/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>I don't want:
>any practical solution

A gate you like the looks of, maybe wrought iron instead of a cattle gate, is really the way to go, but yould try
>Nasty speed bumps, a dip, or those removable poles they use in parks and the like
>Parallel parking your truck at the entrance
>Buckets of imitation crab meat
You basically need something to physically impede ingress because a sign wouldn't do anything even if you wanted one.

>>2466729
You could just smile and wave, it's not hurting you in any way except mentally. If you don't really want to do anything it's kind of your only option anyway.

>>2466733
I like these ideas, thanks anon.

>>2466734
>t. guy who can't 3 point turn and drives right up to people's houses

>>2466729
some some the biggest, buffest, black dudes hang around your house

>>2466729
Maybe some traffic cones but leave them spaced so delivery drivers can get through... most people will get the message.

maybe people wouldn't be using it if it didn't look like such an easy slut.

>>2466729
>>2466729
Plant hedges. If they can’t see past them they won’t risk you being home. People are naturally afraid of unknown or confined spaces, as most mammals are.

Will also increase the value of your home and provide privacy.

>>2466729
you need a sign that reads "Turn around here if ur gay"

>>2466729
Caltrops

>>2466823
...and make it easier for the lockpicking thief from the other thread to take his time, get in easy, and rob you blind.

>>2466846
Yep like rob them normal style then bring a U-Haul the next day and do a proper fucking, get the washer dryer, kitchen table, sofa, bedroom set, all the tools, etc. Nothing like a hedge to help hide you.

>>2466729
Buy some big retroreflective signs.
>PRIVATE DRIVEWAY
>NO U TURN
>PHOTO ENFORCED
And put a camera (or a fake camera) on a pole right next to the driveway.

https://www.roadtrafficsigns.com/fos/MPS2/private-driveway-no-u-turn-sign/sku-k2-1321
https://www.roadtrafficsigns.com/traffic-photo-enforced-mutcd-sign/sku-x-r10-19ap

>>2466852
Whoops, wrong image.

Why not just take a little happiness in knowing that you're helping people out? Are the cars causing any damage?

>>2466856
Fuck you.

>>2466729
Why do you care?

>>2466895
Well that's not very nice, what would your community think of that attitude?

>>2466729
I’d turn around in your crusty driveway regardless. You shoot your clippings onto the driveway you dirty pig.

sink a big pole either side of your driveway opening. Alternatively fence along your property line.
people reallyu are that dumb that they will no longer see it as a large spot to turn around at if theres a pole kinda not in the way.

>>2466729
Blinds on your front windows and something for you to do other than stare at your driveway like a psychopath

>>2466729

>>2466729
Looks like Ohio, but none of those things are illegal here.

>>2466729
Buy two automated gates and two sensors.
Have both gates close whenever someone drives through one
Make sure to fence in the entire area

>>2466729
For starters make the driveway look like it's not an abandoned parking lot entrance

Disgusting

>>2466729

> doesn't want sign or gate

Uh ok. Cast a magic spell then.

The fuck is wrong with u

Dig a 3ft wide, 2 ft deep ditch across both ends of the driveway. Put a ramp on each side so you can Bo Duke it across. Randos wont know to hit the gas and end up stuck. Fence the rest of the front.

>>2466729
yw

>>2466732
lole

Camp out next to your driveway and when they arrive block the exit and talk to them about how much you dislike their choice.

>>2467244

There is a cemetery by my house that did this. People were shortcutting through the cemetery to avoid waiting for two lights, so they would wait until morning when people would start cutting through, and close both gates when someone cut through. Then the people would have to go all the way to the groundskeepers barn to ask them to let them out and get yelled at kek

Post these signs at all driveway entrances

>>2466729
>2 lane
>major highway
Get fucked boomer

>>2466729
Where do you live I want to turn around in your driveway

>>2466729
>driveway off a major highway
truly the land of the free

fake rubber spike strips.

>>2466856
Most roadway pavement sections are quite a bit thicker than driveway pavements, because a driveway is only intended to have the owner's and his guests' vehicles on it. Add to that turning a vehicle around puts more stress (particularly where the tires turn) on the pavement than just driving through, and depending on how much traffic goes in and out of his driveway, it can indeed cause him to have to replace it earlier than otherwise would have been necessary.
If OP wants a more passive approach, he may want to consider taking the end of the drive and putting grasspavers (https://www.invisiblestructures.com/products/grasspave-2/ or similar) instead of asphalt. It can still be driven on, but it doesn't look like a route that can be driven on.

>>2466729
A drawbridge?

>>2466729
Shoot them with a gun.

