klm
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jun 11, 2003
- Messages
- 233
- Location
- Northwest MO
- Tractor
- Allis D17 CIH D40, JD5310, Massimo MS50010
Just put one of these on tractor, let them figure out what or where the camera is (if any)
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.
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.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.