I had a neighbor stealing gas, so I put a bunch of screws in a scrap of plywood then connected every other screw to positive and the others to negative and plunged it in to the wall.. took a few nights before I got results.. finally heard one heck of a hollering scream. I went out a few minutes later found a gas can and hose on the ground. next morning I seen the neighbor walking with a crutch trying real hard not to put his foot down.. and I never had gas stolen outa my vehicles again.
A man I met kept having thugs climbing over his privacy fence to burglarize his home. He lined the top of the fence just on the inside where fingers would grab with carpet tack strips. He gets home from work and finds blood and tissue on the strip. Home was secure.
Don't do that here I Commiefornia. That's considered a booby trap and not only will you get in trouble for having it, the intruder can actually sue you for damages.
I agree! I was beat up and robbed by 3 assholes. I say, I now have no tresspassing signs, a locked gate and locked doors.(and other deturants), anyone who comes through and is in my home, deserves what they git!!!
The problem is people will invinte people into there home and then kill them, then say it was an accident. He just came over too watch a movie but accidently stepped on my land mine, I warned him I had a pet in the house... you see what I mean? some people are fucking psycho.
Great video. I've made and tested many different shapes and sizes and I've settled on the smallest rod to use is 3/8" with EACH spike being 3.5" long and that will stand up to and penatrate a 2.5 ton military truck tire with no problem. Anything smaller, and they could bend unless you're using hardened steel, but after welding them together, you've lost that hardness to some degree. Also, shorter spike length will sink into softer ground when run over and may not penatrate the tire completely. Another thing I tested was using tubing cut at an angle and then slide the sharpened tubing over a solid round spike. Now when the tire rolls over the caltrop, the solid spike supports the thinner tubing, and is strong enough to penatrate the tire along with the tubing, and the caltrop then falls out or is blown out by air pressure and the tubing stays in the tire and it goes flat FAST. You can even use tubing on the type of caltrop you have here, just tape them onto the spike and it will work fine. It doesn't have to be laying flat like the police type that stretch across the road. Just a few ideas I've tested and come up with and thought I'd share. Keep up the great work.
@@gregorythomas333 Last 4 sentances of Unintended Consequences: President: "....It was when I asked him if he really had business to attend to in Missouri." First Lady: "what did he say?" Prrsident: "He said yes. He said he had to go feed his hogs." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
deep fried marbles. heating and rapid cooling puts fault lines in them but they hold together well enough to use in a sling shot. they hit something or someone and shatter into shards
Interesting. If anything, these shattered marbles are quite the beauty, almost gemstone-like. I have no idea what kind of wound channel that would leave, however, as I couldn't find any video on the subject.
I saw you on an episode of a recent prepper show and thought your set up and knowledge was the absolute best of all the shows to date. Please keep your videos coming! Although I underwent small infantry unit style training in the military, I still learn a ton from your expertise and training. THANK YOU!!!
The ninja also used these. They were called tetsu-bishi. Very effective against straw sandals. we've wielded combine blades perpendicular to each other. with the serrated edge up, it would easily shred tires. Thanks for the video! Stay safe.
JayXX, the reason its illegal in Illinois is to prevent the criminals or police from getting injured when they home invade your house. I lived in the Chicago area of 8 years when i was based at O'Hare A/P all i can say is ...... NEVER AGAIN will i live in Illinois. if the Politicians/Criminals don't screw you over first the unions will. I would rather see what happened to Detroit happen to Chicago instead.
Sam Brandt That and Chicago and its crooked politicians try to make everything illegal and impose fines for everything. Largely Chicago politicians have been running Illinois most of the time and burying it. I'm looking to move but my current work pays me well for my toys and preps. I thought about moving to Indiana but was thinking of Wyoming or Montana. I'd love to move to one of several southern states but I can't handle the heat.
Hey 73Corbin, how do you like your suppressors? I have considered getting one but don't like that the ATF have to give you their blessing. To many hands reaching in my pocket.
its not the heat, its the heat with humidity. I don't like it either. I was based for a while in So Cal and got spoiled in the dry air. I could handle 120 degree heat on the flight line working around almost all black aircraft. now if it goes over 80 and there is any humidity i stay inside as much as i can. So I join you in your dislike for the south. Other than that it has some really nice places to live. I have lived in several southern states.
Very good idea. Never heard of these, always learning something new. Hope to God we never get to this point. Thank you for doing what you do. You are by far the best channel I have!
I had a local criminal jump my locked 6' wood gate. Police did nothing and HOA said I was not allowed to build an 8' gate/fence. So I rebuilt the 6' gate and to make it stronger, there was a top strip of wood with 40 screws through it to keep all the pickets secure. I saw blood and some skin on the gate 2 days later, and just 2 days after that, I saw the local criminal walking down the street with bandaged hands. This didn't stop him and his family of brothers, cousins and friends as they have been breaking into homes and cars for years. Police do nothing because their lives matter I guess. But this is Texas... so a motion alarm and my shotgun aren't considered a trap... Stand your ground and the Castle law are a blessing.
Copper brake/fuel line about an inch and half long with exterior scruffed up by a wire brush, slips over nails to make stop stick quills :D worked pretty good in former Yugoslavia
Where I live in England there are alot of Victorian street houses. Alot of the brick walled gardens have cemented broken glass on the top from the 50s. It's illegal to do now but there are alot still up. Lots of green bottles and milk bottles were used.
Roofing tar and roofing nails on any flat surface. The tar will let the nails stay on as you move the board and still let them break away without dragging the board with the foot leaving it in place to catch more. The nails have a nice large head for extra surface area for the tar to hold them on and the tar will help the board last longer when deployed. When storing remember to have paired boards so you can store them spikes in and include a way to strap them together to reduce accident chances. Caltrops should be in a hard sided box to prevent them from ripping/puncturing a cloth or cardboard box. Nothing like getting a foot full of spikes because they spilled in the spot you store them in. Fishing hooks and line also make a good area control method as you can string them up in weaker spots and it really slows how fast any group wants to move in any light. Small hard to see and still gives you clear fire lanes.
I grew up in Guatemala, and most houses have some sort of perimeter wall. A lot of times people will affix broken glass bottles (beer, pepsi, etc) to the top of the block walls with concrete. Just lay a layer of concrete down and stick the broken bottles in, so that people can't climb over your walls. They also put v-shaped nails along the top of walls too. Razor wire and barbed wire too, but the broken bottles is cheap and can't be cut like wire. A lot of times they will stick the broken bottles on window sills.
David, I had to drive through a picket line for 6 months a long time ago. They used those to throw under our cars when we drove into or out of work.Our company bought us new tires. They were made out of nails and worked well.
Quick tip to preppers, 1. windows: use planks to board up every part other than 1 plank size spot to look through window 2, outdoor cover: make vietnam style rat hole with wood trapdoor or dirt piles. hope this helped all the preppers out there
Very nice... I have a few deflating strips however I tell people to use hardened metal tubing to make what you are showing. It is a 50% faster deflation rate and would also reduce roll overs... If that was your intention... Also tell your viewers that if the SHTF just use a box of 1 1/4'' roofing nails...Not Aluminium nails!! Must be Galvanized nails...They also work... All of this statement was just an opinion to assist anyone who needed this type information... Peace! Great Post
These are perfectly legal to use in Grizzly territory as a bear deterrent. Place them around your storage buildings to keep the bears from getting in to your supplies. Just make sure they're visible.
was thinking more of have it so visible no one can say you didnt mark them. Or the laugh value if someone comes sneaking in at night and misses them then tries to sue. Nothing like a picture of something bright pink and the person saying they couldnt see it.
AZ, I agree about using nail strips to protect your food and home in Bear territory. I will go as far as to say its very necessary. However they can be avoided because they are in front of your door. laying something like this all over the woods is not a good idea. you DON'T want to "NAIL" yourself or a family member.
@@sambrandt3688 You ALSO really DON'T want to have a grizzly bear(or ANY bear, for that matter) walking around in your area with a nail stuck in its foot, especially if it gets infected! All bears are potentially dangerous to begin with, and a crippled and in pain bear even more so!
As a farmer, I had a constant stream of trespassing hunters driving onto my land. Putting signs up seemed to make it worse not better. Put up a camera, but it kept getting triggered by wind blowing the trees. Finally I welded up some bits of scrap metal in various designs and tossed them in leaf litter on the track. I got the same neigbour twice haha😂😂.He demanded new tyres. I invited him to explain to the local police how he was on my property without permission when he encountered some junk metal i had left lying around. Obviously he declined the invitation, and bought his own tyres. No more trouble since. 😊
when I was in Somalia people there would take cement and put it on top of their walls surrounding their huts or house. then they would take broken shards of glass and place it in the wet cement, when it dried it was a poor man's concertina wire on top of the wall.
I just leave scrap metal and demolition debris around my shop. Effective, impresses the neighbors and keeps those pesky real estate taxes low from depressed value.
when they're loose... I've always known them as Jumping Jacks ... Awesome idea and video ... I hadn't thought about adding these ... the only drawback is they are in discriminant ,.. once they're out they're out and May hurt you .. ..
These become much more effect placed in an area where you have channeled your attacker, using say downed tree tops, drunkards path fencing, paths created through thick groves of trees or briar bushes. Don't forget creek beds passing near your retreat, fence lines or ridges overlooking your compound. Keep in mind that smaller diameter nails are more effective at puncturing tough shoe soles and screws are much sharper and very tough to pull out. Another idea is post holes with sharpened rebar spikes, either pointing straight up from the bottom (drill a hole through a 2x6 board and place spike though hole) or drive sharp end first, diagonally from the top edge of the hole (about 12" out) into the wall of the hole. Three triangulated spikes (3/8" dia.) can make it nearly impossible to pull a leg out without help. Such devices may not create a devastating injury but certainly crumble the morale of intruders. Like you mentioned though these are preps best delayed until an event is underway. Nevertheless you should have a post hole drill and spikes prepared ahead of SHTF, so that you can quickly make a vulnerable area impassable. Another thought concerning a perimeter fence is the placing of cheap "gaucho" barbed wire (the sharpest I've found) in loops just inside your perimeter fence. Anyone jumping the fence will be snarled and slowed making a much better target, if they dare jump at all. This fence should be affixed to the ground along sharpened spikes.
a half sheet of plywood full of nails painted to match to color of your carpet or floor, placed just beyond the opening distance of a door, could give an entry team something to think about.
Most swat boots have a steel plate in them to prevent punctures. It will still slow them down as they have something stuck in the materials but it cant make it to the foot inside without a lucky strike to the side and in.
even a lot of the old VN boots have solid bottoms for the same basic reason. So you don't get skewered. Learned a lot as a kid at gunshows... But nobody anymore really learns any of this stuff. Another fading art.
When the day comes that you use these, there will be no more law!!! And that day is approaching quickly, no matter who's elected!!! God Bless :-) And keep your powder dry!!!
That's because we live in a country of pussies. Too many people so blinded by sports or celebrity bullshit that they don't know what reality is... They don't see what's under their noses because they believe everything the news puts out... "If it's on the internet it must be true, right?" Same thing as the news, they believe what they want to believe and enjoy the freedom to stay ignorant about such matters.
You are a fool if you think Trump will cause the same damage as Hillary. Stop listening to the mainstream media and watch a rally or two. He is saying exactly what we rant about for years. If you do not vote, you are part of the problem. Don't bother fighting for SHTF if you won't fight today.
These are called “jackrocks” in the West Virginia coal fields. Striking miners would litter the roads leading into the mines with them to keep strike breakers from mining. They would also light road flares and throw them into loaded coal train cars which would usually end with the train being a puddle of molten metal. Coal burns HOT.
i remember coming across this video a couple years ago and thought wow, now I’m at a point where I can actually weld up some stuff.. I have to say.. my mental gears won’t stop turning 😊
I got these on my property for the dirt bikers and atvs that are terrorizing my family even though we have no trespassing signs everywhere! Thanks for the tip!
i like to make an area that someone could use as cover not to give them a place to hide but it being the only area to hide effectively it will put them exactly where you know they will be and make it easier to control there movement and what they can do and also make sure there is a way for you to tell if someone is there without them knowing you know
Samurai and ninja's used them to fumble anyony persuing them. used in the netherlands a couple years back; spread out in front of nearby policestations noadays people don't expect to see these used so potentially very effective!
I've seen some made with a garden hose and nails. The hose was cut to about 4 inches long, with 3 nails in various directions, ensuring that there was always one spike facing upwards.
In Korea the ROK troops had strips with chain welded to them. The base was plate steel and the spikes were sharpened sections of rebar 6"-10" in length. They were usually painted yellow and seen along the sides of bridges. When needed a couple ROK troops left their positions, grabbed the chains, and pulled them from the sides across the roadway. While they did that a couple others would roll I-beam hedgehogs in place behind them. The strips would slow wheeled vehicles and the hedgehogs tracked.
Excellent and very true... Should have a bunch of theses stocked. I use old retired fire house and nails. Why haven't I ran across your channel before, weird, subbed great stuff..
If you wanted to, you could use a piece of mesh over the top of them when spray painting to give them a speckled pattern to break up there outline more than a single color. It may be too much effort, but it's a thought.
A Headsup Yes, that was done in Vietnam. Very nasty thing to do to another human being tho. There were also foot traps that were on hinges, such that the foot would fall in a few inches, but levers swung up to puncture the ankle: medial & distal. Not a life threatening wound, but it would soon become infected. Puncture wounds are the worst.
Seen these before interesting idea used in small unit tactics. Perhaps to funnel op forces into. A possible tedious (fabrication) and a bit impractical counter measure would be to fit insoles made out of correction soft armor that is shank and ice pick resistant. Not sure exactly how effective but much better than a rubber sole I'd guess. May need larger and or wider boot to hold something like that. A mountaineering boot with built in rocker prob the most ideal for something to make caltrop resistant. Since they are so incredibly stiff to begin with. Or custom multi hinged ar500 plates cut to foot shape and maybe 1/8" to minimize shoe size alterations. As is said impractical but for those who are bored. 😀
This is good for when you have a home to defend when SHTF and there’s no civilization. However, the problem most people are waking up to as of this post is not having a home any more due to not being able to pay the mortgage. It ain’t nameless faceless raiders that come to kick you out of your home when that happens, it’s the police. A SHTF situation that I think we need to prep for is getting kicked out of our homes before society collapses, because that’s what is happening these days. People need to know how to camp, how to bushcraft, how to forage, etc. If you lose your job, you can’t get a new one, and it’s looking like you’re gonna get evicted from your own home, you need a backup plan. If that doesn’t involve moving in with someone else, then you need to know how to survive in your local wild lands. I’m telling you, long before society collapses, the banks will kick as many people out of their houses as they can what lost their jobs to no fault of their own.
Where I grew up there were these mud pits. Kids would always go ride their dirt bikes back there. This older gentlemen hated the noise. So he made a bunch of these, hoping to pop their tires, and hid them in the mud (along with nails and rebar). What he didn’t account for was a boy falling off the back of his older brother’s four wheeler and sustaining massive injury to his popliteal and brachial arteries. He’d lost over two liters of blood in mere minutes. He’d have died no matter what before any ambulance could get there or anyone could get to them then drive the 16 minutes it took the get to the hospital. His brother’s friend had to ride a mile just to get back to their house to tell an adult. His brother put a belt around his upper arm under his shoulder and was applying pressure to the area but they didn’t really have the means or knowledge to attend to his popliteal artery, let alone properly treat the brachial artery trauma. Not to mention he sustained a shit ton of other damage. This dumbass even had rebar sticking up which almost killed another person a few weeks before, but they didn’t realize it had been intentionally been put there. He’d fallen off his bike and damn dear landed right on it. Scratched his side all to hell but he got lucky. These things are no joke. Stepping or falling in them is no joke. So I’m glad you advise people not to go make them willynily and include the fact that they’re illegal in many places. If one of these were to get misplaced out in a field or yard or around children in the home..it could be bad. I remember the newspaper headlining it like “Man Plays A Deadly Game Of Jacks And Pays With His Freedom & Eastern Shore 8 Year Old’s Life”. These things have always scared me. Hell, even putting upright nails in the dirt can be bad for someone who steps or falls on them. But these things...yikes.
My understanding is that in vietnam they used to coat the sharpened bamboo with human excrement to add infection. Perhaps there are other coatings that would add to the effectiveness.
Don't know if you've seen them or not but they make some huge fence post staples now, would be great use for those and not to pricey, with just a quick weld together.
100% lawful to buy/make/sell/trade/operate in EVERY state. shall not be infringed, brothers. in this country we have laws against certain actions, not against inanimate objects.
Where i live we struggle with burglaries at a daily rate. Made caltrops tied too thick fishing line. Laid it a few feet from the wall. After a few weeks of putting it out the thieves gave up. Still throw them out every night and putting it away when we are at home.
I had some odd pieces of cattle panels laying around. With bolt cutters and a vise, I made several dozen. I keep some in my truck too. Just in case! I also have 1000 feet of concertina wire!
Those things work best in high grass or covered by leaves. An alternative would be to use bamboo half burried in the ground or glass shards sticking out. Together with tripping wires they can be even more deadly (even without someone injuring his foot might fall into more spikes). On the other hand putting nail boards out keeping them in plain sight is a different story. They can be still very effective at keeping people from breaking through your glass doors etc.
Other options you can do are the more or less easy vietnam/ indochina options. Also interesting might be the option of a piece of wood, pipe, a nail and a shotgun, pistol or rifle shell. Different kinds of barbed wired can be used in a lot of different ways (i have at least half a dozen, maybe even a full out of my head) What might be an other idea is plant stuff so you can chanell aproches. On a larger scale (and what might be a option for you ) is to make a imprivised bridge on a choke point where you made a big hole in the street, a bridge "got lost" or whatever. This way you can cut whole regions off, especiall in the us, from land vehicles and you know how it is. I won`t go into details but there are a lot of options on how this can be done and turn out. I don`t know if i posted this under one of your videos a while ago but this is also a nice, energy preserving option.: ua-cam.com/video/HsOmSTIIswI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/_dMLzAxX-oc/v-deo.html It is in german but i think you can figure it out. If you need a translation let me know. There are many different options which work on the same principles. All what knowledge and stuff does is giving you options.
