S&W!


In actuality, I keep my stuff locked like I live in the ghetto. In reality, I live in a nice neighborhood and good people.

 

I have insurance. Things get stolen, its a fact of life.

 

Thieves get shot .. It is a fact of life ...

 

I have an alarm that I bought in the early 80's when I had a shop in a bad part of town. It has a motion detector and when set off has a buzzer so loud it hurts your ears in a 6,000 sq ft building. It also lights up the building like the sun. Years after I moved out of the building the motion detector stopped working but the units still works in another mode where the light blinks every thirty seconds. I have left it plugged in ever since I moved my shop back to my expanded garage (60' x 22') where it lights the entire garage like day every thirty seconds. It has been going non-stop for almost 30 years now! Like others said, the thieves find the easiest targets. They see the light flashing and find someplace else. Have never had a break in or as far as I can tell even an attempted break in.

 

look into jack shaft openers , mount on side of door and dead bolt through the track once down. I installed about 100 of them

 

They also have an add on that would let you view and alert you through your phone if somehow the door was broken into

 

Hey Jag,
We have a lake place & my goal is to scare off the teenagers as needed.
We use old wireless technology with infrared motion detectors & door switches - works like a champ. Our goal is to produce as much noise as possible - motion detectors set off in sequence - a light module to look like you woke up, (2) hidden wireless ear piercing alarms, then 15 seconds later Robodog goes off. We've never had a problem.

I've also put one in each house/apt. my college age kids are in - no issues - installs in an hour or so.

Look for X-10 wireless products - a very simple set up.

Good luck over there.
Ben in Austin
1950 F1

 

I live in the country and my garage (50 x 100') is 500 feet from my house. I installed door & window contacts, glass breakage detectors and motion sensors, all connected to a siren that would wake up the dead for 1/2 mile.


It is not monitored, and I have no problems, except for the occasional raccoon trying to get in. An AR-15 on a tripod in the main house finalizes the system.


Works great!!

 

I'm thinking it wasn't the axe. I try to avoid all naked men.

My building has all steel doors (reinforced deadbolt into a steel frame) and the lowest windows are 6 feet off of the ground, so they'd have to bring a ladder. The truck has some hidden security and then I have insurance for my final line of defense. The only thing I've ever had stolen off of my property was a 6 foot ladder when I was framing my house.

 

I have a alarm system also have a kill switch on truck that would take them forever to find while alarm is going off they are out of there

 

I have a monitored alarm system that also is loud enough to alert my neighbors, they will respond long before the cops. I padlock every shop overhead door when I am away from home for more than the day so there is no quick getting out if they do gain entry. I also have made sure each deadbolt has a deep enough hole to allow the deadbolt to function correctly. I found out that trick after some creep did pry open the house garage pedestrian door deadbolt. The alarm scared him off (along with my two neighbors) so no loss. My vehicles in the shop are locked up and the keys are not on the premises, the security is on in each of those vehicles. They might get something from me but it darn sure won't be quick or easy.

 

Just think from reading these kind of stories how much time and money is dedicated across the country to thwarting crooks and low life types, it's truly staggering, not to mention increased taxes, fees, insurance rates and the actual losses. Frickin' billions. A meth head snags an A/C compressor and scraps it at 40 bucks. The property owner is out 4000. Nice!

 

I have wireless door sensors on my remote garage workshop doors that will activate my in house alarm system.
How do you protect against a guy with a cordless drill and a nut driver who decides it is easy to remove a steel siding panel? Rely on an inside motion sensor I guess.

 

M400, 590A, and P226.... and word of mouth....

 

We live in the lowest income county in Kansas. My neighborhood isn't that bad. We don't have a garage. All of our vehicles are old enough & just ugly enough, thieves look for easy, more valuable targets. We have six small dogs that get rather barky.
I gave up trying to have nice things a long time ago.