Stolen!! - Crusher gone

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dig dug dan
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Post: # 99733Post dig dug dan

Bad news. I have beend conned into hiring a crusher, and he has not returned at along with the plant trailer. He recently did the same scam to one of my suppliers and they lost two dumpers and a crusher. They got one dumper back after it was seen for sale on ebay, but he has not been caught.
Same name, same details. PAYG phone, fake email address. I have got some leads. It was alst seen in yaxley, peterborough.
The trailer is unmistakable, as its painted red, the crusher is only 6months old, and with only one supplier of spares, i think its a matter of time before its brought by someone unsuspecting, and they get caught when they buy spares.

below is the crusher in the trailer. still waiting 24 hours later for the police to arrive:(
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anyone sees either, get in touch
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Post: # 99737Post Noony

hope you get it back dan, thats a right kick in the nuts...
the more people know about it the better
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Post: # 99738Post dig dug dan

have posted on arbtalk and landscape juice too. Trying to register it on a plant theft website,but cannot until i get a crime number :angry:
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Post: # 99740Post mickg

sorry to hear this Dan, I have posted it on Twitter
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dig dug dan
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Post: # 99741Post dig dug dan

nice one

once the police turn up, i will get it propogated on facebook too.
it cannot be that hard to find!
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Post: # 99742Post lutonlagerlout

hopefully they will catch him soon
sorry to hear of that Dan
did you deliver it yourself?
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Post: # 99743Post dig dug dan

no tony. it was a collection. alarm bells should of rung when it was a "man and van"company that collected it with "his son"
Luckily, i made a note of the company, and i found his website with his picture next to his van, so maybe find out where he delivered it too? I am hoping the police might do that
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Post: # 99745Post mickg

whats the web site name as you could possibly track down his address from the web site whois ?
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Post: # 99746Post lutonlagerlout

or companycheck
TBH I would always be a bit dubious of plant collections, apart from wackers or breakers we have never collected any plant
our digger man reckons willow plant want a grand deposit on a lot of plant now like dumpers etc.

how many of those crushers do you reckon there are in the country dan?

I have never seen any other than yours should be quite noticeable

good luck

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Post: # 99747Post dig dug dan

mick, the "hirer" has no website, just an MSN email

But i Do have an address and details of the van man, so its a lead, plus on the night it was picked up, an irate lady phoned from yaxley to complain it was parked in her space, so i had to ring him to ask him to move it.

Tony, i know of a handful. My old machine is in derbyshire, Mark harriss has one, and there were a couple knocking around in kent, but other than me and TCP, not many. Its going to be a hard machine to offload i think
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Post: # 99748Post mickg

you posted above that you "found his website with his picture next to his van" ?
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Bloody hell Dan, not good. Hope it can be located asap
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Post: # 99751Post dig dug dan

you posted above that you "found his website with his picture next to his van" ?


yes, thats the guy who turned up to collect it, not the guy i have been dealing with.
I tried to dangle a carrot to see if he would bite by saying could i come and collect it saturday for a sunday hire, then return it monday with a digger he wanted. The address he gave me did not exist so it was then i knew i had been duped. he texted some rubbish about being in hospital and giving a statement to police, again delaying tactics
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Post: # 99753Post lutonlagerlout

a mate of mine used to live in yaxley
the main thing with yaxley is ,its right bang next to the A1
i reckon your crusher will be heading north as we speak
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