>>2467273
>>2466913
moved in 2 months ago. Driveway is not a priority right now but it will be fixed
>>2467241
kek
>>2467465
It's around the corner, not literally out front, retard.
>>2467238
>sitting on the porch watching your kids play is psycho behaviour
rope
>>2466732
exactly, it has to be creative. I want the front to look nice and being the only house on a rural road with a gate looks weird

These right beside the asphalt, make sure to dig them at least 2 inches in the soil to trash any bumper.
>I really hope you just posted an example picture online

>>2467551
Thank you, I actually like a lot of the ideas in this thread. I know I probably come across as neurotic but I've got kids and a business that I run from home that I need to protect. Having random people drive up to the house uninvited around here isn't normal and unappreciated.

>>2467553
Do they make a turn at the road or the house?
If they turn at the road, placing bollards (or rocks/boulders) of similar size would greatly encroach on the turning space and definitively keep them off the grass. But they would look natural and not impede driving up the drive way. Which might lead to them turning at the house, so might need picrel, it folds down and isn't as visible as a whole gate

>>2467553
>>2467557

>>2467557
Most people are smart enough to 3-point turn ass-first into the driveway but a couple of people drove literally up to the side of the house in order to spin around without having to reverse. I was dumbfounded and angry when I saw that

>>2467558
Cool, thanks anon

>>2466729
Make the road end of your driveway a little wider so people can swing around easily.
Alternatively figure out why they turn around, what they missed, where they are trying to go, there must be a sign missing for some popular tourist spot for so many people to need to turn? Find out where they miss the turn and put up a sign.
If you put anything in your drive I'm going to drive over there and turn around on your lawn.

>>2467612
>Make the road end of your driveway a little wider so people can swing around easily.
>Alternatively figure out why they turn around, what they missed, where they are trying to go, there must be a sign missing for some popular tourist spot for so many people to need to turn? Find out where they miss the turn and put up a sign.

its not up to a homeowner to make up for missing signs on roads. thats up to the city. fuck those "tourists" they can get fucked. you should know better than to use someones private property to make a U turn or to turn around to go back in the other direction.

>>2467971
private property doesn't trump ease of access.
if you don't like people doing a u-turn on your property, move somewhere else.

>>2468043

city should fix the roads then, it shouldnt be up to a homeowner to allow cars to use their private property as a place to make U turns.

>>2468067
>city should fix the roads then,

Nothing wrong with the roads or the signs or anything. Sometimes people have to turn around. And if your or OP's driveway cannot survive a vehicle pulling in briefly then you should fix your driveway. I know I've turned around in lots of driveways, and except for the time I knocked a planter over I've never damaged anything. So don't leave gay-assed planters 3 inches from your driveway.

This is an autist thread.

If you don't like people turning around in your driveway, and they keep doing it because of reasons.... Then restrict their access by putting up a gate or otherwise blocking their access with cones, etc.

>>2466729
Some kind of scarecrow solution, maybe a bunch of hooded sweatshirt wearing fellows congregating near the entrance of your driveway.

Confederate and Gadsden flags flying on a pole easy to see before turning into the driveway.

>>2466826
Then he'll have heaps of fucking tourists getting out & posing next to the sign for selfies

>>2468043
>private property doesn't trump ease of access.
Ease of access is a term usually used for handicap accessibility, not traffic turnarounds.
That aside, in this case it does. If people were traveling across his property for a legitimate purpose -- accessing something that his property blocks from the roadway, for instance -- then in that case there would be cause for an access easement to exist. This is not the case here, as this is because retards are too stupid to realize that they got off at the wrong exit. Or, more likely, they know exactly where they wanted to go but don't want to go the extra mile to the legal U-turn on a divided highway and are using this as a form of shortcut. Neither one is a legitimate cause for access across his property.
If people were staying in the right-of-way, then while it's a dick move to be using his drive apron for a turnaround, there's nothing that's particularly illegal about it. Coming up practically to his house, however? Unless the OP picture is the most fish-eyed camera in the world, that would clearly be trespassing at that point and he has every reason to demand it stop.
Speaking from a municipal standpoint, we don't want people turning around in other peoples' driveways, either. That's not what those driveways are there for, and fielding calls on that kind of shit makes us have to do work.

>>2466729
Gate is the only option. Hell even 2 posts and a chain can work.

>>2468105
Why would I have the same kind of flag the Buffalo shooter had in his room?

>>2466734
I bet your the kind of guy who stands at the border with a sign that says Rapefugees Welcome and your phone number.

>>2466729
>I has problem
>but don't want to do solution to said problem
Move somewhere that is not off a major highway then faggot.

>>2466729
Personally visit with each person in America and explain to them why you do not appreciate them using your driveway in such a way.

