and a metal roof. Thought for sure we had them beat. So someone backed a stolen log truck through a wall. And they still only got a old beat down fridge. And burned the furniture inside. Local law enforcement told us that if someone lived there this wouldn't happen, other wise get use to having things destroyed. My cousin lives at the other end of the 500 acre property, and had no way of knowing what was going on.


I don't have any problems with my cabin close to me in West Virginia. Way up in the mountains. Surrounded by hillbillies, moonshine stills and meth labs. If you don't belong there, you are taken care of promptly. And god bless West by Gods king of the castle laws.

 

[Survey1]

oc3crwler......I agree......shotgun,pistol and a front end loader will survive...In case you others don't agree.....it's hard to scream under 6 foot of dirt! I'm done with playing tag! Cops won't do a damned thing here.

 

[Mike058]

I'm having trouble with meth addicts breaking into a shed on a piece of remote property. They come during the day when the neighbors are at work. I have a trail camera, but need a good spot to place it. I want to get a pic of the vehicle, preferably with the license plate, and maybe them getting out of the vehicle. Problem is the best place for such a camera is kind of out in the open. They'd just steal the camera. I might bring a ladder out and hang it a bit out of sight, or perhaps make a camo box that I could "hide" out in the open.

The frustrating part is that after the first time, I removed anything of real value. The second time they broke two hasps, saw there wasn't anything of value in the shed and stole a battery off of a tent trailer. The battery hadn't been kept charged, was probably 8 years old and worth $4 as scrap. They tried to take the propane tank, but the hold-downs were rusted tight. Too much work I guess.

I've put one of these on the doors Master Lock Co. Magnum Security Lock and Guarded Hasp - M736XKADCCSEN at The Home Depot and have carriage bolts through the hinges. Mostly, I just want to keep someone from moving in. I'm afraid of what they'll do to the shed now. Guess I'll work on getting that camera out there.

 

[RadarTech]

We had this kind of problem with are family cabin in the UP of Michigan. With 5 different families using the cabin year round. It was hard to stop the thief or to set any kind of trap. So we built heavy metal shutters and panels to cover all the doors and windows. They all locked from the inside and you had to have access through a trap door.

That all worked great for about a month, Then someone just burned the cabin down.


So the next go around we built out of concrete block and a metal roof. Thought for sure we had them beat. So someone backed a stolen log truck through a wall. And they still only got a old beat down fridge. And burned the furniture inside. Local law enforcement told us that if someone lived there this wouldn't happen, other wise get use to having things destroyed. My cousin lives at the other end of the 500 acre property, and had no way of knowing what was going on.


I don't have any problems with my cabin close to me in West Virginia. Way up in the mountains. Surrounded by hillbillies, moonshine stills and meth labs. If you don't belong there, you are taken care of promptly. And god bless West by Gods king of the castle laws.

I tell you, I would be working on an unreal security system with a phone line dial-out camera and really go after them!!!!

J

 

[rmully]

On the weekend take a back hoe and build a trench over the area they would drive in... 2-3 ft deep should do ...cover it up with thin ply and re-dust over the road real nice. When they drive in thwack, they are in the hole with no way out and you got them! For fun fill the trench with water... they will love that.

 

[RadarTech]

On the weekend take a back hoe and build a trench over the area they would drive in... 2-3 ft deep should do ...cover it up with thin ply and re-dust over the road real nice. When they drive in thwack, they are in the hole with no way out and you got them! For fun fill the trench with water... they will love that.

AWESOME IDEA!!!!!!

 

[kayaker]

I remember as a kid, when Dad was building our new home, someone was stealing our FIREWOOD! We had tons of it. They were backing down the entrance and loading up and night and heading out. Being a carpenter, he used 2" x10" about 10 or 12 foot long. Then loaded it with 16 penny nails!! Then buried them just under the surface of the road leading to the stacks of firewood. We place 4 or 5 of them to make sure we got them tires good. Needless to say they came back! But no wood was missing. They back over everyone. They noticed one and pitched it to the side! Never again did the bandits come back! To this day we never found out. He put the word out to every tire shop in town, for someone coming in with 4 blown tires!

 

[banditbooker]

hi everyone, i like all these ideas. i've had things stolen from my place three times in the 3 years i lived here. the first time when i just bought my house they took a 500 dewalt power tool set, the second time i lost my 500 pound propane tank with $200 dollars worth of propane in it and the third time they took some electronics out of my car and a rifle that was in my buddies truck that he had in my driveway. the last one was late at night and we heard them shut the doors and saw them driving away. we followed them and they dismantled the gun and threw it off a bridge into a creek. we finally confronted them at a gas station and made them go back to the creek and fish out all the pieces of the gun. oh, and by then it was 3 in the morning and in the middle of February at ca cool 20 degrees. lol then we called the police to come and get them. they went to jail and i get a restitution check every once in a while. I will be setting up cameras though when I get some other projects taken care of.

 

[toy]

There was a news story on our local news where two young thugs did a home invasion and beat a 79 year old woman nearly to death. She was in intensive care for a few days and when she got out they showed her and she was beat black and blue all over where you could see. Today they reported that they had caught the two low lives, pieces of trash, hope they give them the max and if the max isn't enough I hope the neighbor hood gives them the rest of what they are due. I hope these two low lives hasn't took away this woman's independence and left her with a fear for the rest of her life of living alone.

I hope you catch whoever is breaking into your barn. I know that if you do catch them that they will be tried in a county or state court but couldn't they also be tried in a federal court for infringing on your constitutional rights in your pursuit of happiness and even liberty? Maybe that is a silly idea since I haven't heard of anyone doing that, or maybe no one has thought of it yet.

 

[rd_macgregor]

Years ago a friend told me about a neighbour whose mountain log cabin was broken into...with a chainsaw!!
BOB

 

[Haywire]

Years ago a friend told me about a neighbour whose mountain log cabin was broken into...with a chainsaw!!
BOB

That's the bad thing.. if it's a pole barn, any cordless circular saw will get into it no matter what you do.

Ian

 

[horsinaround]

That's the bad thing.. if it's a pole barn, any cordless circular saw will get into it no matter what you do.

Ian

A good knife and some strength will cut right through the tin on a pole barn. The tin just keeps the rain out.

 

[dcyrilc]

A good knife and some strength will cut right through the tin on a pole barn. The tin just keeps the rain out.

99% of theives aren't smart enough to figure that out though.

We had a job shack for years that the walls were almost falling off of, but it had a solid door and 1/2"x3" steel bar to secure the door. It was amazing how many marks were on the bar from people trying to break in. One night when leaving the job, I realized I had locked my keys in the job shack. It took me less than 60 seconds to pull the siding away from the framing and slide into the shack get my keys and get back out. I then got a hammer and nails out of my truck, renailed the siding, and went home.:confused2: