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Some one out there knows your schedule knows you have lots of cool stuff and knows when you leave your stuff unattended and wants to get money to stay high or drunk for a week or weekend.The thought of some one stealing equipment and gear from an honest hard working person who has built it up over many years just so they can get high for a little while really disgusts me. I would have to say the best thing to have is insurance and pictures or other proof of your stuff. Renters insurance has saved my *** once and I do not want to have to use it again.It looks like thieves really like to steal stuff out of detached garages, followed by attached garages (a close second).To keep people out of the garage I park a vehicle against the garage door, not just near the garage door but actually touching it. Apparently they have figured out that if you hit a garage door just right can pop it open. They tried that on mine, only problem was there was a crow bar jammed in each side.Had a vehicle been parked in front of it I wouldn't have to get a new garage door. If the vehicle was inside parked against the door I think the damage would have been limited to a foot print on the door. Another thing I have done is barred windows and put nicer lockable storm door on the out side with a pad lock on the out side of the door between lockable the storm door, this makes it so the door cant be opened from the inside or outside with out a key.Make sure they cant get in, if they can get in, make sure they cant get out, you will be surprised by how little they will take if they can only get items out through a window. Be sure to secure or hide hacksaws and sledge hammers so they cant bust or get pissed and smash up what they cant take.Hasps: I was at lowes the other day and bought what I thought was a good $13 hasp. Nope. The hinge wasn't even a hinge, it was 2 hinge halves driven into the hinge barrel. These faux hinges can be pried out with a decent screw driver and a hammer. To remedy this I popped the hinges out and put a metric bolt that had its threads snapped off that the shank and cold hammered the shank of the bolt to a nice mushroom. It sucks that you cant even get a decent hasp for $13.Some tack welds on each faux hinge would have worked but I wanted to go a little overboard.Then make stuff too big to steal. Some one tried to steal my welder this year but they only managed to pull the power cord out of it. My mig was bolted to the over sized welding cart with 2 gas bottles. There is no way 2 smaller guys are going to lift it up into the back of a pickup.Since then I have welded hard tie down points to my welding cart and bought a lot of chain, cable and locks. If I have to leave for the weekend with out it I chain it to something immoveable.They could have stolen my plasma cutter but it was packed up tight in its road case, and the road case was being used as a table, perfectly camouflaged.I don't have a welding truck but I saw a welding truck in town, this poor guy must have had his stuff stolen several time. He had his welding cables rolls wrapped with big heavy chain over and over again, chain almost completely covering the cables and he had his cutting torch regulators removed.Some crack head can cut your lines and take your regulators and get about $3 for each for them at a scrap yard.I buy tanks and regulators all the time from the scrap yard, not sure how they got there...Fences with locking gate and dogs appear to keep people away pretty good, as far as I can tell I don't think any one has tried to take every thing from the back yard or try to access it. Every one the trail cam catches is on the correct side of the fence. As opposed to the front yard, the trail cam catches random jerks in the middle of my yard waking through between 2 and 3:30 am way too often.I am going to try rigging up about 1200 watts worth of motion detector lights and see if that drives them away. A tesla coil on a motion sensor would be ideal buy may have legal implications.Hedge hogs, my idea of a lawn orderment: I finished the my first one, real pointy and nasty, there is one place in the back yard where if some one would try and go over the fence that is where they would do it, this is where I plan to store my sharp pointy hedge hogs. Only problem is then I have to keep the dogs form impaling their selves on said hedge hogs.Once I get several more they will pop up in other fun locations. I may use large rocks or hedge hogs to coral vehicles to where I can get good pictures of them.Get some game cameras to track the most dangerous game. If some one does take your gear and you have pictures of them doing it and know who they are Chances are the police still wont do anything even if you do 90% of their job for them. You are likely going to have to take matters into your own hands. old Miller spectrum 625 Lincoln SP-135 T, CO2+0.025 wireMiller model 250 and WP-18V torchCraftsman 100amp AC/DC and WP-17V torchCentury 115-004 HF arc stabilizerHome made 4 transformer spot welderHome made alternator welder
Reply:Replace glass windows with thick plexiglass and take the orbital sander to them.Light comes in, but you get that expensive frosted look in window that can't be smashed.
