[SBE] Copper Thefts

[k7cr]

In this area (Seattle) our very best natural barrier are blackberry's. 
They
grow 10 or more feet tall and are almost impossible to penetrate...but then
a transmitter site will have a gate to let us, and the crack-heads, enter.

A comment about Chain Link fences - My, under the seat at all times,
bolt cutters will make quick work of them.  The bad-guys have 'em too.

Clay Freinwald
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R. V. Zeigler" <rzeigler at krvn.com>




>I seem to remember that the military had tested a hedge that, once

> established, could not be driven through and was very "discouraging" to

> anyone attempting to climb over, under, or around it. While I lived in

> Kansas we had what we called Hedge trees that, again, once established

> were impenetrable to vehicles as well as younger trees in the stand

> having thorns that were capable of penetrating boot soles. This I found

> out from experience. I cut a number of them for firewood and they will

> cause your chain to throw sparks if you cut up the dead branches. The

> branches are used for fence posts and are practically impossible to

> break. Maybe a combination of the standing hedge and Hedge (Osage

> Orange) trees would be a Green partial solution to site security.

> Rod

>

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> R. V. Zeigler, Dir. of Eng.

>