if you drive down my road after dark

[juanbenae]

you are lost, or mad at me....

considering a homemade spike stipe system that will take a minute to roll out and roll up before I drive the road out. Thinking about using those nails that have the 1" or so square bases near the dull end. Pushing them through an old off-road recovery strap and lay it in or out depending on if I was the one coming or going. The upside is if they stick in the tires the strap will wrap around the axle.

How can I make this better?

[pwd72s]

Huh? Rough neighborhood?

[LWJ]

Assume the spikes work. You have now reduced the ability of some very mad person to leave your location. Consider: My wife's family has a VERY nice property in a low rent town and we have never had any issues. Why? There is one road in and it has several homes on the road. It is far too risky to try stupid stuff with only one exit. So nothing happens. My advice, figure out how to engineer the goof balls from coming near you without increasing the antagonism.

[jyl]

A metal gate, like used on forestry roads. Takes less time to swing the gate open than to roll up your spiky mat.

[Heel n Toe]

Why not put some extremely bright spotlights 15-20 feet up a pole (or poles) out somewhere near the road that come on by motion detector with a game camera on the same pole that will capture vehicle and license plate? Might have to experiment with where you mount the camera on the pole or poles.

Just doing bright lights alone might be enough to discourage trespassers.

[KFC911]

I thought you lived next to Hatfield.... or was it McCoy?

A long private drive/road ... I would do what JYL said. I don't have "say so" on the long private rd/drive (my last name is on the state printed sign tho'), but an unbelievable amount of cars/trucks with no bidness being there .... are .

Gate .... and a trail cam monitoring it.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Get an ED 209.

[cockerpunk]

this has far better chance of hurting someone you dont intend than protecting you from someone else.

and your lawyer will pull his/her hair out when they have to defend it in court.

no one is coming for you and your stuff.

[Sooner or later]

Don"t do it halfway.

Removable land mines.

[jcwade]

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by juanbenae

considering a homemade spike stipe system

I use the same system at our cabin. But it is called an unwelcome mat and is deployed to try to prevent bears from breaking in when we are not there. If it works, the bear runs away. He also doesn't sue me. There are also warning signs for people.

I would think this would be considered the same as a booby-trap. Probably illegal in California.

Go with the gate but motorize it to open and close it remotely.

[911 Rod]

I thought you had a big light?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

I thought you had a big light?

LOL!

That's not a light.

THIS is a LIGHT!

[creaturecat]

time to move - if i gotta lay out spikestrips to get a good night's sleep.
what are you gonna do with the stranded "culprits" in your driveway?
lemme guess? shoot 'em?

[911 Rod]

^^ You've taken away the flee option. Now it's just fight.

[fastfredracing]

I was so freaking sick of getting our plumbing stolen, and vandalized at the rentals, that I did , indeed, make boards with nails sticking ouf of them, and I would leave them under the accessible first floor windows when we would leave at the end of the weekend.
Never snared anybody , but I dreamt about it .

[Jeff Higgins]

The "friendly" way to do this is to put up a gate with a prominent "no trespassing" sign on it. Your proposal is just asking for trouble. If I were lost out in rural America, pulled into a driveway or private road to turn around and encountered your "solution", it would turn into a very, very bad day for you. Think "lawyers guns and money"... Not necessarily in that order.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

this has far better chance of hurting someone you dont intend than protecting you from someone else.

and your lawyer will pull his/her hair out when they have to defend it in court.

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

The "friendly" way to do this is to put up a gate with a prominent "no trespassing" sign on it. Your proposal is just asking for trouble. If I were lost out in rural America, pulled into a driveway or private road to turn around and encountered your "solution", it would turn into a very, very bad day for you. Think "lawyers guns and money"... Not necessarily in that order.

I had to talk to my lawyer son today about getting back to SC again help my sister with the storm damage and I brought this up. While he isn't familiar with California law, he said in Virginia where he practices this would fly like a lead sled in court...it would not go well for any number of reasons he enumerated that I did not understand.

Like CP and Jeff mentioned, you will be at fault...get a gate.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

Get an ED 209.

Explosive Device 209?

Seems like overkill .... and perfect

A Gate or a Gator ... yer call!

[Bill Douglas]

This may work for you. It contains a shotshell primer. So sounds a bit like a .22 going off next to your ear. And legal. You could set it up inside a tool box or attach it to a shed door that you never use yourself.