Stolen junk

[pennwalk]

Somebody dropped by the barn Friday night and made off with half of my scrap pile. I feel two ways about it. If they had gotten it all I would have almost been happy to have had the mess cleaned up. On the other hand I'm wondering what they will come back for next. So I was thinking how nice it would be to have a camera on the barn but I am cheap so I was wondering if a dummy camera would do any good. What is your experience?

Chris

 

[Jstpssng]

Somebody dropped by the barn Friday night and made off with half of my scrap pile. I feel two ways about it. If they had gotten it all I would have almost been happy to have had the mess cleaned up. On the other hand I'm wondering what they will come back for next. So I was thinking how nice it would be to have a camera on the barn but I am cheap so I was wondering if a dummy camera would do any good. What is your experience?

Chris

That's a common problem these days. On one hand it's nice to see some of those old cars, refridgerators, etc disappear; on the other hand a lot of stuff is being taken by people who didn't own it... sometimes it wasn't junk until it was stolen. One of our contractors almost lost the radiator from his chipper; it would have netted a couple hundredat the scrap yard, but cost him $28000 to replace.

I'd contact the local LEO, and do wht it takes to try to catch them. Once they take all your scrap, who's to say your tractor or implements won't be next?

 

[jonyyuma]

My working bud here, discovered someone was removing his radiator from his dozer this week-end..Might be pretty sore if i found them working on wrecking out any of my stuff?

 

[jimmyj]

I'd call the law for sure. Once they've been there 1 time they'll be back for the rest of the pile.

Don't know what to say about the dummy camera. I'd say the real thing or nothing personally.

You could get rid of the rest of the pile yourself to take the temptation away from them.

 

[LD1]

definatally call the law. And to the best of your recollection, list ALL the items taken. The then pass this on to the scrapyards. You have to show an Id at legitimate scrap yards these days, so if someone shows up with what you list, they will get a name.

Scrap prices are through the roof. These guys are lowly theifs and need to be stopped.

 

[Taylortractornut]

This pees me off badly. We have a large scrap yard in Corinth and mot take their stuff there. THe copper and aluminum you have to have a DL and tag number. On the scrap you take a number weigh in and un load at the grinder. Then weigh out and give theym your DL. THin is the ditsy girls in the office down know a pile of tin from a 20K seed drill. Another thing is the direct grinding makes it attractive to their haulers to get rid of evidence. Stuff goes in and it comes out in black metal chips. I have a friend that was in Iraq with the Army. When he went in he had a business on the side that Did NRCS sub contract work like drilling, and lime spreading. He had lockedi t all be hind a gate and gone to Iraq. When he got back he topped by his place and his JD drill, 89 IH spreader truck, large disk, Pallet forks ,hay spear, Brush hog, backhoe buckets, cultipacker and a few other items came up gone. Even got his gate and the heavy steel door on his shed. And the unloading auger and tube off his combine.


The signs looked like tey had just been in a few days earlier. We went to the scrap yard and ask to walk around. THey said no so we just got in the weigh in line and drove in anyway. We asked te ground men and they didnt know what we were talking about. We found the lid with his machines ID number and business logo on it from the drill. He got the law out there and they found the spreader trucks spreader bed in chunks of stainless but no truck. Both units looked like new THe drill was older a mid 90s model but looked new, The spreader truck and a towed spreader buggy both looked new to. We found the pallet forks they were about to modify them to their machine.

Every day I have some one wanting to buy my scap/ materials pile. i have 3 to 4 thousand pounds of aluminum sheet scraps in dumpsters I have great offers of 4 cents a pound from folks. I tell those that ask me THat I dont see any scrap.

 

[Thomas]

If those knotheads are that brave I doubt any camera will do much good...good chance that will be stolen.

Call the police let them know,label piece of iron etc. w/info inform junk yard,you just might catch them or help another.

 

[pennwalk]

My Sister in law owns the farmhouse out there. She is renovating it and plans to move in there soon. When she heard she said she was calling the Law. I figured it was a lost cause. Around here a lot of the towns have done away with their police forces and gone to regional forces. They are stretched pretty thin. It's not like the old days when the local cop knew everybody. She is thinking about a real security system. I may put up a dummy just for the fun of it. I'm thinking of a sign that says "smile you are on the internet". I think there is a spare motion detecting light in the basement I can put up. It would be handy when I work late. The scrap is going to be pretty hard to identify. It is bits and pieces I have collected around the barn and pieces of an old maneurer spreader I was breaking up. If I have to lock up scrap I might as well throw it in the gulley and forget about it. Erosion control:thumbsup:

Chris

 

[MotorSeven]

For your dummy camera. Pick up a red led diode and wire it to a AA. Drill a hole someplace in the light fixture so you can see the led. It will run for months off that one little battery.

I used to modify all my daughters halloween props this way....everything had creepy red led eyes.

 

[TripleR]

My Sister in law owns the farmhouse out there. She is renovating it and plans to move in there soon. When she heard she said she was calling the Law. I figured it was a lost cause. Around here a lot of the towns have done away with their police forces and gone to regional forces. They are stretched pretty thin. It's not like the old days when the local cop knew everybody. She is thinking about a real security system. I may put up a dummy just for the fun of it. I'm thinking of a sign that says "smile you are on the internet". I think there is a spare motion detecting light in the basement I can put up. It would be handy when I work late. The scrap is going to be pretty hard to identify. It is bits and pieces I have collected around the barn and pieces of an old maneurer spreader I was breaking up. If I have to lock up scrap I might as well throw it in the gulley and forget about it. Erosion control:thumbsup:

Chris

For years we have had problems with people dumping trash in one of our drainage ditch/gullies. I passed by there a few weeks ago and now people are actually dragging it out.:laughing: