In his defense, he did mistaken it for a charging bear, so it was totally OK. 😉
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In his defense, he did mistaken it for a charging bear, so it was totally OK. 😉
I told the wife I was going to put up a sign stating that "This land has been certified to contain an extremely high concentration of Rattlesnakes and Copperheads. Access is restricted to authorized personnel only." But she felt I might be laying out a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I still think it was a good idea. Fortunately (insert woodknocking sound here), we have had no issues with theft or strangers on our property. Or snakes for that matter. We have only seen one so far, and it was just some variety of the black snake.
I invited them to call the sheriff. Coming on to my posted private property with a firearm is a felony. As far as I'm concerned I was just target practicing. They knew they weren't supposed to be there.Quote:
Originally Posted by rreidnauer
Would have been a better story if they had somehow parked over top of 3-4 pounds of Tannerite
This was in 2008, I didn't know about tannerite back then. LolQuote:
Originally Posted by rckclmbr428
How 'bout a sign that states, "The sounds of banjos have been heard in these woods"
It can happen! When Jake (Son) was about 7 years old, we found him an Australian Sheppard pup for his very own. We had to train the pup to stay away from the paved road and still be an outside mostly dog. I helped Jake run 100 yards (900 microkilometers) of hot wire through the woods but then there was that big open hole that we call a driveway.Quote:
Originally Posted by rreidnauer
I gave him a motion sensor light setup with a 2 prong 110v adapter and I bootlegged power over to the tree that we didn't want the dog to pass. Jake set up the motion sensor to play his boombox for 15 seconds every time the motion sensor was tripped. Then he filled a cassette (a cassette is like a thumb drive but it is more mechanical) with sounds of him catching the pup doing something wrong. He yelled "hey you!' and clapped his hands, and whistled, and real slow and mean like said stuff like "you git home NOW!". He had a blast recording both sides of the cassette and then we watched her closely the first few times she tried to sneak out the driveway. Worked like a charm.
It worked so good that the neighbor kid was scared scootless one time. I was doing dishes and looking straight out the driveway. The neighbor kid (15 years old or so) was running up and down the road on his dirt bike. Suddenly he coasted in our driveway (something he'd never done before) and stopped dead. He looked around and I was thinking he was looking for something to steal. Suddenly he fired up and made for home.
Next day his Dad saw me on the road and flagged me down. He wanted to make sure that we weren't mad at son, Taylor, for coming in our driveway looking for his sister's horse. He said someone was hiding and yelling at him to "git home right NOW!". I told him what was up and said Taylor was welcome any time. Never saw him again on the place.
Banjos coming from several places in the woods would work.
Can you explain how this cassette thing works for us young'uns?Quote:
Originally Posted by loghousenut
That depends.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arrowman
Metric cassettes or standard cassettes?
They use different players and playback speeds, and the metric ones require you to use a voltage converter to 220v.
I think LHN has a few of them laying around mixed in with his 8-track collection.
A cassette is a box made out of Bakelite that has a ribbon made outa brown bread wrapper that has a bunch of microscopic transistors and resistors glued to it. You stick the whole shebang on a machine that somehow records and unrecords stuff as it passes the tape through a magic slot. I think it is kinda like what happens in a floppy disc except it is a lot floppier.
All this happens almost as quick as instantaneously... once the tubes warm up.
I don't know how they do it all nowadays, but the cassettes were a lot more slicker a setup than a record on a record player was.
Sounds complicated. You old fogey's. Nowadays we just hit a button on the iPhone and it starts recording. Cassette sounds like stone age stuff to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by loghousenut
Banjos are kinda stoneageish too, but I think the right banjo music might run a shiver through a trespasser.
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Why not some kind of sign that warns of your mining operation and a possible deadly lead and copper contamination to anyone entering your property without permission?
This also begs the question: How many of the younger crowd understands the significance of the Banjo music referred to.
Quite a few I would guess. Far more interwebz memes about Banjo music than cassette players.Quote:
Originally Posted by edkemper
That hurt. <Smile> The cassettes were long before that music. 8-track or the prior 4-track tapes, even fewer understand. For those of us with a few years, we might also remember back when a record player, in the car, was the first selectable music, when the AM radio was still an option. It was many years before even the Muncie (???) 4-track.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arrowman
I'm just kidding about the cassettes anyways. I was really the cd generation (I'm either on the very high end of the Millenial age group or a year over it, depending on who defines it). But because I was too cheap to buy cd's, I used to have a cassette ready in the right spot on the tape to record a song I liked when it came on the radio. When I heard the first notes I would dash over to the radio and hit play and record at the same time to catch the song so I could listen to it in my Walkman later on. This was about 5-7 years before Napster. And then my whole world changed...Quote:
Originally Posted by edkemper
Here are a couple of my signs. One is from the Log Home Builders Association.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...k/IMG_1206.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...k/IMG_1207.jpg
This is the sign that ended up nailed to the pine tree out near our road, just after a visit from one of our LHBA friends. The wind blew it down and I better nailed it back up. It is still there and seems to do the job.
https://i.imgur.com/G1TnC8W.jpg
Jumping on the rattlesnake suggestion above.
Official looking sign: "Rattlesnake deliveries at south gate"
Handwritten sign: DON'T JUST DROP THEM HERE LIKE YOU DID LAST TIME!
Does the Log Home Builders Association still sell no trespassing signs?
Here's a pretty good one:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....L._SL1500_.jpg
Does the LHBA still sell the no trespassing signs? We would love to buy a few if we could!
No, we don't carry those any longer. There are lots of similar signs available online if you search around a bit.
Ok. Thanks, Steve.