So if I set them in my house and someone enters my home to rob me, I can get sued if they step on one? You must have said that as a disclaimer to protect yourself. If I have an intruder entering my home they are as good as dead.
A man broke into a house when the family was away for a week. He locked himself in the garage, being not terribly bright. He subsisted on dog food and warm soda until they came home and found him. When the criminal got a lawyer he sued and won. Some sort of cruelty thing. I can't believe that the jury decided in his favor.
Long time ago I nailed large nails up in a board and put it in front of my mail box to stop certain ones driving by knocking our mail box off..., it worked but not intended for the person it worked on
My neighbor used jack rocks when his union went on strike. He said they are very effective on pickup truck tires. I am surprised no one used these in Ontario.
get some nets and reinforce them with wire or use a wire mesh and then weld some barbed caltrops to it to stop vehicles. The Barbs keep the caltrops in place and then the net wraps around the axel stopping the vehicle in about a dozen yards provided it doesn't break.
If you make small ones using thin steel tubing with a slash cut on the end the tubing can be filled with excrement of whatever flavour is handy, it will immobilise those on foot if they step on them, and also give them serious infections which will take them out of the fight in a couple of days completely.
There are some high security neighborhoods on the edge of Portland where those are just built into the roadway. If you go the wrong way on the one way driveway (like bypassing the gates), they shred your tires.
Broken glass inbeded in cement at the top of block walls works good for security as well as tossing some out out on the ground/ floor makes for fairly good early warning system
I have a thick bush in front of my front-room window. The clearance between that bush and the front window is maybe 1 foot. Nobody accidentally walks behind that bush, it's too much out-of-the-way. The only reason to be there would be to look in, or break in that window. Thanks for the ideas.
The Union did use caltrops during the civil war. All companies from both the first and second regiment of United States Sharpshooters (Berdan Sharpshooters)carried pouches of them. The Berdans used them to slow down the Confederate cavalry which pursued them if the Union was routed from the field, effectively turning them into dismounted cavalry making them an easier target.
good idea, simple ,cheap and semi effective. Thorn bushes outside your windows which I( use are a similar sort of thing. Except thorn bushes don't get ya sued.
I had a neighbor stealing gas, so I put a bunch of screws in a scrap of plywood then connected every other screw to positive and the others to negative and plunged it in to the wall.. took a few nights before I got results..
finally heard one heck of a hollering scream. I went out a few minutes later found a gas can and hose on the ground. next morning I seen the neighbor walking with a crutch trying real hard not to put his foot down..
and I never had gas stolen outa my vehicles again.
Stacue of limitation is 7yrs on any Felony ecsept rape and murder. So 5more years to go.
I dont feel sorry for thieves if they run into some misfortune.
Not a true story but cool
@@elijhagarcia6595 my state has no statute of limitations on felonies.
I won't tell.
Remember.....your enemy has no laws. If you really think the police will save you.....they better get there faster than 30 seconds.....
If more responsible people new.😵
No, the police are now standing down . THEY ARE BEING TOLD TO STAND DOWN! CRIME IS NOW ALLOWED, if people dont see that, then they ARE BLIND
K.I.S.S Keep It Simple Survival Better to be judged by 12, than carried by 6
@@DeborahDugger-nf4gg they only stand down to violent liberal protesters. As soon as you defend yourself the police will arrest you.
We're on our own. LE no longer exists. We are the law
A man I met kept having thugs climbing over his privacy fence to burglarize his home. He lined the top of the fence just on the inside where fingers would grab with carpet tack strips. He gets home from work and finds blood and tissue on the strip. Home was secure.
Spray some AIDS on the fucking thing for maximum results
Don't do that here I Commiefornia. That's considered a booby trap and not only will you get in trouble for having it, the intruder can actually sue you for damages.
lmao
RBG0979 nice
Good idea.....however. If its harms someone and it is considered a "man trap" you're toast. In SHTF though.....all bets are off.
"illegal in some states"
im not even gonna look this up...
-Californians
lmao....comedy[butNOT]
Evocati Thinking about talking about making them may be a felony in Californistan and here in Chiraq.
Yep, exactly what I thought when he said that... “california for sure” lol
Tommy Wright probably nj and mass too
@@eggularbagel where?
You should be able to use anything on your own property with a no trespassing sign,that's what i think
Just some clear signage, 'ACHTUNG!! MINEN!!' is all I'm going to offer as ample warning.
I agree! I was beat up and robbed by 3 assholes. I say, I now have no tresspassing signs, a locked gate and locked doors.(and other deturants), anyone who comes through and is in my home, deserves what they git!!!
The problem is people will invinte people into there home and then kill them, then say it was an accident. He just came over too watch a movie but accidently stepped on my land mine, I warned him I had a pet in the house... you see what I mean? some people are fucking psycho.
*me using a fucking nuke*
@J good point also if the police had to legally go on to your property to get somone. Paramedics trying to save your life or something
Great video. I've made and tested many different shapes and sizes and I've settled on the smallest rod to use is 3/8" with EACH spike being 3.5" long and that will stand up to and penatrate a 2.5 ton military truck tire with no problem. Anything smaller, and they could bend unless you're using hardened steel, but after welding them together, you've lost that hardness to some degree. Also, shorter spike length will sink into softer ground when run over and may not penatrate the tire completely.
Another thing I tested was using tubing cut at an angle and then slide the sharpened tubing over a solid round spike. Now when the tire rolls over the caltrop, the solid spike supports the thinner tubing, and is strong enough to penatrate the tire along with the tubing, and the caltrop then falls out or is blown out by air pressure and the tubing stays in the tire and it goes flat FAST.
You can even use tubing on the type of caltrop you have here, just tape them onto the spike and it will work fine. It doesn't have to be laying flat like the police type that stretch across the road.
Just a few ideas I've tested and come up with and thought I'd share. Keep up the great work.
You won't be seriously sued if they never find the trespasser. Just saying.
One of my favorite quotes: don't mess with me, I got 40 acres and a backhoe!
I'm a native btw.... live in CO now though...
He could put a bean bag shell in it if he's worried about the thieve dieing.
A friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a body.
A best friend owns a hog farm :)
@@gregorythomas333 Last 4 sentances of Unintended Consequences:
President: "....It was when I asked him if he really had business to attend to in Missouri."
First Lady: "what did he say?"
Prrsident: "He said yes. He said he had to go feed his hogs." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
deep fried marbles. heating and rapid cooling puts fault lines in them but they hold together well enough to use in a sling shot. they hit something or someone and shatter into shards
Oh wow, thanks.
i just learned something
sharpnel! I like it
Hell to the yeah
Interesting. If anything, these shattered marbles are quite the beauty, almost gemstone-like. I have no idea what kind of wound channel that would leave, however, as I couldn't find any video on the subject.
Just never forget where you dropped them at!
metal detector heh, yeah. broken glass though, that's just.... glass cuts are a whole other level.
right invest in a metal detector!
could always map out your property and mark the areas where theyre placed. Much cheaper solution.
I doubt I'd carry a metal detector with me at all times, but a map of the dangerous areas would be useful.
IDOALL i want a metal detector :( and a map of dangerous areas!
*Legos are my Caltrop*
trycoldman23 you monster
trycoldman23 now that’s just inhumane! I’d rather have the spike in my foot
trycoldman23 That is hilarious.
Landmines are more humane
Pretty sure there's something in the geneva convention outlawing this monstrous tactic.
I saw you on an episode of a recent prepper show and thought your set up and knowledge was the absolute best of all the shows to date. Please keep your videos coming! Although I underwent small infantry unit style training in the military, I still learn a ton from your expertise and training. THANK YOU!!!
The nail strips around here are called "Bear Boards". Perfectly legal to protect against bears that might try to get into your property.
The hollow type will deflate a tire in less then a minute depending on the diameter of the tube. Very effective against wheeled vehicles.
The ninja also used these. They were called tetsu-bishi. Very effective against straw sandals. we've wielded combine blades perpendicular to each other. with the serrated edge up, it would easily shred tires. Thanks for the video! Stay safe.
I looked it up and of course in Illinois they are 100% illegal to have in any way. F'n Illinois.
We are a big union state and they have been used in many many union disputes.
JayXX, the reason its illegal in Illinois is to prevent the criminals or police from getting injured when they home invade your house. I lived in the Chicago area of 8 years when i was based at O'Hare A/P all i can say is ...... NEVER AGAIN will i live in Illinois. if the Politicians/Criminals don't screw you over first the unions will. I would rather see what happened to Detroit happen to Chicago instead.
Sam Brandt That and Chicago and its crooked politicians try to make everything illegal and impose fines for everything. Largely Chicago politicians have been running Illinois most of the time and burying it. I'm looking to move but my current work pays me well for my toys and preps. I thought about moving to Indiana but was thinking of Wyoming or Montana. I'd love to move to one of several southern states but I can't handle the heat.
Hey 73Corbin, how do you like your suppressors? I have considered getting one but don't like that the ATF have to give you their blessing. To many hands reaching in my pocket.
its not the heat, its the heat with humidity. I don't like it either. I was based for a while in So Cal and got spoiled in the dry air. I could handle 120 degree heat on the flight line working around almost all black aircraft. now if it goes over 80 and there is any humidity i stay inside as much as i can. So I join you in your dislike for the south. Other than that it has some really nice places to live. I have lived in several southern states.
Very good idea. Never heard of these, always learning something new. Hope to God we never get to this point. Thank you for doing what you do. You are by far the best channel I have!
I had a local criminal jump my locked 6' wood gate. Police did nothing and HOA said I was not allowed to build an 8' gate/fence.
So I rebuilt the 6' gate and to make it stronger, there was a top strip of wood with 40 screws through it to keep all the pickets secure.
I saw blood and some skin on the gate 2 days later, and just 2 days after that, I saw the local criminal walking down the street with bandaged hands.
This didn't stop him and his family of brothers, cousins and friends as they have been breaking into homes and cars for years.
Police do nothing because their lives matter I guess.
But this is Texas... so a motion alarm and my shotgun aren't considered a trap... Stand your ground and the Castle law are a blessing.
Copper brake/fuel line about an inch and half long with exterior scruffed up by a wire brush, slips over nails to make stop stick quills :D worked pretty good in former Yugoslavia
preferred device of tire shops everywhere
Where I live in England there are alot of Victorian street houses. Alot of the brick walled gardens have cemented broken glass on the top from the 50s. It's illegal to do now but there are alot still up. Lots of green bottles and milk bottles were used.
Roofing tar and roofing nails on any flat surface. The tar will let the nails stay on as you move the board and still let them break away without dragging the board with the foot leaving it in place to catch more. The nails have a nice large head for extra surface area for the tar to hold them on and the tar will help the board last longer when deployed.
When storing remember to have paired boards so you can store them spikes in and include a way to strap them together to reduce accident chances. Caltrops should be in a hard sided box to prevent them from ripping/puncturing a cloth or cardboard box. Nothing like getting a foot full of spikes because they spilled in the spot you store them in.
Fishing hooks and line also make a good area control method as you can string them up in weaker spots and it really slows how fast any group wants to move in any light. Small hard to see and still gives you clear fire lanes.
I grew up in Guatemala, and most houses have some sort of perimeter wall. A lot of times people will affix broken glass bottles (beer, pepsi, etc) to the top of the block walls with concrete. Just lay a layer of concrete down and stick the broken bottles in, so that people can't climb over your walls. They also put v-shaped nails along the top of walls too. Razor wire and barbed wire too, but the broken bottles is cheap and can't be cut like wire. A lot of times they will stick the broken bottles on window sills.
David, I had to drive through a picket line for 6 months a long time ago. They used those to throw under our cars when we drove into or out of work.Our company bought us new tires. They were made out of nails and worked well.
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Quick tip to preppers,
1. windows: use planks to board up every part other than 1 plank size spot to look through window
2, outdoor cover: make vietnam style rat hole with wood trapdoor or dirt piles.
hope this helped all the preppers out there
Hard to get out through a window if your house is on fire, Einstein
Already knew about Caltrops, but the deployment ideas were very smart. Some I had not thought of. Thanks.
Three days after the cities run out of food . . . you're what's for dinner.
