stolen equipment

[Cougar123]

I am just wondering, how do you prevent equipment from being stolen out of your trailor, because where i live they dont even lock down their equipment,

[HLC33]

I resently had a string trimmer stolen out of my trailer. In the year i've been mowing I never had a problem or thought to secure my equipment until now. It sure hurt when I had to spend most of the days earnings for a new trimmer. I now keep all small tools secured in the back of my truck and larger equipment cable locked on the trailer while mowing. It takes me a few extra minuites at each job but I think it's worth it.

[jimslawnservice1]

A hungry pitbull.
Or park yor trailer with the large door up against a wall or pole. Put a steel bar and a couple of hangers on the inside of the side door (if equipped). Also a great deterrent is a battery operated motion sensing light inside or outside of the trailer (available at any home improvment center) If you chain or cable things inside the trailer it will help, however I have seen them take your whole rack too.

[Stephen M.]

I've not had a problem, although it does cross my mind alot. I've had more shop tools disappear due to employee theft; and I could probably equip several shops with mechanic tools judging from all the replacements I've purchased thru the years.

The one articulating hedge trimmer I "lost" was taken from my shop by a disguntled employee and sold. I was visiting local repair shops giving the discription of it and telling shop owners to watch for the serial number and was heard by a customer standing in the shop. Later that day, it appeared on one of the larger jobsites by the woodpile. I had walked the property several times the previous 2 weeks, so I know it wasn't just left behind from sloppy work habits! The fact that it just appeared at a commercial jobsite was very telling.

[}OEM{]

We used to tie our blowers down with plastic coated steel cable (like a bike lock) and lock them. The trimmer traps we had would lock. I had a blower stolen while servicing a condo complex. I went around the front side of the building for no more than a minute and a half and someone snatched it. I never saw them and never got the blower back. i don't remember being that mad in years. %*#&! Theives

[Maddog]

Here in our area whole trailers of equipment have been swiped.

When I am out on the job we lock everything down with the trimmer trap and cbles with locks. As far as the bigger stuff on the trailer you can just lock the gate of the trailer. I don't lock down the gas cans, but then we don't carry too much gas with us just some 2 stroke gas and one 1 1/2 gallon can of regular gas.

When the trailer is off the truck and parked I put a lock thru the trailer hitch.

You need to try to secure your equipment as much as possible but if some realy wans your stuff they will find a way of getting.