>>2466729
Scarecrows and rubber aliens

>>2468105
This along with >>2469081

>>2469014
To scare people away from the driveway. Did you forget the topic of the post?

>>2466729
lets all be honest for a second here, there's no tourists anywhere near whatever back country shit hole you live in

>>2467553
A private driveway sign should be sufficient. Anything other than that, semi official looking, will need to be set back quite a ways to avoid being fined. Such as a wrong way, no u turn, no entry, ect.

>>2468982
>Ease of access is a term usually used for handicap accessibility
it's also used more generally. if you own a lakefront property and the boat launch is in your back yard, the public has the right to go through your yard to use the boat launch.
if there is a pier, the public has the right to hang out and fish on it all day.

Put in an automatic bollard set that extends and blocks off the driveway unless it detects your authorization tag.

>>2469177

>>2469233
that's a big cop

>>2469276
for you

We can tell OP is a Christian, always willing to help people

>>2466729
Pave a more convenient loop for me to turn around. Going all the way up to your house is inconvenient

>>2469347
How jewish of you to presume anything.

>>2469379
How did this fool me so easily

>>2467492
I like this idea. But I feel people would see them as they're already turned in.

>>2469192
Source or shut up

t. Property owner with Lakefront in the back and private canal dock access in the front

>>2466729
one word, giant ramp. You'll get a duke's of hazzard jump every morning on your way to work. It'll be sure to put you in a good mood!

>>2466729
maybe dont get a fucking house thats perfect for turning around. fucking retard

>>2466729
an extremely deep ditch that is still narrow enough to roll over in your larger tires, but will intimidate strangers with little bitch tires

Park your car there so they can't get in.

Or just fucking shoot them

>>2469752
based Valkenheiser enjoyer

>>2466729
Could you throw a bunch of big ass bushes on either side of the driveway to obscure it from view? They'd still be able to but feels like depending how fast the speed limit is they might not see your driveway until it was too late to slow down and use it as a turnaround.

>>2469432
Yeehaw

>>2466734
>it's not hurting you in any way except mentally.
except he becomes liable for them once they enter his property. As well as hinders and makes passive the appropriate responses when someone unexcepted enters your property.

>>2469867
>he becomes liable for them once they enter his property
Sauce on this claim?

>>2469883
check out "Premises Liability"
This is the whole point of liability insurance, you can be sued even if someone falls on your sidewalk - in reference to even trespassers
"With respect to trespassers, if the owner knows that it is likely trespassers will enter the property, he or she may have a duty to give reasonable warning to prevent injury. This requirement applies only with respect to artificial conditions that the owner has created or maintains, and knows may be likely to cause serious injury or death."
Obviously this varies location to location... same reason you obligated to clear ice from your pathways in the winter, pretty sure even the USPS can sue you for fault due to a fall injury anywhere on your property

Light beam breaker at the driveway hooked up to a train horn. Capture the video and post it to youtube.

>>2469903
Okay, checked it out, if he posts "private property, no trespassing" then he's pretty much covered for liability, assuming he doesn't know they are on house property. If he does know they're on his property then he has to warn them of dangers, but that's it, then it's on them. As you said, this varies by location, but this is what I'm reading. And in Ohio where I live, the state supreme court had even ruled that the property owner isn't liable for an uncleared sidewalk, so sorry if you live somewhere that you can be sued for that.

>>2466729
https://youtu.be/HTFfEMYErxo

>>2469934
this but claymores

Nails and play dumb. It's your property, nails happen.

>>2470537
Trespass signs. Required. Painted line in driveway to demarcate your driveway from public road. Won't protect from drunk idiots/parties.

Speed bump, a MUST for this(hard to argue they didn't know they trespassed when even a truck rocks HARD going over it)Easy to install/make legally.

Fake spike strip is a no-go. Idiots will purposefully try to pop their tires to try to get free tires via insurance, even get out of their vehicles and pop them with their own screw drivers and argue the rubber spikes did it.

Get a NASTY(aka sharp/substantial looking/aka ruines a vehicle appearing) METAL FENCE. Install a gate that auto-opens when a transmitter/registered cell phone comes to it(limited entry for clients(they'll like this, makes them feel special, unless they hate tech/cellphones)

Horn/flashing lights not a good idea, insurance scammers LOVE THEM. Buuu, but h'your 'onor, the loud noise/flashing lights blinded/surprised me and I crashed my vehicle, their insurance should cover it, I'll end up on the streetz.

Also getting your local cops to patrol your area for speeders will instantly get you browny points with almost any police department. Especially if the speeders aren't local(outside money, locals happy about outsiders not messing around your neighborhood, etc) also MAY get local law enforcement to scare off/fine trespassers with no lawful entry reasons. Or get yourself ticketed all the time for speeding home.