How they steal tractors in my place

[lman]

Sorry about your tractor being stolen. Must always keep tractors outa sight. Looks like a coordless reciprocating saw was used on the chain and they cut until the batteries went dead. To be strictly honest, there is not a single chain or lock that cannot be defeated by determined thieves. Most around here put portable generators and a highspeed grinding tool in the back of the truck. 5 mins for a chain and your tractor is theirs. They bring their own trailers with a tow winch for moving the tractor off the lot. Messicks has a video of thieves stealing a $90,000 skid steer right out of the dealers yard.

I lived all over the world, and I found except for Nigeria and Russia, the US has the highest crime in the world. Much of it just goes unreported or the US crime statistics would be far worse.

Why are you living in the highest crime area in the world. Why didn't you stay at one of the other crime free locations you've been at. I've never lived anywhere but the U.S.A. but I think the crime rate would be one of the biggest factors for your home location. I did have my mailbox nailed by some kid with a ball bat, but that's it for me. Of course all of my equipment is locked in my barn and my road ends at the corn field down the road.

 

[hdmyers]

Why are you living in the highest crime area in the world. Why didn't you stay at one of the other crime free locations you've been at. I've never lived anywhere but the U.S.A. but I think the crime rate would be one of the biggest factors for your home location. I did have my mailbox nailed by some kid with a ball bat, but that's it for me. Of course all of my equipment is locked in my barn and my road ends at the corn field down the road.

I wonder if Indiana is a high contributor to the crime rates? I also wonder why the US has such a high incarceration rate? It seems to be that there may be an industry of private prisons to be fed? So Crime rate has potential to be artificially inflated to support the private incarceration industry. I say may, I believe it is definitively so.
SO your location is key...as mentioned early in the thread by industrial toys.

I'm very rural...have no issues so far..but many reports of thievery that moves around the rural areas. I think a gate on our drive would be useful (1400ft driveway), but then also inconvenient for us and/or the plow guy etc.

The inconvenience of having to deal with teh aftermath of methhead thieves must be terrible

 

[3Ts]

Here, if you live on your property, it's unlikely you'll have a problem with theft. However, if you own property and come out to it one weekend a month, chances are higher that something will be missing. The tractors have a generic key so it's easy to get one. What the typical theft is here, is a tractor of an absentee landowner is started up with a key, driven onto a trailer, taken down to the seaport and put on a ship headed for another country, so it's on it's way out of the country in just a couple of days. No real chance of recovery even if GPS tells you where it is.

BTW, that happens more often with construction equipment than tractors.

 

[ptsg]

If I leave my tractor outside for a week or so, the battery and starter will be gone, the fuel tank will be empty with a hole drilled on the bottom. If the tank was already empty when the thieves arrive, they will kindly fill the engine with dirt through the valve cover fill port.

 

[rademamj1]

Thieves even steal from tractor dealers using identity theft. I purchased a nice Kubota GR2120 in April and the manager had the State Police in his office before we signed the purchase and finance agreements.

Apparently an M6060 was stolen just a few hours earlier, when a customer using fake drivers license and other fake ID's of a "real person" with excellent credit history simply received full credit approval, signed all documents, then loaded up the M6060 tractor onto a trailer and was out the door before Kubota Credit called the dealer about a minor credit issue, which then alerted the manager.

 

[rademamj1]

I wonder if Indiana is a high contributor to the crime rates? I also wonder why the US has such a high incarceration rate? It seems to be that there may be an industry of private prisons to be fed? So Crime rate has potential to be artificially inflated to support the private incarceration industry. I say may, I believe it is definitively so.
SO your location is key...as mentioned early in the thread by industrial toys.

I'm very rural...have no issues so far..but many reports of thievery that moves around the rural areas. I think a gate on our drive would be useful (1400ft driveway), but then also inconvenient for us and/or the plow guy etc.

The inconvenience of having to deal with teh aftermath of methhead thieves must be terrible

I don't know about Indiana, but here in Texas, every individual incarcerated has went through a lengthy jury trial where suffcient evidence must be presented before any guilty verdict is rendered. Appeal process is available for those recieving a guilty verdict, who believe it was not justified. Those incarcerated have gone through the jury process, and crime rates here are definitely under reported.

 

[MF243RedTop]

Put a solenoid in the fuel line that is controlled by a hidden ignition lock. It's getting uncomfortable when the machine runs out of fuel while the thieves drive it up the ramps.

This... Most won't go that far to figure out why it wouldn't crank...

 

[Industrial Toys]

Just for starters, you have to do away with that universal key. That alone, will throw a #$%k into their plans. The more stuff you can do to make it apparent that their intended plans aren't working, the more likely they are to leave and find an easier target.

 

[AWSubie]

Land mines work best as theft deterrent. They are cheap and easy to make.

 

[murphy1244]

Just for starters, you have to do away with that universal key. That alone, will throw a #$%k into their plans. The more stuff you can do to make it apparent that their intended plans aren't working, the more likely they are to leave and find an easier target.

Got to be more than that! What else should us peasants do?