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After living here for going on ten years now we just had our first theft.
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That sucks!!
I'm extremely lucky, I have the opposite situation.
I got home from Florida to find that even though my employees were supposed to keep the driveway cleared of snow, the lane down the back to the shop was cleared also. When I went back to see why I found footprints to & from my shop door.
Fearing the worst I entered but found nothing disturbed except a note on the work-bench that read "Ted, you left the shop lights on again. Keith.".
It turns out I had indeed left the shop lights on, and a neighbour (who knows the 'secret' way in) had gone in to turn them off lest they burn for several weeks and tip someone off to the fact that I was away.
Randy, count on it!
Best of luck.
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Chief, good to hear you're still kicking.This is a timely post. After living here for going on ten years now we just had our first theft. Somebody cut the lock chain on my pallet forks and stole them. Bastards. I'm installing driveway sensors and a complete IP surveillance system that will notify me so I can view the cameras remotely, record video and trigger the alarm if necessary.I really, really want to put in an image processing system coupled with remote lasers that will put a red dot on the chest of any perpetrators but I'd probably get sued for taking out an eye.
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Sorry to hear of your bad "AmeriKan neighbor" experience Ken.
I can tell you from experience that the Reconix RC60 is an OUTSTANDING time lapse camera. It has a 1/5th second trigger that can be set to take a burst of 5 pictures with each sensor reception of movement. It can also recognize upto 4 Gb of memory which = a LOT of pictures. It is VERY miserly on battery consumption. Mine is still on the intitial set of batteries I installed last August and the camera has taken well over 5,000 pictures. The batteries were at 78% last time I exchanged memory modules. Another nice thing is that they are pin # protected so a thief cannot use it if stolen. They come with provisions for a Master Lock Python locking cable.
They are a bit on the pricey side but WELL worth it. They WORK and work WELL.
http://www.reconyx.com/page.php?id=61
http://images.reconyx.com/file/RapidFire%20Manual%20Jan%202009.pdf
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Thanks for the recommendation Randy. We don't really have anything to monitor that isn't in view of the house, around a one acre area. The rest of the property is heavily forested.
All equipment that won't fit in the garage and shed is chained to trees in view of the house, so cameras mounted on the house and connected to a central DVR should do the job. Some of those cameras are pretty pricey and I'm looking at about 8-12 cameras in total.
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Chief,
I can understand what you are saying and it is not just one area or one state or one part of this country and probably not the whole world either.
One thing you hit when you move into any community that has few people moving into or out of is relationships and the way any outsider is treated. This can even be true in the local community by even a change in Church or where you work. It is just human or inhuman which ever it really is. Another thing that makes rural life tough or can is the low number of people you live around. The attitude of one or two (or a few anyway)either good or bad has such a major influence as the total population is small compared to a more heavy population center.
I live about 7 miles from town, not in an isolated area by any means. There is a small subdivision at me of about 20 houses but on my side of the road no house for 1/4 mile one direction and none the other direction for about 1/2 mile. Have three adjoining farm land owners. One is father of friends we grew up with. The other two I know only because they are adjoining land owners. One treats us with respect and I watch his place for him. Have called him when I have had concerns for his place or the way his employees speed by us. Even called the law when I could not reach him regarding trespassors. The other is a liar, only cares about himself and only call I will make regarding his land is when someone there is breaking law that affects me. Which I have had to call on him and his friends once or twice. So out of my three adjoining land owners two get high praises and one gets terrible score so 1/3 or 33% are problems. Now if the problem person sells his land for subdivision then that one adjoining land owner becomes maybe 25 but more like 100. Ratios really change.
So guess you buy a place and only live next door to siblings and cousins...wait..not mine..rather have any of you. 
At same time, it is very possible the people bothering your property are not local. Or they may be some one who has visited you.
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yep i agree with you there KT when i brought my place it was a complete life style change for me, and settling into a small town can take awhile to get known, i live about 19 miles from town, and all though you do meet people in your daily business dealings it takes time. I found that when i took an off farm job in town a lot of things change. now I can walk down the main street and almost everyone calls me by my 1st name. my nearest neighbour is about 3 miles away as the crow flies but to get there by road is around 6 miles. My farm is small by local standards being 1750acres. but my neighbours are great, helping me pull a new calf when the mother had problems during calving, the other neighbour show me how to castrate bull calves with rings rather than cutting them. my neighbour have made me feel welcome to our little out of town community, even throwing me a surprise 60th birthday party.
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just emember to take the spark plug out of the chainsaw
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kwschummjust emember to take the spark plug out of the chainsaw
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 The chainsaws are all locked up but if they want any of this stuff bad they'll probably have a set of bolt cutters. Quite a bit quieter.
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The chainsaws are all locked up but if they want any of this stuff bad they'll probably have a set of bolt cutters. Quite a bit quieter.
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Ken, there's a rather devious way to keep your stuff protected if you think you just have one or two locals snooping around for easy to pick up stuff.
I did this a few years back, it works well.
Get a plastic jerry can and go to the local airport and have it filled with 100LL aviation fuel. Then leave it out near a shed or garage so a thief will think you've just left it out by mistake, the mistake will be theirs!
100LL is coloured blue so anybody stealing it thinks they've got 2 stroke mix.
Avgas burns very hot compared to regular gas, and since it has no lubricating oil even though it looks like it does, it burn out a 2 stroke motor in very short order.
After losing a motor or two they will quickly stop looking around your place for anything else.
If you know anybody at the local small engine shop, you can ask about burned out motors right after the fuel disappears.
Best of luck.
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Ken, there's a rather devious way to keep your stuff protected if you think you just have one or two locals snooping around for easy to pick up stuff.I did this a few years back, it works well.Get a plastic jerry can and go to the local airport and have it filled with 100LL aviation fuel. Then leave it out near a shed or garage so a thief will think you've just left it out by mistake, the mistake will be theirs!100LL is coloured blue so anybody stealing it thinks they've got 2 stroke mix.Avgas burns very hot compared to regular gas, and since it has no lubricating oil even though it looks like it does, it burn out a 2 stroke motor in very short order.After losing a motor or two they will quickly stop looking around your place for anything else. If you know anybody at the local small engine shop, you can ask about burned out motors right after the fuel disappears. Best of luck. |
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That'll teach 'em. Good trick Murf!
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That'll teach 'em. Good trick Murf!
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Oh it certainly does, it cost a former neighbour of mine a new motor for his and his son's 4 wheelers.
It was pretty tough for him to deny he knew his kid was up to no good after his motor toasted too!!!
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