Posted by JDseller on January 05, 2012 at 22:17:51 from (208.126.196.144):
It seems like someone is writing on here each week that they have had some things stolen. One guy had several sheds broken into and a bunch of old Ford engines taken. Another had a silage chopper taken. Just today a guy was posting about a hitch for a Oliver 99 that was stolen.
I don't want to seem harsh but how the heck are they stealing this much stuff without anyone see it done???? I have had my shop broken into but it was at night and I found it out the very next morning. Since then I have installed better locks and made the windows and doors harder to get into. I have not left things setting out close to roads or on farms not lived on for years. It seems that many are thieves but it also seems that many are making it easy for the thieves too. That may not came across like I am thinking but what I am trying to get at is that you can't leave things out in the open or they will get taken. I don't even leave wagons out in the fields over night any more. It would be real easy to just pull in and take one. You have to take some precautions.
One thing I did learn was to pad lock the door lock rods on overhead doors. They can just break a window and reach in and raise the door to get in. I put a pad lock on the out side of the door track so the locking rod/bar can't be pulled back through the track.
So I would like to hear what you have done to make it harder to have things taken. Plus things that you have seen or heard of taken that just make you scratch your head.
Example: A friend had a cheap plastic tool box setting in the bed of his pickup. While he was in town some one dumped out the tools and stole the plastic tool box. The box was worth maybe ten bucks but the tools where all name brand and would have been worth a few hundred buck at the least. So why take the box and leave the tools???? The tools where not marked either.
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