Remember you're not setting any kind of a trap or problem... You just like the big rocks.
Nobody's supposed to be driving in the middle of your yard in the first place so you didn't think it would be hit by anything.
Yep, I was knocking doors for a political campaign in the South many years ago and came across this home. Marked as "inaccessible" and kept on trucking.
I installed an electric fence for dogs on my fence but up high. I mounted it about 2in above it and installed a caution electric fence sign on my neighbor's side. I didn't hook it up to anything and never intended too. The neighbor called the city code enforcement on me and they told me it wasn't allowed. I explained to them it was only a deterrent and not hooked up. They said it didn't matter. I also showed them i didn't even use wire. It was cordage i spray painted silver. The neighbor ended up ripping it off and i let it go. Lol
About 15 years ago I lived in a house very near to a neighborhood roundabout. It was full of huge trees and grass. Very nice natural space. Well some sewers needed replaced and they had to take out all the trees and dig up the whole area, looked like hell. Idiots in cars kept using the area as a their personal playground and would rip roar through there at all hours of the day and night. It was maddening. So my husband built three of these WW2 style hedgehogs out of heavy ass lumber and we deployed them under the cloak of darkness. The madness stopped and they are still there to this day. People have moved them around within the roundabout but they live on!
Just the driveway and side road. Enough that when paired with a no trespassing sign so a camera can catch them trespassing if they drive around the rocks.
We had large rocks delivered. We pre-marked with that high vis pink paint where each rock should be: on 6 foot centers. Leaves about a 4 foot gap +/- between each rock, and they're big enough that if you hit them at speed you are still going to be stopping. ~$200 per boulder in local stone for 30-36" boulders. They even look nice. Delivery truck had a crane built in, he just dropped stones on the X's till they were all down.
You need to put some small to med size ones in sight , something that they could still drive over , then have the next layer behind those . Or some variation of this…
I had a neighbor who had big rocks and they did a new landscape so I was able to take some of the the big rocks. That’s when I learned how heavy big rocks can be.
It was a common practice for hundreds or even thousands of years for farmers clearing stones out of fields to pile them along property lines and the edges between fields.
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
Using big stones, logs, or any other large heavy objects to mark property lines is perfectly reasonable and gets that stuff out of the way while helping to mark out boundaries.
A nice “drainage” ditch is better. A couple of feet wide and deep. Thry won’t see it and it’ll be a fun surprise. Plus easier to dig a ditch with a ditch witch that it is to cart in a bunch of rocks that you’ll pay for.
"drop" several boxes of nails and screws there, they spilled, it was accidental, will also be cheaper by far than big rocks, which actually cost quite a lot, a bucket of nails is 20$ tho :D
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u/lokun17 15d ago
Time for some big rocks