Very nice... I have a few deflating strips however I tell people to use hardened metal tubing to make what you are showing. It is a 50% faster deflation rate and would also reduce roll overs... If that was your intention... Also tell your viewers that if the SHTF just use a box of 1 1/4'' roofing nails...Not Aluminium nails!! Must be Galvanized nails...They also work... All of this statement was just an opinion to assist anyone who needed this type information... Peace! Great Post
Now, where did I leave those- GAHH! FOUND THEM
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These are perfectly legal to use in Grizzly territory as a bear deterrent. Place them around your storage buildings to keep the bears from getting in to your supplies. Just make sure they're visible.
So high visibility pink for normal anti bear and the ones that are just a black/brown primer for emergency?
Andrew H Yeah pretty much. Plus, you'll humiliate the bear as well as poke their feet with the hot pink.
was thinking more of have it so visible no one can say you didnt mark them.
Or the laugh value if someone comes sneaking in at night and misses them then tries to sue. Nothing like a picture of something bright pink and the person saying they couldnt see it.
AZ, I agree about using nail strips to protect your food and home in Bear territory. I will go as far as to say its very necessary. However they can be avoided because they are in front of your door. laying something like this all over the woods is not a good idea. you DON'T want to "NAIL" yourself or a family member.
@@sambrandt3688 You ALSO really DON'T want to have a grizzly bear(or ANY bear, for that matter) walking around in your area with a nail stuck in its foot, especially if it gets infected!
All bears are potentially dangerous to begin with, and a crippled and in pain bear even more so!
As a farmer, I had a constant stream of trespassing hunters driving onto my land. Putting signs up seemed to make it worse not better. Put up a camera, but it kept getting triggered by wind blowing the trees. Finally I welded up some bits of scrap metal in various designs and tossed them in leaf litter on the track. I got the same neigbour twice haha😂😂.He demanded new tyres. I invited him to explain to the local police how he was on my property without permission when he encountered some junk metal i had left lying around. Obviously he declined the invitation, and bought his own tyres. No more trouble since. 😊
when I was in Somalia people there would take cement and put it on top of their walls surrounding their huts or house. then they would take broken shards of glass and place it in the wet cement, when it dried it was a poor man's concertina wire on top of the wall.
I've seen that in Italy too.
in mexico too
Robert Young South Korea and Turkey as well
We have that on older properties in the UK.
Robert Young its very popular in rough areas of city's in England .
I just leave scrap metal and demolition debris around my shop. Effective, impresses the neighbors and keeps those pesky real estate taxes low from depressed value.
when they're loose... I've always known them as Jumping Jacks ... Awesome idea and video ... I hadn't thought about adding these ... the only drawback is they are in discriminant ,.. once they're out they're out and May hurt you .. ..
These become much more effect placed in an area where you have channeled your attacker, using say downed tree tops, drunkards path fencing, paths created through thick groves of trees or briar bushes. Don't forget creek beds passing near your retreat, fence lines or ridges overlooking your compound. Keep in mind that smaller diameter nails are more effective at puncturing tough shoe soles and screws are much sharper and very tough to pull out.
Another idea is post holes with sharpened rebar spikes, either pointing straight up from the bottom (drill a hole through a 2x6 board and place spike though hole) or drive sharp end first, diagonally from the top edge of the hole (about 12" out) into the wall of the hole. Three triangulated spikes (3/8" dia.) can make it nearly impossible to pull a leg out without help. Such devices may not create a devastating injury but certainly crumble the morale of intruders.
Like you mentioned though these are preps best delayed until an event is underway. Nevertheless you should have a post hole drill and spikes prepared ahead of SHTF, so that you can quickly make a vulnerable area impassable.
Another thought concerning a perimeter fence is the placing of cheap "gaucho" barbed wire (the sharpest I've found) in loops just inside your perimeter fence. Anyone jumping the fence will be snarled and slowed making a much better target, if they dare jump at all. This fence should be affixed to the ground along sharpened spikes.
I love your channel Bugout Bubba! As always, you really think things through!
Genuine gorilla tactics...😀💀
a half sheet of plywood full of nails painted to match to color of your carpet or floor, placed just beyond the opening distance of a door, could give an entry team something to think about.
Most swat boots have a steel plate in them to prevent punctures. It will still slow them down as they have something stuck in the materials but it cant make it to the foot inside without a lucky strike to the side and in.
even a lot of the old VN boots have solid bottoms for the same basic reason. So you don't get skewered. Learned a lot as a kid at gunshows... But nobody anymore really learns any of this stuff. Another fading art.
Andrew H, Just add a trip wire and steel inserts in a boot won't mean as much.
ok?
Andrew H if you put something in front of the trap like a trip wire or snare to make them fall steel plated boots are going to do nothing
Caltrops, otherwise known as road spikes, are superb, and good to keep a fistful in your vehicle as well, to deter "pursuit". :)
When the day comes that you use these, there will be no more law!!!
And that day is approaching quickly, no matter who's elected!!!
God Bless :-) And keep your powder dry!!!
There are to many that refuse to believe this.
+Armedpatriot 86 too true!
That's because we live in a country of pussies. Too many people so blinded by sports or celebrity bullshit that they don't know what reality is...
They don't see what's under their noses because they believe everything the news puts out...
"If it's on the internet it must be true, right?" Same thing as the news, they believe what they want to believe and enjoy the freedom to stay ignorant about such matters.
+AirborneVet 2008 You hit the nail on the head.
You are a fool if you think Trump will cause the same damage as Hillary. Stop listening to the mainstream media and watch a rally or two. He is saying exactly what we rant about for years. If you do not vote, you are part of the problem. Don't bother fighting for SHTF if you won't fight today.
These are called “jackrocks” in the West Virginia coal fields. Striking miners would litter the roads leading into the mines with them to keep strike breakers from mining. They would also light road flares and throw them into loaded coal train cars which would usually end with the train being a puddle of molten metal. Coal burns HOT.
i remember coming across this video a couple years ago and thought wow, now I’m at a point where I can actually weld up some stuff.. I have to say.. my mental gears won’t stop turning 😊
Thanks SP1 for the "Sharp Tip" Keep'em Rolling!
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My neighbor where I grew up made a bunch of these in the 80's. Easy and effective.
