Fence stakes pulled out of the ground!.

dasheriff

There has been trouble around here since my granfathers time with a particular family boundsing us letting there cattle on to our land and stealing the likes of fencing supplies at night..I went down to the shed the other morning and there was 2 rolls of high tensile wire gone and then this morning there was 2 new straining polls pulled clean out of the ground and 4 normal polls gone..
Sorry for my rant but have any of ye ever come across anything like this before and have ye any advice for me to stop it, after 5 years of it myself im fairly sick of it..

AtillaTheHun

go lamping;)

this just a particular boundary?

johngalway

Report every incident to the Gardai, even if you can't prove who's doing it.

If you can position an infra red trail/game camera somewhere in the shed you may be able to photograph them in the act and have your proof. They emit a subtle red glow, but no white flash.

Or, if you have lights in the shed, rig them up to a sensor so they come on automatically, and use a regular flash game/trail camera. Just cover the flash with tape and let the camera use the shed lights.

Set up the camera watching something juicy that they'd rob.

pakalasa

I arrived into our field one day to find over 100 mts of the boundary had been burnt away. I assumed, as did the rest of the family that it was the farmer on the other side that did it. Lets just say he was 'known to the Gardai' and was a bit of an absentee farmer. I was fuming, but I did the wise thing and just fenced it back up and said nothing.
About 6 months later, another farmer in the area approached my brother in the pub to confess that it was him that burnt it. The same guy had a habit of burning the edges of the road that we all share. He'd do this in fine weather. He was a smoker and did it as he'd walk his dogs along the road. I reckon he tried to burn a bit and it got out of hand.

Morale of the story - well, get proof first.;)

dasheriff

AtillaTheHun wrote: »

go lamping;)

this just a particular boundary?

It acounts for a good third of my overall boundary, its hard to watch but im goin to spend lot more time around alright..

dasheriff

Yeah i think a camera is a goo way to go alright an get abit of proof i was considering reporting it to the gards alright i suppose they would have to take record of everything..

Rosahane

Here's a good value stealthcam, will even video:cool:

http://www.heinnie.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=102&P_ID=5238

Heinnie have great service!

johngalway

I'd rely on still images. The problem with video, in lower light situations, is it's often likened to that brown stuff that comes out a cows backside

mantua

Your not alone because we have lovely neighbours who do love to scare the cattle when we are walking them over the road to a different field and also used to cut wire in the fields and let cattle go everywhere!!:mad: their the same fellows who were to tight to get rid of a scrap car properly so they brought it down the bog and drenched it in petrol and shot at it not knowing how big the flames would be and getting their faces scalded:) they were the same men standing at the back of the church with faces on them like a baboons arses for the next 3 weeks:D:D
What goes around comes around so they'll get whats coming to them sooner or later but definelty think about cameras or better yet a dog whether it be big or small they all can be heard

leoch

hi rosahane that camera looks a good job and not to dear does it run on batteries or just the mains do u know?

johngalway

Depends on how much or little homework you want to do, different cameras have wildly differing abilities.

Two sites I would read cover to cover if I was buying another would be:

trailcampro

chasingame

Both will give reviews independent of the manufacturer and one has a camera forum which I believe includes security issues.

leoch

i would like to get a camers so i could put it in the hill or wooded area to catch the deer and foxes and wat ever else ,it is a fair bit away from the house so mains power is no good needs to be battery operated, any suggestions?

johngalway

leoch wrote: »

i would like to get a camers so i could put it in the hill or wooded area to catch the deer and foxes and wat ever else ,it is a fair bit away from the house so mains power is no good needs to be battery operated, any suggestions?

http://cgi.ebay.ie/MOULTRIE-GAME-SPY-D55-D-55-5-0-MP-DIGITAL-GAME-CAMERA-/220758199825?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item336636ce11

220758199825

MOULTRIE GAME SPY D55 D-55 5.0 MP DIGITAL GAME CAMERA

My wonderful girlfriend bought me one of the above for Christmas. It will tell you temperature, phase of the moon, date, time and any name you wish to assign to the camera.

It's a flash camera and if it'll catch out a fox, which it has done for me, it'll catch a deer no problem.

Figerty

Sound like you need to lay some bait also. A few cans of dirty diesel laced with sugar or something that if they steal the will suffer with; something to tempt them out. And of course the camera to catch them in the act...

dasheriff wrote: »

It acounts for a good third of my overall boundary, its hard to watch but im goin to spend lot more time around alright..

Rosahane

leoch wrote: »

hi rosahane that camera looks a good job and not to dear does it run on batteries or just the mains do u know?

I don't know anything about it, just spotted it on the site and it seems to be good value. I would think that it runs solely on batteries. Run a google search for a review and see what they say.
I can recommend Heinnie as I get a lot of bits from them and while not necessarily the cheapest are absolutely reliable, safe and fast.