I guess most people don't read the full post. The question was not about theft prevention, it was about theft recovery.
A driveway alarm will not prevent your equipment from being stolen if you are not home. Even if we were home, the barns are 200 yards away from the house and a thief could be gone with the first hint of movement from the house. Like I heard somebody say, Thieves work 24-7.
Chaining all the equipment every night is not a feasable option. Like I said, we are a working farm. Adding up the cost to feed the chain through every piece of equipment (In the state with highest minimum wage) every day that it is not stolen would quickly pass the cost of a loJack system.
Even a battery disconnect will not prevent your equipment from being stolen. Like I said, the equipment dealership had new, still crated from the factory, lawnmowers stolen. I am sure they did not drive those onto a trailer. It would be very easy to pull a non-running RTV onto a trailer. Especially if they have all night to do it. Parked behind a building we would never know somebody was there.
We are looking into a Camera system, but that also will not recover a stolen item. Most likely thieves would use a stolen truck/trailer that could not be traced back to them. A camera system WOULD help prosecute the offenders when they are caught.
The question was about Theft Recovery and if anybody had any real-world experience with a product.
I also appologise, maybe my message was a little hard to read, for some reason it crammed my post into 1 close spaced paragraph that I know are hard to read.
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