Another chipper gone!!

[geoff]

The b******* will follow a chip truck with chipper and hit you on a later date. Nicking your gear is their job and some are bloody good at it.

 

They will,I always use a bit of savvy on the way home,often employing tactics to ensure I have not got a tail.

[treequip]

so sorry to hear someone else has been hit

 

There is just so much of this about at the moment

Our yard is on a farm and you have to pass both farm houses (full of angry farmers with shotguns!) to get to our yard. but....... somehow I still doubt its enough, if they want it, they'll get it. Best form of security these days is bloody good insurance.

 

 

Based on what?

 

The fact that you know about these many thefts is down to the internet, once upon a long time ago you would have heard several weeks after the fact the somebody (local) was robbed but back then I never heard of anyone outside a 50 mile radius.

 

These days the internet tells me that a chipper in London was stolen before it got to the end of the road.

[TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX]

the people that steal this stuff visit this site !

[Brett]

Based on what?

 

The fact that you know about these many thefts is down to the internet, once upon a long time ago you would have heard several weeks after the fact the somebody (local) was robbed but back then I never heard of anyone outside a 50 mile radius.

 

These days the internet tells me that a chipper in London was stolen before it got to the end of the road.

 

I was on the phone about insurance the other day and the guy on the phone said his company deal with, on average, 1 chipper theft per week. thats just one company. scared the crap out of me.

[Scott]

Gypos mate their ur first call... Hang outside their camp and its prob sat there doin nowt... Vermin... The old bill r proper useless go mooching yourself

 

 

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[DN22 Gardening]

Only 5 miles from gainsbro'

one of the EA guys rang me to let me know it had gone..

Sleeping VERY lightly ATM

[doobin]

so sorry to hear someone else has been hit

 

There is just so much of this about at the moment

Our yard is on a farm and you have to pass both farm houses (full of angry farmers with shotguns!) to get to our yard. but....... somehow I still doubt its enough, if they want it, they'll get it. Best form of security these days is bloody good insurance.

 

Only good until your hit, then it gets too expensive. Best security is to think clever, simple ideas that make it too much hassle so they go for an easier target.

 

I have remote alarms and trackers. Locked gates and floodlights up high in cages- they hate light as it alerts all and sundry to something going on.

 

If you have a tracker fitted get a vibration sensor fitted as well to give you early warning of them crawling over it. Never understood all the companies pushing trackers as the soloution to all theft- by the time it exits the yard it's too late as its on a trailer and moving fast. Prevention is better than a somewhat unpredicatable cure.

 

HTH