I agree. So camouflage is the answer. I don't mean DPM, but if you live in an urban area, there's lots you can do to make your property the least appealing to looters.
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If you live out in the country, at the end of a drive, you can block the entrance with oil drums filled with rocks and topped off with cement.... Anybody trying to get up the drive will be stopped in their tracks and will probably look for an easier target.
That's the secret here. Always try to make someone else's property look like a better choice.
You can tell I've thought about all this before, eh?
Hi Eric,
I agree and disagree with you
I agree that making "next door" look a better prospect is a good tactic, but one day you'll be spotted sneaking in/out of your hideaway and humans are curious creatures. When I put myself in the place of a "hungry looter" gang, the idea that someone is holed up somewhere with a large supply of food seems very appealing. I'd be very interested in attempts to disuade me to go somewhere. Especially if a bit of observation revealed only a few occupants.
I like your cattle grid idea, but I'd suggest a broken cattle grid, looks less suspicious than an empty cattle grid. Just interchange a few broken/damaged poles for the good ones you hide. The grid is still impassable (for vehicles) but doesn't look like it's been made into a barrier.
Anyway, enough picking fault with your plan, here's mine...
My plan is to use a small (can navigate rivers if necessary) trailable sailing boat. When the fan goes stinky I head for the sea. Assuming I make it, I then get well away from the shore (a mile or two out to sea) and head for a nice empty stretch coastline somewhere. A small boat is very easy to hide on a coastline, allows me to travel indefinitely and silently without the need for fuel, provides access to good forraging and means I can steer well clear of settlements and roads. Being anchored 100m offshore in a bay a few miles from the nearest road with the ability to retreat out to sea appeals to me.
Of course looters can drive motorboats, my plan relies on being small, discrete, isolated and mobile.
I'm hoping to build and kit out a small boat specifically for indefinite coastal cruising, but at the moment I'm afraid it's a cruisable sailing dinghy or the calamity will have to wait lol
Here's one of the designs I'm considering:
http://www.geoss.com.au/eun_mara/alec_bermagui.htm
If nothing else, it's a nice flight of fancy and any plan is better than no plan. Plus I get a nice boat
Scoops