Reply:Yup it is getting bad in this country we live in! I live a little ranching town of about 2,000 people and the theft and drugs are even hitting us.Up until last year I never thought twice about leaving my leads coiled up in clear view on my work truck. Or my pistol on my dashboard/ rifle in rear window in my never locked pickup Hell my one rifle never came out of it unless it was to clean it. but after having my wife's car broken into and having some cash stolen. It all gets locked up now(still pisses me off when I lock the keys in my truck as I have yet to break the habit of leaving the keys in the ign....) My home shop is near my bedroom window so I am lucky that way on hearing someone in my shop at night. But I am convinced that I would find them trapped in the am as my roll up door assist spring broke a few years ago and I never replaced it and it is bent so it makes a hell of a racket and must be vise gripped in place to stay up and my side barn style door the tin drags in the gravel so that's not too quiet either(not to mention the old WARN alarm bell mounted on a rope and hooked to the door with a loop and nail from the inside open that up at two in the morning and DING! DING!you get to meet me and my .357 magnum....Millermatic 30aMillermatic 210Miller thunderbolt 225 ac/dc/ccMiller HF15-1-wg tigLincoln ranger 10(honda powered)Cebora 175 mig Too damn many tools but oddly not enough......
Reply:NM? Plant a lot of jumping cactus (God's razor wire) around the yard, outside windows, both sides of perimeter wall/fence, ...100% legal and nasty as sh..Last edited by wirehead; 10-07-2013 at 05:23 AM.XMT304 (school)SP125+ (home)HF 4x6 BandsawGood judgement comes from experience and much of that comes from bad judgement.
Reply:Interesting threat.Here in the north of the netherlands crime isn't such a big issue but it's getting bigger...
Reply:Motion lights! Lots and lots of motion lights! Have been keeping my property people free for 20 years now!
Reply:In los Angeles, all the city workers lock all their boxes and the trucks whenever they are working, even right next to the truck, cuz these crack heads steal shot from right under their nosesSent w/ Tapatalk using Swype, pls excuse typos now FreeTiger Sales: AHP Distributor www.tigersalesco.comAHP200x; AHP 160ST; MM350P, Spoolmatic 30A; Everlast PowerTig 185; Thermal Dynamics 60i plasma. For Sale: Cobra Mig 250 w/ Push-pull gun. Lincoln Wirematic 250
Reply:In los Angeles, all the city workers lock all their boxes and the trucks whenever they are working, even right next to the truck, cuz these crack heads steal $hit from right under their nosesSent w/ Tapatalk using Swype, pls excuse typos now Free[/QUOTE]Sent w/ Tapatalk using Swype, pls excuse typos now FreeTiger Sales: AHP Distributor www.tigersalesco.comAHP200x; AHP 160ST; MM350P, Spoolmatic 30A; Everlast PowerTig 185; Thermal Dynamics 60i plasma. For Sale: Cobra Mig 250 w/ Push-pull gun. Lincoln Wirematic 250
Reply:American bulldogs and a reputation for killing things covers me. Moron kept cutting my fence and grazing his cows at night. I warned him. TWICE.He woke up one morning to 13 cows piled in front of his gate. Each with 00 buck in it's head. Luckily, I have a backhoe.We've(my dogs or me) killed many a stray dog and cats too. I hang them in a tree outside the gate. It trains idiots to keep their f%^**#g dogs and cats at home ! The gate is 1/4 mile from the house and down wind.Bubble gumTooth pixDuct tapeBlack glueGBMF hammerScrew gun --bad battery (see above)
Reply:Originally Posted by BurpeeThe gate is 1/4 mile from the house and down wind.
Reply:Unfortunately, regular padlocks are useless. One good strike with a hammer right next to the shakle will pop them right open and usually leave them able to re-lock after. I've seen it numerous times in my professional life and recently had to use this method personally. The sad fact is that if someone wants in bad enough then they will get in. The only thing to do is to make it difficult enough to discourage them and have good insurance for when they do.
Reply:"I hate to knock down your ego some, but if there is even a kernel of truth to what you just wrote, you are a psychopath.Unless I missed something on the evening news last night, I don't recall god reaching down from the heavens with his finger and anointing you the king of .Just remember that if what I say does nothing to your ego finding yourself placed in the same tree by the hands of one of your less neighborly neighbors sure will."+1
Reply:Originally Posted by mtrcyclecopUnfortunately, regular padlocks are useless. One good strike with a hammer right next to the shakle will pop them right open and usually leave them able to re-lock after. I've seen it numerous times in my professional life and recently had to use this method personally. The sad fact is that if someone wants in bad enough then they will get in. The only thing to do is to make it difficult enough to discourage them and have good insurance for when they do.
Reply:Originally Posted by BurpeeAmerican bulldogs and a reputation for killing things covers me. Moron kept cutting my fence and grazing his cows at night. I warned him. TWICE.He woke up one morning to 13 cows piled in front of his gate. Each with 00 buck in it's head. Luckily, I have a backhoe.We've(my dogs or me) killed many a stray dog and cats too. I hang them in a tree outside the gate. It trains idiots to keep their f%^**#g dogs and cats at home ! The gate is 1/4 mile from the house and down wind.
