ROBBED, NEED SECURITY / THEFT PROTECTION IDEAS

[GaGrown]

crooks all ways return.so next year your screwed.they do make wireless driverway alarms and motion detectors with a long range(even have portable recievers),just will cost you 400.00 bucks.

better just to find a new site far away from your home.

You could even get one of those Critter Cams from Cabela's....

Ga Grown!

[FreeDaHerb]

Dogs, outside dogs. Preferably Border Collies as they are super smart, high energy, and love to be outside and will defend their land and bark their heads off at strangers (which is usually the best defense) which would also alert you to a strangers presence.

No guns and no violence man (unless of course they come in your house). The electric fence deal does sound great though, with warning signs of course.

It very well may have been the cops that got your crop, could have seen it from overhead in the ghetto bird. When this happens they land, chop, fly. You could also move your grow INDOORS. Better luck next time. :hippy:

[Weezard]

Finished my last grow and relaxed a little.

Am now in the process of installing the roof, and alarm on my bloomery cage.

Also found a DVR that uses 4, IR lit, color cameras, with field motion detection.

If anything moves within 15 yards of da cage, the recorder kicks in and saves the pre-ceeding 8 Mb of video as well.
So, even if the alarm runs them off, even at night, I should have excellent pictures.:thumbsup:
Holds 30 days of high resolution 120fps video.

Draggin' my feet hooking it up 'cause I'm between blooms.
(Too much weed on hand, had to take a break):jointsmile:

So, when my 90 pound "moose" started growling and woofling at around midnight, I'm afraid I got a little sarcastic.

Said; "pipe down, there's nothing left to defend".
Next morning, I find that my neighbor had brought 14 plants down da mountain the night before and put them in the wooden pen that he uses.
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Wish he had told me!

The Dawg was right!

Them bastids climbed an 8 foot lattice and swiped 7 of his immature plants.
(Gotta be dumb kids they took da wrong plants in the dark).

I'm tempted to finish building my trap and bloom a big, fat, girlin it, just for bait.

Aloha,
Weezard

[DreadedHermie]

Also found a DVR that uses 4, IR lit, color cameras, with field motion detection.

How much? (You find such good electronic bargains.):thumbsup:

[Weezard]

How much? (You find such good electronic bargains.):thumbsup:

$ 260 for the DVR w/a 720Gb. drive.
Cameras were $40 ea. but are small, weathertight and almost invisible at night.
Plan to mount them high and in the center, looking out.
Might even hang a reflectix disk under them to keep the IR off da girls.

Aloha,
Da Weeze

[the image reaper]

Dogs, definitely :thumbsup: ... whether its a big 'tearouttachunkofass' breed (which makes ya happy , but will get ya sued ), or a little ankle-snappin, pissrat breed (which yaps ALL the time :wtf, either will 'guard the yard' :thumbsup: ...

[oldmac]

The dog idea always sounds good but in reality it can be painfull.
Last fall the entire contents of my greenhouse (8'x16') all of which where seeded plants was stolen. I had a german shepard who was an outside dog, and had been trained as a perimeter guard dog. A few years earlier someone tried to poisin him with a pan of anti-freeze, he was trained not to touch it. This time around they poisined him with cooked chop meat laced with strychine. The same poisin placed on raw meat he would not have touched it but because of my own fault of feeding him cooked chicken or chop meat with his meals I made him vulnerable. My own stupidy got him killed.

If you want a method of alerting you to something, get a small flock of geese. They will make a hell of a noise if anything out of the ordinary is going on in thier area or approches thier area.

[Bulster]

Man, sorry to hear about your dog, that beyond sucks.
I have two dogs who sleep up by the house about 80 yards from the grow and it was a windy night... they didn't hear squat, besides, they bark so often I can't get out of bed every time....

As far as a motion detector, doesn't it go off when the wind moves the plants? What about rodents like ground squirrels? I'm not sure that would work. Can anyone chime in on this?

So far I have set up personal alarms, small gizmos of the type where you pull a pin which causes a high pitched 120db sound until the pin is replaced. I tie an improvised 'trip line' to the pin and tie it across the areas where the thief would have to traverse to get to the plants... hell I can even tie it to the plant... who wants to run off with a screaming plant? Anyway, I bought over a hundred of these alarms at a local auction, way more than I need but that was the size of the Lot. You can buy them individually on Ebay for $4-$8 a piece... Or buy them from me since I got way too many now, LOL.

I think my next step will be motion lights outside the grow. Looking at a possible car battery with solar 2 or 5 watt trickle charger. A normal battery should run 500-1000 watts for about 30 minutes.
I'm so damn low on funds though, not sure when I can do this. Looking to see what else I can do NOW that's $50 or less....
Thanks to all who have replied, I love it, I'm getting all kinds of good ideas from your input.

Lastly some good news. The thieves left two immature Sour Diesel plants which are now in full bloom and looking out-freakin-standing!!!!

Later all.....

[Blaze21]

You may want to check out Dakota Alert, they specialize in wireless security equipment.

Their website is: Dakota Alert, Wireless Alarms and Security

They make a wireless MURS system that is quite nice. The sensors are totally weatherproof, have an 80' max detection range, and a 1 mile transmission range over flat ground. (It's more like 1/2 a mile or less if you live in a hilly area though.) The range of the sensor can even be adjusted, and multiple sensors can be used. The handheld receivers can also be used for two-way communication is a base unit is purchased. The base unit can also be set up to turn on lights, set off an alarm, etc. when an alert is triggered.

They are somewhat pricey, and it can take a while to fine tune their alignment but they work very well. One drawback is that something as large as a cat or a skunk or even a large bird like an owl can set them off, so you will get some false alarms. However, the peace of mind is often worth the monetary expense and occasionally getting waken up in the middle of the night by a damn skunk.

[monny10]

Personally I'm in the planning stages for a summer grow and I'm thinking... Security wise.... razorblades, small ankle twisting deadfalls?....tripwires?