keeping tractor from being stolen

[Gfranklin]

Speaking of illusion, on the news last night was a blurb about how most thermostats in offices are not hooked up. They are there to instill a sense of employee control and comfort. My cubicle is beside the thermostat and I have seen the other office workers come by all day long and adjust that thermostat and then feel fine. A long time ago, due to fatigue, I quit telling them that so and so had just adjusted it. It makes me laugh now because I always thought the heating system was being adjusted way too much for it to work. Now I know the real story.

I knew a guy once that had two pieces of chain hooked together with a lock and he would throw it around anything if he was going to leave it unattended. He never locked the loose ends. He would walk up to it, insert his imaginary key for the benefit of an viewers, and "unlock" it.

Greg

 

[Trev]

<font color=blue> put a pc of wood under seat so switch
is open.</font color=blue>

I'm amazed at how easy my JD4300 is to start. You can have it sitting there with the brakes off, the gears in neutral, no weight on the seat, and just turn the key and it fires up. And I gather the keys are not all that unique.. there are only a few, and if you have the right one, you're set to go. Maybe I should thing more or insurance than of prevention of theft?

 

[cwave]

Here's a Large Case-IH available for the taking at the Pennsylvania AG Progress Days - How many keys are left in the equipment at these shows? Maybe camera's and parking equipment close together will stop theft.

 

[Hydraman]

Speaking of illusion and our imagination---just let you'uns let your imaginations run on this one--I posted it once before on another thread. Black lab--pit bull-- blue heeler cross.
Whaddya think????

 

[bgott]

That's got to be one ugly dog.

 

[Hydraman]

Right on--- but NOOOOOOOOBODY bothers my tractor, either!!!!!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Soundguy]

I've got one of those sign that shows a picture of a dog then says: I can make it to the fence in a second and a half...can you?

Dogs are great deterants for the casual opportunity thief.

For instance, our neighborhood was hit a few months ago two nights in a row by ( presumable kids or teens ), and I for some dum reason lef the front gat open to the area around the house, so they got a set of PA speakers from my wifes van she left the back unlocked. Luckilly the dogs were loose in the back pasture cause if they would have gotten into the barn, there was much more stuff to get.

All in all I guess I was lucky.. only a couple hundered in theft.. and no damage.. some of the neighbors got hit a bit more... except the guy that REMEMBERED to close his front gate so his rotties had the complete run of his property.

Soundguy

 

[Taylortractornut]

We have a huge mop of dogs here and other animals, only had 2 things stolen from the place since i was little. Plus were always in a different car so most folks dont know whos here or not. My road is dead ended now and only the local hunting club is down there but we do get suspicious folks that come down here. Im off in the winter so i stay in the shop mostly while my neighbors are at work and an unrecognizable car comes over the hill in a minute ill go and make sure there not at the neighbors.
But usually th 10 dogs ranging from my 140 pound white German Shepard to curly mut or viscious fiests most folks with intenions of theft stay away. Anyone my dogs dont trust or like i dont let them hang around long. We have 4 acres aross the street from my house where my shop is and it goes around another lot. Weve got a 9500 volt electric fence to keep our goats in. Dad and I had been down there maintaining the drive way ad decided to lun hook from his carryall and go get the box blade. While dad was gone it started to thunder so i put the backhoe up and forggot dads new Sthil saw layin there. We have one old man that walks the roads and steals any thing he can get his hands on. Our other nieghbor called us saying that the old man was lookin at our tools and was about to climb over the fence, when we got there the man was floppin around and had already dumped his bladder contents. He doesnt walk down that way any more but it was a wake up call about leaving stuff down there like that even for just a minute.

 

[gmason]

A little off topic, but a funny story just the same. Recently we had a large ice storm that knock power out in some places for a week. My mother-in-law told this story about a neighbor.

One evening, he's sitting in his living room watching tv in a bathrobe and slippers with the generator running just outside his garage. He notices his lights and tv blink, then go off, but he can still hear the generator running. So he gets up to investigate and when he goes out to his garage he sees his generator, still running, going down the road in the back of a pickup truck/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif. But because he wasn't dressed he couldn't go after them.

I think the moral of this story is thieves mostly steal something based on opportunity and not so much as careful planning.


gary