I think I remember you posting about your dealings with those kids, Chris /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Cable... that's a good idea. I know it has to be just right for bolt cutters to go through on the smaller stuff (wrapped with tape, stretched taught).
So far I've called a contractor's supply house, they said that you can cut through grade 70 as easy as any of them, but are checking into stainless chain for me (in small quantities) and if there is a rating or diameter where your typical hardware store bolt cutters can't cut through it.
I also called a locksmith, but got the guy's wife out of bed I think /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. I'm supposed to call back at 9:30 when she's downstairs in the store. She said they have chains and locks that are supposed to be hard to cut through in different degrees. So we'll see what happens there.
Out of sight out of mind. That's pretty hard to do in my layout. I'm close to the RR tracks, so wheelers are going up and down the path next to them all day long. You can pretty much scan my whole back area from the tracks and they even get off once in a while and cut through my neighbor's and mine's property for a change I guess. The pole barn is just too far away from my house no matter how I fortified it. They don't bother the tractors, but a Raptor 700r.....
Last night I took a section of fence off the area adjoining my house and parked it in there. It would only need removed again to roll it out, but I'm hoping that is where the chain and lock make things harder than they're worth. That and my dogs a few feet away on the other side of a window. It's out of sight of the rode there anyway.
I'll let you guys know what I come up with that would at least slow down the typical joy riding kids just in case anyone else needs to lock something up outside.