Reply:Originally Posted by Rog02With the modern technology it is easy enough to have some sort of video surveillance. There are two schools of thought on this. The first being covert and hiding the cameras, which provides evidence of the break in or intrusion and may prove helpful in the apprehension of the perpetrator, and the second is open surveillance which mounts the cameras in sight (albeit hard to reach locations) and advertising the fact that they are in place and all is being recorded.
Reply:Originally Posted by Rog02"Locks will only keep honest people honest." That's lesson #1 in locksmith's school!All padlocks should only be viewed as a minor deterrent. As stated some are easily defeated with a hammer while others will require a torch, but they all can be removed in some manner. .
Reply:All locks do is keep you covered for your insurance, they don't really deter theft but they do prove that you tried to protect your insured belongings which keeps the insurance companies from denying your coverage. We found that out the hard way, things get stolen from unlocked areas and they don't want to cover them, keep everything locked up and your dues paid and they really have no choice but to cut a check.
Reply:Not even a neighbor. This idiot marched his cows five miles down the road and cut my fence. Innumerable times! Then my guy has to run the lines every single day to find where this meathead cut it. That's about 8 miles of fence. The stray(let loose) dogs are full of mange, ticks and every other damn thing and terrorize the chicken house and hog pens. They get dead. The display is a reminder. I rent land cheap to two other guys who graze beef and sheep here. This idiot is a thieving freeloader. He doesn't even tag his animals(illegal) so when they get hit by a car the car owner has no way to track the animals for compensation. The law is a waste of time. Problem solved.Maybe the people tossed out of there houses up there by the badged park Nazis(govt shutdown huh) could take a page from my book. Cowards.Bubble gumTooth pixDuct tapeBlack glueGBMF hammerScrew gun --bad battery (see above)
Reply:Forget the dogs and the guns, get a pair of these to patrol the premises:This one is standing in the moat. - MondoMember, AWSLincoln ProMIG 140Lincoln AC TombstoneCraftsman Lathe 12 x 24 c1935Atlas MFC Horizontal MillCraftsman Commercial Lathe 12 x 36 c1970- - - I'll just keep on keepin' on.
Reply:Originally Posted by MondoForget the dogs and the guns, get a pair of these to patrol the premises:This one is standing in the moat. - Mondo
Reply:Originally Posted by soutthpawYay! Tigers rock, I'd do this.... Sent w/ Tapatalk using Swype, pls excuse typos now Free
Reply:Light, light, and more light. Neighbor down the road had $16,000 worth of stuff stolen from his garage and home. the house was empty less than 2 hours. His house is light up like a friday night football game now. we had a street light installed and have dusk till dawn lights. My shop isn't as close to my room as I'd like, but the yapper dog and the real dog let us know if anyone's about. I also have my retired father in law who lives across the street and is always out in his yard working on this that or the other, or he's sitting in his living room or office that both have a straight shot view of my shop. The wife runs a daycare during the day so there is always someone there, or watching. Pictures, and lots of locks. unfortunately My shop isn't big enough to have everything bolted down. but the next one will be.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:Originally Posted by ThorsHammer so there is always someone there, or watching
Reply:I'm not kidding. My neighbors are my in-laws. Litterally across the street. so far as I can tell, him keeping and eye on our place when we're gone, and his skid steer are the only benefits of this arrangement for me at least. He's got access to my tools if he needs though. He's been doing some welding recently. I haven't see the latest project, but based on the results of the last one I saw I'm waiting for him to try to use it so that I can reweld it for him. assuming that he doesn't tear it appart to much when he does use it.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:I rarely go in the back yard of my shop for anything as there is only a man door access from the shop out there. Last time I did the old gal in the trailer park behind the shop raised Hell with me for being back there...thought I was casing the place.Lincoln PrecisionTig 275Miller 251Miller DialArc 250Bridgeport millHossfeld bender & diesLogan shaperJet 14 X 40 latheSouth Bend 9" 'C'Hypertherm 900Ellis 3000 band saw21"Royersford ExcelsiorTwo shops, still too many tools.You know what also works...having motion activated night vision cameras hooked up to a computer in the room you sleep in. Set up so that the screen turns on when they pick up motion...then when you see some dumb-A** out in your yard, you come out with an AR15 with a strobe light on the front and scream at them in your best drill sergeant voice to get on the ground or you'll shoot them. If you know what you're doing and you're really going for it, you can also put some zip tie cuffs on them while they're on the ground and then have a bit of a chat with them. I usually also have them pull out their ID and then I take a nice photo of it and make it clear that I know exactly where they live now and who they are. This all requires (at least in WA) that you have no trespassing signs up, etc... Used to have a bunch of stupid teenagers walking around the neighborhood at night looking for things to steel or break (and a couple dealing from their cars in the area). None of them around now, I guess having to walk home with a load in your pants and tears in your eyes from being scared into ****ting yourself kinda makes you skip over that neighborhood.--Wintermute"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." - John Lockewww.improvised-engineering.comManufacturer Agnostic:Blood----------Sweat---------Tears----|------------------|----------------|----Lincoln Red, Miller Blue, Esab Yellow
Reply:Don' t expect sh!t from the law. Had my house burglarized by a coke whore 3 years ago. Doors left unlocked...why? This is Maine. That stuff only happens in them fancy places like NY and Chicago. Right?Wrong. Maine..The Promised Land ...is growing up. Anyway, the cops got clear photos of the coke whore using my credit card at an ATM and identified her ...a local with a record a mile long. 3 years later...still out on the loose. Has 3 kids. What are we gonna do?.. Put her in the slammer? I lock the doors now and carry a little something with me at all times. I pray to find some sleazebag breaking into my shop. I pray on my knees. Every night.... POVERTY...is the Mother of InventionMillermatic 211Millermatic 140Miller Thunderbolt XLArcOne 100STS inverter w/TIGThermal Dynamics 38XL Victor Oxy/AcetyleneJancy Slugger Holemaker IIJet 5x6 BandsawNever enough time & sleep.
