Theft

[stav 75]

yep same here! gypo'd set up, crime goes up, just outlaw the fkrs & have it done with!! pay me enough & I will gladly go & help round them up!! I'm too angry about this issue to be scared of any one!!

[stav 75]

funny actually because I live in the sticks & the last 3 weeks or so there has been a load of white vans bombing up & down this road all times & days of the week , I stopped a passing copper today & asked if there had been any local thefts, & surprise of surprises... yes, in the last month or so a *sudden* surge they are probs hired so a number plate would be useless anyway, & unless they catch them in the act they can't do a thing .

[Dave_L]

Local plant hire outfit lost 3 takeuchi 125 machines last weekend from their compound - the thieves fired up a TB175 and flattened the metal palisade security fencing, drove the 125's out and loaded them away.

[rab1]

could be wrong but is most plant not now fitted with trackers?

[stav 75]

I dont know if my plant hire guy was taking the michael, but he said that now they can even track when the plant is in operation , which is bad news for those extra long dinner breaks

[Pablo]

could be wrong but is most plant not now fitted with trackers?

Trackers are easy to by pass you just overload the electrics and it fries then you re-fuse the circuits you need and you're away. Systems not worth the money and isn't a deterent.

[GB_Groundworks]

the bigger brand new machines from cat etc have remote tracking and maintenance like fuel level etc etc, there was a sorry about tracking a stolen dozer to germany not long ago.

i read a thing the other day from the people who track plant theft and offer a register to record serial numbers etc. they said common problem is electrics being short circuited,(ark welder connected up in reverse polarity does the trick appartently), or into a shipping container no signal or another one is they park the machine some where rural but very close to mobile phone tower so they know its got a signal if its still there 3 days later it not tracked etc.

despite the police having the vehicle reg and cctv of the two men we have heard nothing.

[rab1]

one of the transport companies our suppliers use had £400 of diesel stolen at the weekend, rather than just cut the fuel line to the tank, the tossers burst the tank base. 1000l tank, guy reckons that it will cost more for the tank than the fuel.

[Tommy]

Surely a way round this tracker problem, is to either remotely track it, or have the tracker on a separate circuit.

Even better way is to have the ram guards and track locks that are available as a physical deterrent

[GB_Groundworks]

broken into over the weekend cut their way into the materials lock up, got £1k worth of copper, bomag whacker, stihl saw, hilti dd100 core master and full set of cores, full set of american easco spanners from 8mm to 32mm really annoying they were reyt handy, little honda 1 inch pump and some rolls of 2.5mm cable, did the site next door as well, bastards.

monitored cctv being installed this week, and sparky putting some security lights up tomorrow.

barstewards

[lutonlagerlout]

you will like this one

working today had a tonne of ballast on the pick up ,mixer set up lean mixing the cavities

heard a roar like a hedge trimmer

2 pikeys on a mini motorbike zooming along the pavement doing around 20mph

they shouted out "cheersz mait" in that obvious pikey brogue,and i thought it strange

my labourer went off like a rabbit after them ,they had nicked the petrol can with 5litres of 2 stroke mix by riding between the moving mixer and the pick up (avoiding cones too)

anyway 40 yds up the road he was closing on their hairdryer moped

sadly after months of telling him to do up his laces ,he was hoisted by his own petard

a boot came off and wobbs did a spectacular cartwheel and landed on his face
the thieving gypsy b'stards waved and wizzed off across some poor souls lawn into the ether

poor wobbs dog had to be put down last night so maybe it was a good thing he didnt catch them as it wouldnt have ended well

welcome to luton ,have a nice day

LLL

[digerjones]

Oh dear what's a petard.
Sounds like you live in he'll compared to my country life.
Dropped pickup off tonight. A couple of miles away. For service tomorrow. Got to walk across the field in morning to work. About 1/4 mile.

[digerjones]

My world http://www.audlem.org/

[lutonlagerlout]

new (second hand ) fuel can with 2 stroke mix now sitting on the back of the pickup
just in case the thieving gits have a sweet tooth i have added 500gr of tate and lyles finest :;):
no doubt one of our lot will put it in the stihl
the bait is there come and get it you thieving sods
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

Dylan you are making me green with envy

http://www.audlem.org/newsroom/headlines/lost-walking-stick.html

my town

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-35266675

beaten to death with a dumbell so word on the street says


LLL