Stolen Gates

Bagenal

Just posting to warn anyone that is offered gates by nomadic salesmen that an artic trailer load of gates were stolen from Cork recently. The stolen tractor unit and trailer used to transport the gates was seemingly found in Carlow. I got this info from another site & decided to post here in the hope that someone might have any info, if you do I'm sure the guards would like to have it.

whelan1

very interesting, lads told us last week they would be back in a few weeks with gates:eek:

blue5000

OP are they good quality gates:D? Cos if they are they'll never be got even if they are seen again........

What length are they?

Bagenal

blue5000 wrote: »

OP are they good quality gates:D? Cos if they are they'll never be got even if they are seen again........

What length are they?

I have no idea as to the quality or length of the gates, I only picked up the story on another site where the owner of the tractor unit that was stolen to transport the gates was asking people to keep an eye out for it.
Anyone buying these gates should remember that they are buying from criminals and funding their activities as well as giving them an incentive to do more of the same. Some insurance company is going to have to pay out if the gates aren't found which makes all of OUR insurance premiums go up, luckily the lorry and trailer were found more or less undamaged so perhaps there won't be an insurance payout on those.
Think before you buy, if there isn't a market for what these lads rob then they won't rob stuff, these same boyos could rob something of yours sometime,

Bagenal

whelan1 wrote: »

very interesting, lads told us last week they would be back in a few weeks with gates:eek:

If they do come back get as much info as you can and give it to the guards, taking a picture of them or their vehicle with the phone camera would be a big help i'm sure.

eddiej

Just to let you know had three galvanised 16 foot mesh gates lifted on Sunday from the fields with direct access from the road. Lads please please do not buy "bargins" you are just killin everyone else

grazeaway

eddiej wrote: »

Just to let you know had three galvanised 16 foot mesh gates lifted on Sunday from the fields with direct access from the road. Lads please please do not buy "bargins" you are just killin everyone else

have actually stopped using new gates along the road ditches. My dad had new ones lifted a few years back. neighbour saw them been taken off while he was checking sheep late one evening. rang the cops and they picked the boys up a few miles away. Thats said i have put up ones at the front of the house but have a lock on them when we are away

redzerologhlen

grazeaway wrote: »

have actually stopped using new gates along the road ditches. My dad had new ones lifted a few years back. neighbour saw them been taken off while he was checking sheep late one evening. rang the cops and they picked the boys up a few miles away. Thats said i have put up ones at the front of the house but have a lock on them when we are away

A lock will only stop an honest lad though and they wouldn't be robbing gates in the first place. A lot of gates, fertiliser and even a meal bin emptied at night in north clare over the last few weeks. It's getting ridiculous at this stage.

grazeaway

redzerologhlen wrote: »

A lock will only stop an honest lad though and they wouldn't be robbing gates in the first place. A lot of gates, fertiliser and even a meal bin emptied at night in north clare over the last few weeks. It's getting ridiculous at this stage.

yeah, but we try to make it as hard as we can for the fcukers anway. if they have to make more of an effort and make more noise then maybe they'll be easier to catch.

stealing ration from a bin is a new one. how would they get it out? father inlaw has his diesel tank in a 20ft conatiner with the electric fence hooked up to it. twas robbed from the old locked tank after a hole was drilled in the side.

redzerologhlen

grazeaway wrote: »

yeah, but we try to make it as hard as we can for the fcukers anway. if they have to make more of an effort and make more noise then maybe they'll be easier to catch.

stealing ration from a bin is a new one. how would they get it out? father inlaw has his diesel tank in a 20ft conatiner with the electric fence hooked up to it. twas robbed from the old locked tank after a hole was drilled in the side.

I know what you are saying but I was just saying if the fu**ers want to take it a lock wont stop them. They were caught on camera trying to rob electric gates into a house right on the side of a fairly busy national road, even at night a good few cars would pass and it was plain to see the camera pointing at the gates aswell, they have some neck. I dont know how they went about taking 4 ton of loose meal but they got it anyway and I very much doubt it is the usual culprits that are to blame for it either. The meal bin was only 50 yards from the side of the same national road and 2 ton of fert that was robbed was left right outside a house on the side of the same road. I know a man now that if his dog's start barking at night he will get up and fire a shot in the air in case at all someone is lurking around. I can see something like what happened with Padraig Nally coming down the line soon if all these thefts stay going on.

pakalasa

I heard of a case last year, where a few tonne of fertiliser were stolen from a farmers field. Turned out it was a local farmer with a sizeable farm that stole it.

Conor556

There is silage being lifted around here, 26 bales in one case if i remember right!

AntrimGlens

Theres a fella near me who is now staying at her majestys pleasure for a year or two who was supposed to spread a few tonne of fertilizer for his parents a year or so ago. The parents were on holiday and when they came back they saw the tracks in the field and thought the fert was spread. Six weeks later and still no grass in any of the fields they went and complained to the merchant that they bought it from but after getting a soil test done it transpired that the son had sold the fert to a neighbour and drove round the fields to show the tramlines. He was always worth of watching..!!

yellow50HX

Know of a fella who used to drop cattle off to outside farm for a local cattle dealer and would drive past another outside farm that had a bale shed. After dropping off the cattle they went to fill up the lorry with a load of bales. Got caught after a few times when fella checking fences spotted the lorry. Were lucky boys to keep their knee caps intact.

dar31

A nice splattering of bright paint across the gates, or paint one of the bars on it,
Will make it a lot harder from them to sell them on

pakalasa

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Theres a fella near me who is now staying at her majestys pleasure for a year or two who was supposed to spread a few tonne of fertilizer for his parents a year or so ago. The parents were on holiday and when they came back they saw the tracks in the field and thought the fert was spread. Six weeks later and still no grass in any of the fields they went and complained to the merchant that they bought it from but after getting a soil test done it transpired that the son had sold the fert to a neighbour and drove round the fields to show the tramlines. He was always worth of watching..!!

Have to feel especially sorry for the parents on that one.

weekendfarmer

I was hit a few times ... since made gates from 2" inch galvaninesed tubular and have then permanently attached to RSJs with 3" tubular brackets on all road side gates.