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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:25 pm
by GB_Groundworks
our little jcb 801.6 has just been stolen from our site in wilmslow cheshire, second time this has happened. took our yanmar in december, cut locks on gate, broke into big machine and un trapped little one.
loaded it onto trailer behind white ford pickup truck, this all being monitored by our cctv company. drove off with our site's neighbor following him, must have clocked he was being followed pulled into local tesco petrol station gotout and left truck tailer and machine.
police dealing with it now, hopefully have some good pics of him on our cctv or tesco.
photo above was taken yesterday before dumper parked infront of mini trapping it in. mini's from now on are going to have to come home everyday.
least we got machine back but those thieving barstewards
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:37 pm
by Tommy
Could you not fit Ram-locks on it with the dipper in the dumper before trapping it in?
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:15 pm
by GB_Groundworks
yeah its them or the track locks or the more sophisticated hydraulic pump locks that they say can't be beat, machine only stand us at about 3k so think it'll be track locks or just take it home every night or bring a steel shipping container down park it in there but site is tight on space.
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:40 pm
by Mikey_C
neighbour was brave I would have called the police but there is no way I would have followed him. i guess you owe him a pint or two
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 10:23 pm
by rab1
buy the time the police bothered to turn up (if they bothered) the machine would be in ireland.
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 10:58 pm
by ABILITY
We have track locks on our machines ( bit of a pain to put on each night ) plus an number of hidden imobiliser switches etc. Have removed the filter bowls as well when on certain sites !
Lost a Hitachi machine from job in Hale.
Mate had one nicked from a container on a school site in Sale, they cut the locking bars with hydralic pinchers like the fire brigade use !!
They pushed my old dumber he had on loan out of the container first - looks to battered to be bothered with - but works great !
Hope they get catch the theifing bas*ards from the CCTV - seems they are busy in this area !
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:19 pm
by lutonlagerlout
they have knocked car thievery on the head (more or less ) surely they can do the same with plant
manufacturers need to do more to make the stuff harder to nick
LLL
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:51 pm
by irishpaving
They were doing you a favour getting rid of it :p :p
Machines should be fitted with trackers by the manufactors nowadays......
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 8:16 pm
by Pablo
A mate of mine has fitted detachable battery leads to all his plant they take 30 seconds to fit and remove and he's beefed up the locks on the battery housing. It seems a simple solution although if eveyone did it they'd just carry their own leads.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 8:52 pm
by rab1
as lll stated: car theft is now unheard off because of the pressure put on manufactures to combat this. why dont plant manufactures do the same as plant costs a dam sight more than a car and most car manufactures also make plant ???
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 9:06 pm
by mickg
i was talking to the guy in my local hire centre about the keypad and code required to start the digger what are fitted to all their diggers and is it very secure as another hire company had told me they are a waste of time and can easily be bypassed
anyway he said another depot had watched our traveling friends on CCTV for 3 hours trying to bypass the unit until they finally cracked the code and drove the digger straight through the steel gates and onto a waiting trailer what had just turned up
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 9:42 pm
by Mikey_C
mickg wrote:i was talking to the guy in my local hire centre about the keypad and code required to start the digger what are fitted to all their diggers and is it very secure as another hire company had told me they are a waste of time and can easily be bypassed
anyway he said another depot had watched our traveling friends on CCTV for 3 hours trying to bypass the unit until they finally cracked the code and drove the digger straight through the steel gates and onto a waiting trailer what had just turned up
you can't help but think with that level of ingenuity and perseverance the could be good at a proper job.
the police are pretty good round our way, i phoned the local station (non-emergency) up the other day after two undesirables had strolled slowly and aimless down the road looking up driveways and in cars, parents left 5 minutes later and had seen them being stopped and talked to by the police. coppers turned up at my address to debrief 10 minutes later.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:12 pm
by lutonlagerlout
mickg wrote:i was talking to the guy in my local hire centre about the keypad and code required to start the digger what are fitted to all their diggers and is it very secure as another hire company had told me they are a waste of time and can easily be bypassed
anyway he said another depot had watched our traveling friends on CCTV for 3 hours trying to bypass the unit until they finally cracked the code and drove the digger straight through the steel gates and onto a waiting trailer what had just turned up
thing is mick if the technology is there to stop cars being nicked it should be available for plant
my mate used to have a sea doo jet ski and they were fool proof,thieving lobster fishermen pinched the jetski but then rang the coastguard to report it found adrift ,because they couldnt start it
under marine law we had to give them some salvage (ended up £200) my mate got very agitated upon hearing this and wanted to serve them up,however they were clever enough not to take us to the jetski till they had the money 
but the point is,the technology is there why not use it
BTW talking to a m8 of mine from co.donegal last week,he said his mate has 4 8 wheelers on tick from the bank but no work and no means of paying for them.
anyway he takes the keys log books etc to the bank and says " here ye go"
and you know what they said?
"you hang onto them for now" £300k of lorries and no work or use for them
he said they have whole new estates empty in donegal,the council want to knock them down and put farmland back??
LLL
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:17 pm
by mickg
yeah I agree seeing as a brand new digger is a lot more expensive than an average family salon car ( and more fun to drive too) 
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:53 pm
by Pablo
lutonlagerlout wrote:he said they have whole new estates empty in donegal,the council want to knock them down and put farmland back??
LLL
It's Ireland wide they're going to be demolishing 20% of all unoccupied new builds due to a massive oversupply.