Reply:Originally Posted by SMC WeldcraftDon' t expect sh!t from the law. Had my house burglarized by a coke whore 3 years ago. Doors left unlocked...why? This is Maine. That stuff only happens in them fancy places like NY and Chicago. Right?Wrong. Maine..The Promised Land ...is growing up. Anyway, the cops got clear photos of the coke whore using my credit card at an ATM and identified her ...a local with a record a mile long. 3 years later...still out on the loose. Has 3 kids. What are we gonna do?.. Put her in the slammer? I lock the doors now and carry a little something with me at all times. I pray to find some sleazebag breaking into my shop. I pray on my knees. Every night....
Reply:Originally Posted by 12345678910How did she use the card without your code number ?
Reply:Originally Posted by BurpeeThe law is a waste of time.
Reply:Originally Posted by 12345678910How did she use the card without your code number ?
Reply:Originally Posted by Mick120What's all this got to do with welding projects and pictures???????
Reply:Originally Posted by rlitmanDo what I do. Make friends with the elderly lady across the street who wears the crazy colored lipstick and always has her head in the window.No, but really, it does pay to know your neighbors, and have them know you.
Reply:One thing I'll add, avoid the brand "Lorex" for CCTV stuff! Their cameras aren't bad (but they aren't good either), their PC-based DVR's are PURE **** and customer service and documentation is horrible! Business I work for had stuff stolen, figured we were set since we had the dvr running NOPE it shut itself off after a crash! Since then we spent the money we should have early on and bought ourselves an ADT (rebadged Tyco) CCTV DVR, since then nothings gone missing without video of the perp! One of the guys who we do business with a lot had me set up another ADT/Tyco DVR in his coin op carwash, used the video to catch several lazy assholes in the act of dumping/littering all over his car wash because they're too lazy and cheap to take their **** to the dump!
Reply:Originally Posted by Mick120Not a bad idea.....gonna be a LOT of bars tho......
Reply:I would be worried if I were to have a burglary since I have a lot of tools. I live in a rural area, though, and there is always someone around and there are several cars and trucks there at various times through the day. It's been 37 years now in the same place and no burglary yet, but it could happen. One thing is sure, however. If they are going to steal tools, I don't have to worry about the milling machine or the lathe. The mill weighs 3,750 pounds and the lathe is close to 2,000. They would have a tough time getting those out of the barn. LOL. I think that my next acquisition will be a closed circuit TV as there are a number of good systems now that are relatively inexpensive.Miller Millermatic 252Miller Syncrowave 200Liincoln AC-DC 225Victor O-A Set
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Reply:Originally Posted by mtrcyclecopUnfortunately, regular padlocks are useless. One good strike with a hammer right next to the shakle will pop them right open and usually leave them able to re-lock after. I've seen it numerous times in my professional life and recently had to use this method personally.
Reply:Here is my hedge hog, before it was finished. (yes I welded way more spikes on to it)About 90% of that hedgehog is 1/4'' steel. Everything else is 3/16''.I added some cut chain links to my welder.Last edited by mad welder 4; 10-08-2013 at 02:38 PM.old Miller spectrum 625 Lincoln SP-135 T, CO2+0.025 wireMiller model 250 and WP-18V torchCraftsman 100amp AC/DC and WP-17V torchCentury 115-004 HF arc stabilizerHome made 4 transformer spot welderHome made alternator welder |
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