I got these on my property for the dirt bikers and atvs that are terrorizing my family even though we have no trespassing signs everywhere! Thanks for the tip!
i saw the board with nails used in a charles bronson movie. he placed one inside under a window and when a guy jumped in, well you know the rest.
i like to make an area that someone could use as cover not to give them a place to hide but it being the only area to hide effectively it will put them exactly where you know they will be and make it easier to control there movement and what they can do and also make sure there is a way for you to tell if someone is there without them knowing you know
Samurai and ninja's used them to fumble anyony persuing them.
used in the netherlands a couple years back; spread out in front of nearby policestations
noadays people don't expect to see these used so potentially very effective!
Good video, times are getting more serious, this calls for more serious preps.
RCBS and Lee reloading presses in the background,... nice!
I've seen some made with a garden hose and nails. The hose was cut to about 4 inches long, with 3 nails in various directions, ensuring that there was always one spike facing upwards.
In Korea the ROK troops had strips with chain welded to them. The base was plate steel and the spikes were sharpened sections of rebar 6"-10" in length. They were usually painted yellow and seen along the sides of bridges. When needed a couple ROK troops left their positions, grabbed the chains, and pulled them from the sides across the roadway. While they did that a couple others would roll I-beam hedgehogs in place behind them. The strips would slow wheeled vehicles and the hedgehogs tracked.
Nice ideals , thanks. I like the creativity of the improvised stop stick.
Excellent and very true... Should have a bunch of theses stocked. I use old retired fire house and nails. Why haven't I ran across your channel before, weird, subbed great stuff..
One of my favorite toys from my childhood, the neighbors did not like me lol.
If you wanted to, you could use a piece of mesh over the top of them when spray painting to give them a speckled pattern to break up there outline more than a single color. It may be too much effort, but it's a thought.
Rotary Saw
GOOD idea, actually.
Wouldn't storing them in some nasty stuff like urine or feces also spread disease against the intruders?
unless you step on them.
LOL. Im glad i didnt mention anything about scatter shot...
A Headsup Yes, that was done in Vietnam. Very nasty thing to do to another human being tho. There were also foot traps that were on hinges, such that the foot would fall in a few inches, but levers swung up to puncture the ankle: medial & distal. Not a life threatening wound, but it would soon become infected. Puncture wounds are the worst.
for how long tho lol
Make sure to wear strong and durable footwear!
Seen these before interesting idea used in small unit tactics. Perhaps to funnel op forces into. A possible tedious (fabrication) and a bit impractical counter measure would be to fit insoles made out of correction soft armor that is shank and ice pick resistant. Not sure exactly how effective but much better than a rubber sole I'd guess. May need larger and or wider boot to hold something like that. A mountaineering boot with built in rocker prob the most ideal for something to make caltrop resistant. Since they are so incredibly stiff to begin with. Or custom multi hinged ar500 plates cut to foot shape and maybe 1/8" to minimize shoe size alterations. As is said impractical but for those who are bored. 😀
This is good for when you have a home to defend when SHTF and there’s no civilization.
However, the problem most people are waking up to as of this post is not having a home any more due to not being able to pay the mortgage. It ain’t nameless faceless raiders that come to kick you out of your home when that happens, it’s the police.
A SHTF situation that I think we need to prep for is getting kicked out of our homes before society collapses, because that’s what is happening these days.
People need to know how to camp, how to bushcraft, how to forage, etc. If you lose your job, you can’t get a new one, and it’s looking like you’re gonna get evicted from your own home, you need a backup plan. If that doesn’t involve moving in with someone else, then you need to know how to survive in your local wild lands.
I’m telling you, long before society collapses, the banks will kick as many people out of their houses as they can what lost their jobs to no fault of their own.
Damn. Welcome to 2020.
Yup !..on the button there.
Heck you can use nails and a skinny PVC pipe to make an effective blow dart gun as well. My brother did it and it worked well.
the nail plate with a hinge in the middle, over a hole is very effective. even better is a nail made into a barb
Where I grew up there were these mud pits. Kids would always go ride their dirt bikes back there. This older gentlemen hated the noise. So he made a bunch of these, hoping to pop their tires, and hid them in the mud (along with nails and rebar). What he didn’t account for was a boy falling off the back of his older brother’s four wheeler and sustaining massive injury to his popliteal and brachial arteries. He’d lost over two liters of blood in mere minutes. He’d have died no matter what before any ambulance could get there or anyone could get to them then drive the 16 minutes it took the get to the hospital. His brother’s friend had to ride a mile just to get back to their house to tell an adult. His brother put a belt around his upper arm under his shoulder and was applying pressure to the area but they didn’t really have the means or knowledge to attend to his popliteal artery, let alone properly treat the brachial artery trauma. Not to mention he sustained a shit ton of other damage. This dumbass even had rebar sticking up which almost killed another person a few weeks before, but they didn’t realize it had been intentionally been put there. He’d fallen off his bike and damn dear landed right on it. Scratched his side all to hell but he got lucky.
These things are no joke. Stepping or falling in them is no joke. So I’m glad you advise people not to go make them willynily and include the fact that they’re illegal in many places. If one of these were to get misplaced out in a field or yard or around children in the home..it could be bad. I remember the newspaper headlining it like “Man Plays A Deadly Game Of Jacks And Pays With His Freedom & Eastern Shore 8 Year Old’s Life”. These things have always scared me. Hell, even putting upright nails in the dirt can be bad for someone who steps or falls on them. But these things...yikes.
My understanding is that in vietnam they used to coat the sharpened bamboo with human excrement to add infection. Perhaps there are other coatings that would add to the effectiveness.
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Funny how well this video has aged. A+ info
Why paint them? Leave then rusty.
Raymond Brower survive with style ?
If he doesn't paint them, they won't last for very long outside, they will rust and break easily before they can harm anything or anyone.
camouflage.
@H Higgins You underestimate how rapidly can rust devour metal.
Paint for camouflage purposes.
Awesome info man...don't know if i would've thought about hollow tubing to flatten tires...very cool...great job
Don't know if you've seen them or not but they make some huge fence post staples now, would be great use for those and not to pricey, with just a quick weld together.
