Thieves HIT AGAIN! so we Build a Snow Bunker ...
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- čas přidán 18. 02. 2021
- Thieves steal our equipment trailer. We build a snow bunker with a new loader. We break up ice Banks with the backhoe, then stack the snow into a bunker and we pile the equipment inside.
Nothing pisses me off more than...all the money you pay to insurance companies and when you have to make a claim you are penalized!
Hey Stanley, (Almost retired cop here), a few things that might help catch these guys, (which you may already know)... 1. Video - If the businesses around you can turn a camera onto your equipment, it might be beneficial to LEO's in catching them. If there are no cameras, set up your own. Trail cameras with low intensity infrared is very affordable. You can set them up for still shots, interval shots, and video recording. And you don't have to check them every day. If you can't get one pointed at your equipment, see if you can install them at access points to catch plate #'s and suspect vehicles approaching or leaving. 2. GPS Tracking Devices - These are now available on the internet believe it or not. If the battery holds and you can find a place to hide it, set up a few of your pieces with them. You can track down your gear and call your LEO's when you find it. 3. Spread the word to the businesses around your storage areas. You would be surprised to find out that someone saw something or someone that might help catch your bad guys. 4. Your LEO's - Ask for patrol checks from the law enforcement agency that covers the area where you store your gear. Often times, patrol officers will make that area their new report writing area and park there in addition to checking the area often. 5. Latent Evidence Processing - Advise your LEO's that your company has been hit pretty hard with thefts. Ask if they can process for latent fingerprints and more importantly, latent DNA evidence. Its pretty easy to do, but they will need 'known samples' from any of your crew that touches the equipment regularly to rule them out. 6. - Alarms - There are small high pitched electronic alarms that you can install, (hopefully in a hard to get area), where you set the contacts on hatch panels, door access areas, etc. When the circuit is broken, the alarm screams loudly, (deafeningly). Its a good deterrent, especially if they can't get to where the alarm unit is hidden. I hate to see good people getting victimized. I hope that you get your equipment back, and I sure hope that bad guys get caught!
Stealing someone’s tools is beyond enraging!
How about A GPS Tracking service. A lot of people use them and especially in Europe.
Weld your name on EVERYTHING. And stamp it everywhere. make it so they have to wreck something to remove it.
Nothing pisses me off more than someone who doesn’t respect your property, hopefully you’ll catch them...
Personally, I was hoping the snow bunker had a sniper nest.
You think after the first time you'd stick a trail camera on one of those trees behind your equipment
gps tracking on everything, locks on everything. leaving trailers unlocked and not monitored on a site is just careless. theft is a crime of opportunity so make it not so easy and youll deter 9/10 thieves.
I hate a thief, need to revert back in time and put a damn thief in stocks in the town square for all to see.
How does Stanley make moving dirt and snow so interesting? Given that l live in sunny Australia, I just have no concept of snow and ice like this in winter. Full credit to the men and women who live and operate in these climates. (I too have had things stolen, as a 20yr Police Veteran, nothing pleased me more than catching a thief who had stolen from a hard working family or individual). Western society would benefit from an Islamic approach to thieves, chop chop!
sounds like you need some security cameras facing the back of your lot
They make super small and battery operated gps devices now. I have hard wired ones in my equipment and have battery operated ones I can move around. If I leave equipment somewhere I create a geofencing around it’s location. If it moves I get a text and email. I can then literally follow it on a map. It’s cheap insurance. So the hardwired ones can also text you if the key is turned on.
Dude your empathy for your fellow human being is so admirable!!!! Dump truck driver or not. It helps keep my faith in humanity when you speak from the heart like that. Thanks Stan!!
I would have parked 2 skid steer side by side the the tlb deere across the back of them in the snow bunker! Make them Pos really work for the equipment to steel it! Happy late birthday Sam!
Some of your equipment can fit into a shipping container. Maybe a shipping containter that is bolted into a set of metal stakes in the ground, can reduce theft?
I really respect how you manage to stay positive throughout the whole thing even if people steal from you. We had a guy digging through our center console and we caught him red handed. He took off running and we got a laugh when he ran into a neighboring lot that was a sheet of black ice and kept slipping and getting back up.
I see one guy who prevents his stuff from getting taken,, paints all his trailer and small equipment bright purple or something like that. Making it very hard to sell..
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