Securing your tractor

[ctpres]

I am in security/burglar alarm business. Often need to protect big objects in harsh enviroments, like outdoors. If you are handy with elec. look for something called a magnetic pull apart. It is basically a plastic socket with internal magnet and a plug with built in switch and 2 or 3 ft cord. With plug in socket the switch is closed and when unplugged or the wire is cut the switch/circuit is open. You don't need an alarm. You can use tractor power thru the switch to drive a low current relay which can drive high power -110volt stuff. Think about how the a'cond works except the thermostat is the plug in switch and wire. Even works if they disconnect the battery to steal it.

 

[Soundguy]

I havn't met a safety switch that couldn't be defeated with a pair of dykes or a paperclip.... the cruel reality is that if you are not there to guard it.. and somebody wants it.. they will get it. Fancy lockouts or not. I've bought auction tractors, and cut every wire and electric device off of it and purchased / installed a factory wire harness and new electricals.... thief could do the same.. so what if he has to spend 1k$ to get a 33k$ tractor right?

Soundguy

 

[3RRL]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( .... thief could do the same.. so what if he has to spend 1k$ to get a 33k$ tractor right?)</font>

That same guy probably wouldn't spend the $1000. He'd probably steal that stuff too!

 

[1948berg]

This is the fuel lock on my Massey Ferguson. Can be put anywhere in the fuel line.

 

[1948berg]

one more

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Park 'em in a safe place! Musta found a nice safe place for mine. In fact, it's so safe, no one has bothered the tractors OR the big, snarling German Shepard that sleeps in the same building.

 

[flwiii]

SoundGuy

What is a smoke wrench? Never heard of one.

 

[ErnieInTucson]

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What is a smoke wrench?
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I suspect the author was referring to an oxygen-acetylene torch -- those rigs we used to use a lot before plasma cutters and MIG welders became more prevalent.

 

[HOGAN]

Same as a gas hatchet......


J.M.H.

 

[texredneck]

yes the smoke wrech, however, shop I was working at thought they had it figured out. They had the bottles out and the torches were all locked up. Well this was no issue. They brought a small genny/arc welder and burned the locks off with 5P rods and presumably cranking the heat all the way up. Its amazing how quick you can cut a lock this way. After seeing that I was truely convinced you cant be totally secure. Just works to keep honest folk out

 

[PapaPerk]

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locked inside a building would be best, but again overkill (and my building is full of other stuff /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
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Ahh!!! Its outside?! In the rain? Poor tractor! Get rid of some stuff and put it inside. That's my suggestion. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Good for the tractor and bad for the theives.

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( This is the fuel lock on my Massey Ferguson. Can be put anywhere in the fuel line. )</font>

Nice. That should be about a good solid 3 minutes of protection against the guy that came out to get your tractor.. especially if he is carrying a flat blade screwdriver and a hose barb.. so he can remov ethe ful line and splice around it. Guess if he was in a hurry, a pair of dykes and a piece of copper tubing would be a? 30 second bypass? just enough to get it on the trailer and safely away so that he could remove the fuel block and either get it on a boat south.. or into the closest county auction..e tc.

For the casual guy walking by who hadn't left his house planning on stealing your tractor, might prove pretty good.. depending on the size of copper pipe his crackpipe was made out of.. or if he caried a standard cutting tool.. like.. oh.. a razor blade.. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Soundguy

Soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Same as a gas hatchet......
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Yep.. gas axe, smoke axe, smoke wrench.. hot wrench, blue rench.. etc..

Soundguy

 

[john_bud]

Well, I don't have any thing like this, but....now that my synapses are snapping, how about this idea?

Get a recording of a pump shotgun chambering a round and some "hillbilly types" whispering about getting a thief, hide a series of waterproof speakers in the woods and trip it with a motion detector on the tractor.

Imagine something like this...

Thief gets to tractor, starts dinking around trying to start it or hook up a chain to drag it. The motion detector, "detects" him. The speakers in the woods play sticks breaking, and hillbillies whispering, "Be quiet Billy Bob!" , "I think that SOB is in by the tractors, Clem", "Hand me that shoot'n iron, Billy Bob" ---Sound of the shotgun chambering a round ---

Yeah, I think that would work, at least once!

jb

 

[Soundguy]

I think the sound of the shotgun chambering would be way more effective than a dog barking sound.. etc..

Soundguy

 

[flusher]

In the steel-walled/framed garage, steel door with deadbolt lock.

Tractor chained to piece of U-shaped #5 rebar embedded in the 6" thick concrete floor. Big thick chain, bullet-proof lock.

Won't prevent the tractor from being boosted by the dedicated thief who needs his meth fix real bad.

But will be sufficient proof to my insurance company that I took more than reasonable precautions against theft so there's no fuzz on my claim.