This is the design Trump tweeted. I think it will have a cross piece near the top, to pull it all together.
Posted on 12/21/2018 4:31:09 PM PST by chiller
Have you seen the design for the Bollard Fence Design (steel slat picket-fence) that DJT has been talking up this week ? What do you think of it ? How penetrable ?
The design features a see through capability, which has plusses and minuses. Steel like spikes crown each picket. Costs would be considerably less. Construction time minimized. Trump calls it beautiful. It certainly is more appealing than a concrete wall.
Your thoughts please
Disagree..........Drones are going to give a visual...and can track them...until someone shows up.
The Wall will not work. Snipers and landmines will.
It’s been what they wanted all along and was covered well.
Your numbers are off. First, we’ve seen plenty of them able to shimmy up bollards. But even without that they can get the first 6 feet or so simply standing on an SUV or a truck cab. Add their own height and you’re tossing from over 12 feet up.
Then they just need to toss the end of a rope with a bit of a weight on it up the remaining 18 feet at a slight angle to get it over the top. Then the weight on the other side of the fence can pull the rope down as far as it is needed (about 18 feet) until you can pull it in to tie.
Modern nylon climbing ropes are very light and cheap.
You have to allow for the lean in the ladder and have another one to climb down the other side.
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stand-alone steel slats plus DRONES. love that.
TWEET: RealDonaldTrump:
A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful!
21 Dec 2018
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076239448461987841
This is the design Trump tweeted. I think it will have a cross piece near the top, to pull it all together.
The problem is getting over the sharp spikes without slipping. Getting hooked up on top of a 30 foot fence spike would be a heck of a way to go.
The drones will track where they are going. They won’t be able to out run them.
Any kind of grinding on the fence would trigger the sensors. That would bring in the drones to track the fence disturbance. Then, manpower would converge on the offenders. Putting drugs through the slats has one problem: The receivers of the drugs have one big fence to protect them when they take off without paying.
Send a signal through it so you know if someone damages it anywhere.
A 30 foot fence would be a impossible task to ladder your wife and kids over. Once on top, you have to rope them down the other side. Try balancing yourself on top of the fence while dropping your 80 lb ten-year-old down the other side on a rope. Would the wife be able to rope herself down? They would have one chance to do it right.
Patrol with drones and cameras
Obama pulled down the cameras that Bush had put up, claiming that they were ineffective because they couldn’t distinguish between animals and man. Seems to me that software could do that now, but even if not, a person looking at the camera feed when an alert is issued could certainly do that.
That’s right.....the border patrol said they need to be able to see thru it....
No they can’t see where we are on the other side......don’t underestimate how we ‘see’ them.
The round bumper on the top allows a feeder line to be shot over the top and pulled in as it drops down the side. Then, all you have to do is pull a rope up over the top while the other end is tied to a slat.
Well to be fair...in NKorea you’re shot if you try to cross.....and Illegals aren’t interested in crossing into Zuckerbergs property.
Better is to see Israels border walls and styles of fencing.......
Which means, if the FM makes the wall just a minor part of an electronic system, why aren't Pelosi and Schumer right to say "no wall, just high tech"? High tech that can fatten a lot of wallets in democrat California for decades to come?
I remember McNamara's sensor barrier that alerted loitering aircraft to attack trucks on the Ho Chi Min trail. We blew up tons of decoys and no where near enough trucks and coolies to stop the flow or even keep the NVA in the South from stockpiling.
Power failures and cyber attacks don't impress or alter the capabilities of concrete. Whatever you say, I still say at least a dozen feet of concrete at the base is superior.
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