tools stolen

After recovering a lot of stolen tools earlier this year it is essential to give the police something to go on, I had just written my company name on with a marker pen and as I have a very cheap website with my phone number on it I recovered most of my tools.

 

basatrds - i never buy second hand tools because they may have been stolen. it happens to us all - put your rates up a little to cover some of the cost.

 

Sorry to hear, 'Dish

 

So sorry to read this bish . Will the insurance cover most of it?

 

Really sorry to read this.
Keep looking on fleabay / gumtree etc and you may get lucky.
Thing is, they will sell off a £200 tool for £10 just to get a drug fix.......

 

Feel really sorry for you Bish.
Which part of the country are you.

I have all my tools marked & serial numbers recorded.

 

This is where a van vault toolbox comes in handy.

But be sure its a model that uses a skeleton key that's inserted through plate steel where it engages with a mortise lock.
The opening lever protrudes from a slot and is made deliberately weak. So if forced whilst "locked" it just bends.

I've seen this concept on metal containers on building sites. What the builders do is cut the normal container doors OFF (because the design is cr@p) and fit two heavy plate steel doors which could be 10mm thick. The plate doors are inset on the frame so its impossible to lever them.
All hinges are concealed and no locks exposed. The hinges can be made from 50mm bar which is welded on the inside of the plate. Again very difficult to saw through.

Not many thieves can break through those as it involves a LOT of cutting. In fact it would be easier to just cut the side out off the container.
But that can be difficult because clever builders stack them close against walls, side by side and on top of each other or stack them with building materials making entry via sides or top very difficult.
And of course Sawing makes a LOT of noise. Which thieves don't like.

The same concept can be used on van vault tools boxes on the opening lid. Though I'm not sure many are.
Mebbe time to go to the drawing board and design and build one.

I built a large lorry toolbox once and made a flaw on the heavy lid.
It fell on my fingers once and nearly broke them. A guy we had working suffered the same fate.

 

A case for in vehicle cctv, a covert camera in rear of van, which can record to your smart phone & a vehicle recorder hidden away.

 

A lot of thieves are care free about cctv. Just pull on a balaclava.
As for alerting you, what are you going to do when you confront them?

If they don't know where you live then good stuff. Take them on if you think you can.
If they know where you live then be very careful.

 

So sad to hear this bloody parasites.

 

It's not only vans Miss P. Make sure your shed is secure & possibly alarmed. Not trying to scare you, but better safe than sorry.

 

I would be so upset if my new jigsaw and sprayer got nicked imagine a whole van being robbed I don't get how anyone could do that to someone

 

Yep sheds are a favourite haunt for thieving scallywags, my mums was broken into just 2 weeks ago, nothing taken because its full of carp., her neighbor had his mountain bike taken, but luckily it was found in a pile of stuff hidden in a hedge awaiting collection, the police also caught two little bar stewards red handed.

 

Nice to hear that they do actually catch them sometimes

 

They may be caught by the Police but the courts won't give them any meaningful punishment, probably be given community service where they can scout out fresh targets