How to keep tractors battery from being stolen?

[arto98607]

Park your tractor in a safer place.

IE. Time to move elsewhere!

 

[Eagle1]

As others have said, a determined thief will not stop. Take the battery with you when you leave.

Welcome to TBN.

No way to live, IMHO. I will not live in a place everything has to be locked up , if I need to behind bars let it be my doing not the fear of what others might do.

My parents live behind barred windows and a high fence in a ritzy neighborhood. No way to live........

Even tweakers understand big dogs and shotguns....

 

[tacticalturnip]

Park it in the barn.

Get a gal.
Get a tractor.
Build a barn.
Put the gal on the tractor.
Put the tractor in the barn.

The American dream.

 

[Eagle1]

Get a gal.
Get a tractor.
Build a barn.
Put the gal on the tractor.
Put the tractor in the barn.

The American dream.

Not far off my ideal....

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

240v hot clipped to tractor frame.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Get a gal.
Get a tractor.
Build a barn.
Put the gal on the tractor.
Put the tractor in the barn.

The American dream.

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[MossRoad]

No way to live, IMHO. I will not live in a place everything has to be locked up , if I need to behind bars let it be my doing not the fear of what others might do.

My parents live behind barred windows and a high fence in a ritzy neighborhood. No way to live........

Even tweakers understand big dogs and shotguns....

When we bought our remote property back in 1989, no one lived there. No one to watch over anything. We parked our IH2500b out there for about 10 years, and on the recommendation of our farmer friends, and from their experiences of leaving equipment unattended on their farms, we took the battery and the rotor from under the distributor out every time we left.

We got a call from the county police one evening that the neighbor saw the lights on the tractor were on. They went out and the tractor lights were on and no one was around. I told them that was impossible because I had the battery. They said, yeah, well, must be aliens then, because the lights are on. They left. I went out, and the lights were off and there was no battery.

Best I can figure is someone put a battery in it, couldn't start it because of the missing rotor, the cops showed up so they hid in the woods. Cops left, they came back and took their battery, I showed up, and well..... or it was aliens.

Anyhow, Bad people have cars and you can't be everywhere all the time, especially a remote property.

 

[tacticalturnip]

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Yeah, but where is the barn?

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

What barn?

 

[2manyrocks]

The one with the hayloft.