What do you do to prevent your saws being stolen??

[MechanicMatt]

I didn't bother to read all the responses but heres mine, I don't live in the ghetto. I live in a nice neighbor hood. A bit redneckish, but hey thats the way I like it. Can hear the neighbor kids shooting there 22's and shotguns over by the lake. We all know we all have guns and hunt. And we all have a respect for one another. Only one time I had to show the teen boys I was a little crazy, but that was deserved. Had to let them know not to do burn outs in the residential area, not where my kids play. Take that fun stuff someplace else, you know don't $hit where you sleep speech. But #1 is to pick a nice place to live.

 

[Rokon]

"What do you do to prevent your saws from being stolen?"

Warm up my other saws...

 

[casual cutter]

You see, now that makes just too much sense... yet is not the case here in Canada either. You hurt the criminal and the crown attorney uses him as a witness against you.
Socialist countries breed stupidity. Makes me crazy.

I don't think it's completely fair to compare the Canadian Criminal Code with the laws of Denmark.

I mean, we are permitted to make citizens arrests using as much force as necessary to hold a thief. We are permitted to stop unlawful entry into our dwellings using as much force as necessary. We are permitted to protect ourselves against grievous bodily harm or death using as much force as necessary, even if it means relying on the last resort being in the form of a 12 gauge shotgun blast propelling a 3" Magnum load of buckshot.

It's always a tough balance, and I know the justice system is far from perfect, but I also believe that it is wrong for one individual to become Judge, Jury and Executioner should some kid steal a lawn ornament from their lawn.

As a side note, I'm doing a terrible job of keeping on topic here!

 

[zogger]

You leave obvious crap for them to steal, while the good stuff is really hidden.

Example, in your shed, old lawnmower that looks good but is busted, some other tools, rusty rakes and shovels,etc, garage sale cheap junk. All the good stuff is under the floor in a hole, with like some junk boards over the hole and an old drum of cranckcase waste oil over the board. Or a pile of busted bricks, anything crappy, heavy and normal looking, but not worth stealing or moving. They will not think anything is under the drain oil drum or other pile of stuff, and will just steal the junk. If it is known in your area you have saws, leave a couple cheap busted saws for them to steal. Better than the good runners. Non running engines, old bent bars, clapped out chains on them, but they look like saws.

Ya, you have to spend ten minutes moving your camoflauge when you get your good tools out..meh, so what.

I wouldnt trust chains and locks, easily beaten, anyone can buy bolt cutters, same with dogs and hardened criminals. My boss lost three expensive big guard dogs in a row at his shop, the thieves just shot them. He stopped buying dogs. Went to much harder to defeat steel doors and door jams.

 

[zogger]

I keep them cabled to the workbench posts, on a shelf all by themselves, and padlocked. I hide the boltcutters and there are no windows in my basement. Maybe it will frustrate them enough.

The problem in my development lately has been backpack thieves. They are young people and walk around with a back pack as though they are heading for school. Then they kick in a back door and take anything that is small enough to fit in a backpack, and go walking on down the street. They eventually got caught. Not too worried about them packing out a chainsaw, but they could always return later if they saw the equipment I guess.

I used to live in another part of town that had a similar problem. No lie, they broke in on a woman who competed in axe and hatchet throwing. One of the idiots jumped out a second story window trying to get away from her when she came after him with a hatchet. He broke his ankle when he landed. Heck of a lot better than what she was about to do to him. I think the other one just surrendered at that point.

HAHAHAHAHA! Man, I would have liked to have seen that!

 

[saw dog]

Buy Huskies

 

[stihlavarna]

Have never locked anything up. I live in Canada.

I wish I could say the same :frown:

 

[bucknfeller]

You say dogs... We have big problems with esteuropian gangs braking in and steal everything they see. If you have a big dog, they just kill it!
And guns, well... They are not allowed outside the police and army here in Denmark. And if you catch a thief and hit him, you will go to prison for violence and the thief will go free!!
You my probably not understand it, but that is the law here in Denmark... No wonder we have so many burglaries here!!

The chain around the saws would actually not be such a bad idea. Maby the way to go.

Please don't tell me that the gangs would shoot a dog? In a "gun free country"?? That would be against the law right? So that means the only ones who don't have guns in a gun free country are the law abiding citizens, who are now defenseless. I can think of another place where that is about to happen...

As far as protecting your saws, chains, locks, and all the obvious stuff apply. A small dog with good ears is priceless. I find them just as, if not more effective than a big aggressive dog. I always leave a few things around the shop doors that would be knocked over if someone forced entry. My dogs don't miss a trick. I wouldn't put them in harms way, but when they bark at night, out comes the artillary. In your case, I'd consider some boobie traps!

 

[naturelover]

It's hard to believe that we are going to become a "gun free" country; everyone buying up all these guns cause "Obama's gonna take them all".

After all that has happened, we will be lucky to even get stricter background checks passed, much less a ban on any sort of guns.

Shame that everyone's dug in so deep that even tragedies like what happened at SHES can't open up some sort of rational discussions on assault weapons.

I'd like to believe there's an answer somewhere in all of this, but maybe not.

BTW, insurance is probably the best as homeowners insurance should cover it, least it did in my case.



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