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Outdoor security
- Thread starter HenDokuYaku
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My money's on deer. I'm assuming the plant was still in vegetative growth. A fox or raccoon isn't out of the question if the plant is a thin 6 feet without a lot of branches or bushiness.
One year I thought I'd be clever, bury a fish head under my tomato plants. Next day same thing. The soil was barely disturbed, plants were gone. Fish head was gone. Some varmint had dug it all up, took the plants and the fish, then replaced the soil.
I don't like trail cams because what do you get, pretty pictures of assholes stealing your plants? I want to be notified. There's motion sensor alarms, cameras that send an alert to your cell phone.
I'd never set up a trap that would cause bodily harm. Yesterday I saw a cute little calico kitty with a collar in my patch, probably sniffing around for rats or somewhere to take a dump. I don't object to free fertilizer or dead rats. Got to be the neighbor cat, they're not going to be happy if their cat turns up crippled or missing especially if they've figured out what I'm up to.
One year my buddy was out watching my plants at night. He was woken up by a noise under the apple tree. Got spooked and threw rotten apples at whatever made the sound. Next day a dead opossum turned up in the road. Of course it'd been eating the rotten apples..
One year I thought I'd be clever, bury a fish head under my tomato plants. Next day same thing. The soil was barely disturbed, plants were gone. Fish head was gone. Some varmint had dug it all up, took the plants and the fish, then replaced the soil.
I don't like trail cams because what do you get, pretty pictures of assholes stealing your plants? I want to be notified. There's motion sensor alarms, cameras that send an alert to your cell phone.
I'd never set up a trap that would cause bodily harm. Yesterday I saw a cute little calico kitty with a collar in my patch, probably sniffing around for rats or somewhere to take a dump. I don't object to free fertilizer or dead rats. Got to be the neighbor cat, they're not going to be happy if their cat turns up crippled or missing especially if they've figured out what I'm up to.
One year my buddy was out watching my plants at night. He was woken up by a noise under the apple tree. Got spooked and threw rotten apples at whatever made the sound. Next day a dead opossum turned up in the road. Of course it'd been eating the rotten apples..
CrushnYuba
Well-known member
I had a big problem with turkeys one year. They kept digging in my soil to nest down in the cool moist ness, and to eat the worms.
I got battery powered motion activated sprinklers off eBay for like 25$ . You need to have pressurized water. Solar powered pressurized water is easy to have. 3 gallons a minute at 45 psi is enough to run a couple sprinklers or drip system for watering your plants.
45$ shurflo 12v rv pump.
25$ 20w solar panel.
10$ charge controller
You could use a 50$ Wal-Mart car battery if its just running the sprinkler to scare away animals. If you want to run the water for like an hour, you Will need 2 6v golf cart batteries at 80$ ish a piece.
I got battery powered motion activated sprinklers off eBay for like 25$ . You need to have pressurized water. Solar powered pressurized water is easy to have. 3 gallons a minute at 45 psi is enough to run a couple sprinklers or drip system for watering your plants.
45$ shurflo 12v rv pump.
25$ 20w solar panel.
10$ charge controller
You could use a 50$ Wal-Mart car battery if its just running the sprinkler to scare away animals. If you want to run the water for like an hour, you Will need 2 6v golf cart batteries at 80$ ish a piece.
HenDokuYaku
Member
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I set up trail cams, had my dogs take some shits, dropped some kitty litter. I've been good. Nothing disturbed...
FYI, there was no stump. I dug down.
I set up trail cams, had my dogs take some shits, dropped some kitty litter. I've been good. Nothing disturbed...
FYI, there was no stump. I dug down.
hang a bunch of fishhooks on just one plant, you be careful, they'll get caught, use tough kevlar line and they'd better have a really good razor sharp knife to cut it... or they won't; instead they'll struggle and try to grip the plant w/their other hand... snagged again!
they'll be dragging that shit to their car screaming/crying etc.......
show no mercy, a camera is an after the fact device.
good detective work, did sound like a human ripper
live and learn, outdoor is a tough game for sure
Motion sensor lights
Trip wire alarms. They even make trip wires u put a .22 cal blank and when wire is tripped it sounds like u are shooting at them... Or it will wake u up.
Setup some stakes around garden with a circle on top then run fishing line thru each circle to the trip alarm or trip blank shooter....
Sorry this happened
Trip wire alarms. They even make trip wires u put a .22 cal blank and when wire is tripped it sounds like u are shooting at them... Or it will wake u up.
Setup some stakes around garden with a circle on top then run fishing line thru each circle to the trip alarm or trip blank shooter....
Sorry this happened
Just the right amount of Wyle E. Coyote! Great!
Maybe some rat traps with old sawzall blades painted black.
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I slept outside on my back deck last night.
Fifteen feet from my plants.
It was very comfy on the cushioned teak recliner, in a sleeping bag with a tarp on top to ward off the dew.
I've also got a couple electronic trip wire alarms set up as an early warning system. they work great.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B072LMPSWT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
So far the only thing that has tripped the alarms is me. lol.
Fifteen feet from my plants.
It was very comfy on the cushioned teak recliner, in a sleeping bag with a tarp on top to ward off the dew.
I've also got a couple electronic trip wire alarms set up as an early warning system. they work great.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B072LMPSWT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
So far the only thing that has tripped the alarms is me. lol.
yardgrazer
Well-known member
I've been thinking about setting a tent up in the yard, make it seem possible there's somebody in there. Another month or so and I should be in the clear, until then, a bit on edge.
'Boogieman'
Well-known member
I have been looking online myself for a 20' x 50' and 10' high cage like you would find in a zoo for bears and I'm I'm suprised I can't find anything like it on the market.
