Camper left on farm

irishguy19772

Few thefts around this place recently.
Have a camper bought and left on farmyard.

Don't have space indoors for it until shed is built.

I was thinking of leaving a tractor in front of it as a deterrent for being stolen. Had thought of those removable metal posts that can be fitted but figured something like a tractor would be as handy.

Only asking incase there is something as easy that people use - big enough that thieves can't move but mobile enough that can be moved quickly by owner.


Thanks for any advice.

Grueller

irishguy19772 wrote: »

Few thefts around this place recently.
Have a camper bought and left on farmyard.

Don't have space indoors for it until shed is built.

I was thinking of leaving a tractor in front of it as a deterrent for being stolen. Had thought of those removable metal posts that can be fitted but figured something like a tractor would be as handy.

Only asking incase there is something as easy that people use - big enough that thieves can't move but mobile enough that can be moved quickly by owner.


Thanks for any advice.

I have a few concrete bollards, they weigh 800kgs. They came from an old compound that roadbridge had when doing the local town bypass here. Lift them with the front loader in a minute but a thief wouldn't have a hope.

Charolois 19

My drive is fair narrow so I park trailers at the very end, have a van there not used, I pull in front put full lock on and lock the wheel so it can't be pushed out of way easily, it will just turn into a wall or a ditch and block all up, is it a camper or caravan, have you considered pulling fuses for fuel pump/starter ect, I know it might not stop them if there determined but might just stop a chancer

French Toast

irishguy19772 wrote: »

Only asking incase there is something as easy that people use - big enough that thieves can't move but mobile enough that can be moved quickly by owner.

A few bales of silage could be handy.

Jb1989

irishguy19772 wrote: »

Few thefts around this place recently.
Have a camper bought and left on farmyard.

Don't have space indoors for it until shed is built.

I was thinking of leaving a tractor in front of it as a deterrent for being stolen. Had thought of those removable metal posts that can be fitted but figured something like a tractor would be as handy.

Only asking incase there is something as easy that people use - big enough that thieves can't move but mobile enough that can be moved quickly by owner.


Thanks for any advice.

Something without an engine preferably.
Tractor could end up stolen.

Nekarsulm

Take two wheels off it.
Good heavy chain around clutch pedal and through the steering wheel, with a quality lock.

grassroot1

irishguy19772 wrote: »

Few thefts around this place recently.
Have a camper bought and left on farmyard.

Don't have space indoors for it until shed is built.

I was thinking of leaving a tractor in front of it as a deterrent for being stolen. Had thought of those removable metal posts that can be fitted but figured something like a tractor would be as handy.

Only asking incase there is something as easy that people use - big enough that thieves can't move but mobile enough that can be moved quickly by owner.


Thanks for any advice.

Take the wheels off it

Jb1989

grassroot1 wrote: »

Take the wheels off it

You and nek must have served your time round ballymun.

lakill Farm

Grueller wrote: »

I have a few concrete bollards, they weigh 800kgs. They came from an old compound that roadbridge had when doing the local town bypass here. Lift them with the front loader in a minute but a thief wouldn't have a hope.

Same here. Often known as "Lego Blocks"


Have one here with a 50MM ball bolted to it and trailer locked to it and revered back in .


About 80/100 euro

mayota

lakill Farm wrote: »

Same here. Often known as "Lego Blocks"


Have one here with a 50MM ball bolted to it and trailer locked to it and revered back in .


About 80/100 euro

Thinking hat on there.

Donald Trump

Grueller wrote: »

I have a few concrete bollards, they weigh 800kgs. They came from an old compound that roadbridge had when doing the local town bypass here. Lift them with the front loader in a minute but a thief wouldn't have a hope.

Well unless you leave the tractor lying around and the thief can also drive one!

J.O. Farmer

Donald Trump wrote: »

Well unless you leave the tractor lying around and the thief can also drive one!

You couldn't be up to them, they'd probably bring the bollard too.

I think it happened in Ballyhaise college the thieves took an agitator out of a slurry tank hooked off the agitator and hooked on the diet feeder instead when they were bringing a tractor.

Nekarsulm

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

You couldn't be up to them, they'd probably bring the bollard too.

I think it happened in Ballyhaise college the thieves took an agitator out of a slurry tank hooked off the agitator and hooked on the diet feeder instead when they were bringing a tractor.

Half a dozen students making their clandestine way home from the local bar one night had the bright idea of taking a restored horse plough off its plinth in the college yard.
A good hawser of a rope was found, and with one man on the handles, the rest pulled it and ploughed the farm managers lawn in dead silence, right under his bedroom window.....

Grueller

lakill Farm wrote: »

Same here. Often known as "Lego Blocks"


Have one here with a 50MM ball bolted to it and trailer locked to it and revered back in .


About 80/100 euro

That's them. I got them for free from the father in law. He worked on the bypass and was around til the end cleaning up the compound. Cleaning out more accurately.

Donald Trump

Grueller wrote: »

That's them. I got them for free from the father in law. He worked on the bypass and was around til the end cleaning up the compound. Cleaning out more accurately.

A likely story.


I'd say some poor fella had been using them to secure his caravan and your father in law lifted the blocks as well as the caravan

Grueller

Donald Trump wrote: »

A likely story.


I'd say some poor fella had been using them to secure his caravan and your father in law lifted the blocks as well as the caravan

Ha. I put up a shed out of the amount of RSJ that he got out of that compound. I also got 4 of the piles that they use to construct piers in the sea. I made legs for them.and use them as troughs. Biggest problem is they weigh a pile and you need the loader to move them.