Theft

[ambient]

had 1000 litres of red diesel knicked last night managad to cut lockbox off shipping container funnilly enough loads of travellers around our way at the moment

[rab1]

funny you say that, 3 sites we`re on at the moment have been robbed, strangely enough the soap dodging non tax paying caravan dwellers have been in town, silly bastards stole from the ducting lads, whole wagon load, worth about £30 scrap major pain in the arse for us.

[dig dug dan]

Had a strange request for a micro crusher and a 3 tonne crusher to go to one address.
Phoned up TCP for a price on the 3 tonner, and they told me this was the same guy who had juts nicked a 3 tonner and a micor off of them! glad i didn't do the hire now.
I have trakker, but its a waste of money each year, and gives me no discount on insurance. the pikeys just overload the electrics and blow up the trakker unit anyway

[Dave_L]

1000l of gas oil?? Sheesh that's like 5 drums-worth! How are they gaining access to it ffs??

[lutonlagerlout]

if it smells why bother?
i can spot them a mile off,nice shiny vehicles , lots of expensive decals and photos
will end up like car hire when they take a grand deposit off your credit card
LLL

[ambient]

1000l of gas oil?? Sheesh that's like 5 drums-worth! How are they gaining access to it ffs??

our yard is at the back of a mill so its dark and quiet at night so theyve cut lock off gate,theyve butchered the steel box that covers the lock on container cut the lock off and opened shipping container hoping to steal 3 ton digger luckily no digger in there its on a job so seen the diesel tank and decided to empty that instead just filled it a fortnight since
believe it or not our hiab tipper is in same yard never bothered with it usually thats what theyre after

[Suggers]

so seen the diesel tank and decided to empty that instead

How do they do that? - are we talking a big amount? - what do they put it into? (do I sound a bit naive? - just had 500L of red delivered.)
As a postscript, last week my luvly innoccent younger bruv, has just had the lead flashing nicked, from the new extension to the front of his house !! - the whole family is home & asleep - next door neighbour is old bill, always sleeps with his window open, he heard nowt, nobody heard a thing...
About a 15m strip at 1st floor plate level - this is a quiet suburban street - how the hell do you do that without at least waking up somebody? ???

edit - ps- I keep telling my bruv to get a dog - his kids would love one, but he reckons his 2 teenage boys, after initial honeymoon period, will leave him lumbered with the responsibility. He's probably right.

pps - I'm convinced that our 3 f**in' noisy Schnausers have made the pikeys go elsewhere.

[flowjoe]

Had a 1.5 tonne excavator lifted off a sewer connection job last night, site across the road (Flintoffs new gaffe) were also missing an excavator and other plant.

Top range Audi seen cruising the road at 5.30ish, lads thought nothing of it as its a big money area. B%STA$DS

[GB_Groundworks]

how about this for cheeky, site we are on in wilmslow(posh area) cut the padlock off the gates. had a route rd everything of value is locked up in shipping container with 13 ton machine parked up to it and shuttered.

so they nicked the £30 security chain off the gates and a shovel, went down the rd and tried to break into the jaguar garage with the shovel, cops got them and want us to press charges for nicking the shovel haha

[flowjoe]

Our sites just down the road Giles, these guys must have balls of iron to turn up on site apparently just after 6ish, fire up the machine and off. Every other house is a building site so noboby thinks twice its just a late pick up/delivery.

Having said that whats the worst thing that happens if they get caught ?

[Tommy]

Loads of stories about machine thefts, just have to walk with a bit of authority, jump in/on machine, put it on back of the wagon, and off they go. - Most think it's a legit move, or its being taken to another site etc.


Had a problem with this at my old place.
The main garages were connected to the gaffers office, and the main entrance, which you have to walk through to open the roller doors.
A bloke rocks up in some machine dealer' liveried truck, opens the roller doors to the cemetery and grave digging lads garage, loads up the Jcb Groundhog, a John Deere zero turn mower, and the gravediggers' 3 tonne Takeuchi.
Shuts the roller doors, walks back out the main entrance (boss figured he was going to get paperwork from the cab) hears the hiss of air brakes, and see's the truck pull off.


That story aint as amusing as my mate's employer, who called my mate (who was mixing mortar in the front yard) into the back yard to help moving a string line.
Both go back into the front yard, only to see the mixer, still turning, halfway down the road on the back of a van

[GB_Groundworks]

yeah i know where flintofs gaff is, we had some lads in new transit call on site selling tools, got rid before they could see what we had

we got lucky on last site in poyton, guys turned up saturday morning got the jcb 803 started, ran it off the site and had a recover wagon there like AA type with the back down ready to take the digger. neighbour pulls up and waits for them as they are blogging his drive, they get panicky as he just sits there and leg it.

wagon was nicked, left the machine running on the road haha.

same time as a pikey camp had just set up in poyton near the barrowmix wagon factory, did get a breaker later that year 1.5 ton mini was left with it on but with the tracks sat on the breaker, used some of the floor joists to lever it up and take the breaker.

[GB_Groundworks]

dads just called me our 1.5 ton yanmar stolen of our site in wilmslow tonight at 6.30pm. land rover and trailer got the plates and police traced them but no word on machine yet.

[Dave_L]

Local landscaper down here has lost hired-in kit to the value of £30K recently.

You cannot afford to leave any small plant on site these days - haul it back to yard each night.

[GB_Groundworks]

yeah i normally do but dads running that site, if i do leave it i always park it within the tracks of the 13 ton and then stick the bucket infront, vandal guards on so it make it more difficult. the ladsjust left it round the back don't think they even locked it!!! there will be a talk on monday morning.