Here’s something I learned about trail camera’s. If you have it set for only 1 picture instead of 3 its hard to tell where that flash came from. I used them to keep thieves from stealing fuel on a Logging operation. I guess the infrared are pretty cheap nowadays.
Put your cameras up high in a tree or on a post on the barn, most s-it bags wont look up. Heck even the game wardens around me have ladders in there truck just for that reason.
If you can, weld a steel box absent the bottom over the lock. Leave enough room to reach up to lock/unlock, but not enough room for any tools.
This is what we did on our rural property. Put a decoy lock on the shipping container "handles" just to show that they are locked. Eventually we stopped doing that because those decoy locks were always cut. I guess they never bothered to notice the lock box before doing that much... But they'd always be stopped by the lock box over the REAL lock. The place we bought the containers from did it as a standard upgrade. Even if the thieves pop the rivets and get the latches of the container open, the doors still won't open more than an inch or two due to the lock in the lockbox.
Edit to add: We've had no luck with any prosecution, even if we have vehicle descriptions and license plate numbers. Without trail cam evidence that they removed the chain and drove onto the property, it's he said/she said, and they "can't do anything." We haven't found an even relatively secure place to put a camera that wouldn't just get stolen, and yet would still have visibility to the driveway access point, so we haven't gone there yet. It's a PIA.
I may have ran across the dumbest thief ever. I've got a velcro bed cover mainly to keep stuff dry and a locking tailgate. Yesterday someone tried to pry the tailgate open instead of just undoing the velcro to see what was in the bed.
I may have ran across the dumbest thief ever. I've got a velcro bed cover mainly to keep stuff dry and a locking tailgate. Yesterday someone tried to pry the tailgate open instead of just undoing the velcro to see what was in the bed.
Was there anything in the bed? Or do you now have to pay hundreds in body work on account of the thief's stupid for nothing?
I may have ran across the dumbest thief ever. I've got a velcro bed cover mainly to keep stuff dry and a locking tailgate. Yesterday someone tried to pry the tailgate open instead of just undoing the velcro to see what was in the bed.
Was there anything in the bed? Or do you now have to pay hundreds in body work on account of the thief's stupid for nothing?