Caltrops should be made with steel tubing. Allows air to leak faster from tires and “fluids too”.
100% lawful to buy/make/sell/trade/operate in EVERY state. shall not be infringed, brothers. in this country we have laws against certain actions, not against inanimate objects.
btw what do y'all think "SHTF" or "WROL" looks like? do you think it's not already here? wake up folks
Wow...very interesting, useful information. Something the whole family can work on together!
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Lol the thought of entire family sitting down together to make these things seem twisted. Jesus I hope it don’t come to that. Good to know, tho.
Where i live we struggle with burglaries at a daily rate. Made caltrops tied too thick fishing line. Laid it a few feet from the wall. After a few weeks of putting it out the thieves gave up. Still throw them out every night and putting it away when we are at home.
These will definitely come in handy the way shit is turning out lol
I had some odd pieces of cattle panels laying around. With bolt cutters and a vise, I made several dozen. I keep some in my truck too. Just in case! I also have 1000 feet of concertina wire!
Omgosh he's talking about movies and video games..I remember the A cookbook
we use nail boards around our bee hives from the bears very affective
In my country I can use them as home security. Thanks for this.
Which country?
My state is where I’m standing and my land....legal. “Shall not be infringed”
Those things work best in high grass or covered by leaves. An alternative would be to use bamboo half burried in the ground or glass shards sticking out. Together with tripping wires they can be even more deadly (even without someone injuring his foot might fall into more spikes).
On the other hand putting nail boards out keeping them in plain sight is a different story. They can be still very effective at keeping people from breaking through your glass doors etc.
Other options you can do are the more or less easy vietnam/ indochina options.
Also interesting might be the option of a piece of wood, pipe, a nail and a shotgun, pistol or rifle shell.
Different kinds of barbed wired can be used in a lot of different ways (i have at least half a dozen, maybe even a full out of my head)
What might be an other idea is plant stuff so you can chanell aproches.
On a larger scale (and what might be a option for you ) is to make a imprivised bridge on a choke point where you made a big hole in the street, a bridge "got lost" or whatever. This way you can cut whole regions off, especiall in the us, from land vehicles and you know how it is. I won`t go into details but there are a lot of options on how this can be done and turn out.
I don`t know if i posted this under one of your videos a while ago but this is also a nice, energy preserving option.:
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It is in german but i think you can figure it out. If you need a translation let me know.
There are many different options which work on the same principles.
All what knowledge and stuff does is giving you options.
So if I set them in my house and someone enters my home to rob me, I can get sued if they step on one? You must have said that as a disclaimer to protect yourself. If I have an intruder entering my home they are as good as dead.
A man broke into a house when the family was away for a week. He locked himself in the garage, being not terribly bright. He subsisted on dog food and warm soda until they came home and found him.
When the criminal got a lawyer he sued and won. Some sort of cruelty thing.
I can't believe that the jury decided in his favor.
@@blindsquirrel7802 I read this twenty years ago. He couldn't get out of the garage? That always puzzled me!
Long time ago I nailed large nails up in a board and put it in front of my mail box to stop certain ones driving by knocking our mail box off..., it worked but not intended for the person it worked on
My neighbor used jack rocks when his union went on strike. He said they are very effective on pickup truck tires. I am surprised no one used these in Ontario.
I have few old scrap wood with nails, been under window... never remember take to bin...
Caltrops are ARMS which can never be "illegal" as they are very clearly covered in the 2nd Amendment.
So are home made bombs right?
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Correct...any arms are legal under the Constitution
@@gregorythomas333 hey I just got arrested for my home made bombs and I mentioned you said it was okay. ATF is pretty pissed. Sorry
easy tip: just use garden hose with nails pushed through every nail rotated 1/3 from the last. each nail about 10cm apart.
its real fast to make and real fast to deploy. works well tossed from a car window.
They might be illegal now, but the days when the word illegal will mean nothing are fast approaching
get some nets and reinforce them with wire or use a wire mesh and then weld some barbed caltrops to it to stop vehicles. The Barbs keep the caltrops in place and then the net wraps around the axel stopping the vehicle in about a dozen yards provided it doesn't break.
SP1 thank you for the efforts, PLEASE keep up the good works.
If you make small ones using thin steel tubing with a slash cut on the end the tubing can be filled with excrement of whatever flavour is handy, it will immobilise those on foot if they step on them, and also give them serious infections which will take them out of the fight in a couple of days completely.
Thank you for the information. I'll be sure to put it to use. To he'll with the the law. There is no law
There are some high security neighborhoods on the edge of Portland where those are just built into the roadway. If you go the wrong way on the one way driveway (like bypassing the gates), they shred your tires.
Peoria area here
was just in Springfield yesterday for the LiberTeaFest....
always some going on in Peoria...crappy place anyways..
Those were used in 1980 or so at the steel mill in my area - during a strike. Lots of outside venders ( non-union) got flat tires.
Remember, its only illegal if you get CAUGHT.
good idea tying them together speeds up deployment and retreval i like it
To all you people who hit a thumbs down this video you'll be wishing you had this when they come for you
Broken glass inbeded in cement at the top of block walls works good for security as well as tossing some out out on the ground/ floor makes for fairly good early warning system
I have a thick bush in front of my front-room window. The clearance between that bush and the front window is maybe 1 foot. Nobody accidentally walks behind that bush, it's too much out-of-the-way. The only reason to be there would be to look in, or break in that window. Thanks for the ideas.
The Union did use caltrops during the civil war. All companies from both the first and second regiment of United States Sharpshooters (Berdan Sharpshooters)carried pouches of them. The Berdans used them to slow down the Confederate cavalry which pursued them if the Union was routed from the field, effectively turning them into dismounted cavalry making them an easier target.
good idea, simple ,cheap and semi effective. Thorn bushes outside your windows which I( use are a similar sort of thing. Except thorn bushes don't get ya sued.
These are great for use on tops of walls that surround a property. Place a thin layer of concrete on top of a wall and line with these.
I've got these little triangles we use at work as gussets cutting disk down the middle and they work well also. Still need to.out a tack weld tho
great vid man... Caltrops are VERY effective
The angle iron vehicle tire stop... use hollow pipe so the rubber is removed from the tire... instant flat... even on run flats