Cublover

The 4 wheeler stealin' criminals here carry 99 cent spray cans of black. They paint mud, chrome, rubber, whatever. As long as a 'dumb' cop is looking for red, they get away!

Cublover

Call Lo-jack. They sell them for anything. Subscriber fee plus the piece. Not reall costly. (but could be priceless) Big city contractors put them on their bobcats and welders, etc.
My daughters LAPTOP had it!

ErnieS

Lo jack makes sense, but the OP was leaving the tractor at a remote site. Let's say he's gone for a week and arrives to find the tractor gone. Chances are the thief has found the lo jack or parted out the machine. Game cameras are only helpful if the can identify the thief, and as above, the tractor may be long gone. The best plan is prevention. Making it nearly impossible to move by removing wheels or even something as simple as a clutch pedal seems to me to be the best solution.
What part can you remove and replace easily that would prevent moving your tractor?

Thomas

"What part can you remove and replace easily that would prevent moving your tractor? "

With all the safety switches/devices gotta be way to rewire couple wires for no start but than again flat bed truck/trailer w/winch won't stop many.

Bryan1

Well if people really want to steal the tractor then they will do everything they can to get hold of it. Most will just think it will be an easy get but by having some sort of warning system in place just might deter them enough. How about installing a small solar system but a small backup battery, then install some IR switch's at any entrance. When the IR is tripped a message is read out on hidden speakers sounding like for instance

" I'm a retired Vet and this tractor cost me everything, about now there is a machine gun trained on you and if you don't leave in 30 seconds no-one will hear you scream" If the IR doesn't trip after 30 seconds use a solenoid to set of a few blasting caps in succession and it would be great to have a video installed to see their faces.

It wouldn't be too hard to set something of this nature up and I reckon it would deter some of the potential thieves but if they are determined then short of putting in a machine gun your tractor will be gone.......

Cheers Bryan

ErnieS

Very creative Bryan Gotta find that box of caps.
So I came to steal your tractor. I hear the recording and back off to a safe distance and wait. I see no movement and go back, this time taking a close look of my surroundings. Maybe I see the sensors or speakers, maybe not, but I climb on the tractor again and hear the same thing.
No sweat! I fire it up and drive it onto a trailer.
I still think disabling the tractor, removing an easily replaceable part so it will not move. A safety switch might make it unable to start, but I'm thinking gearshift linkage or lever with the trans left in low, or a tire removed and kept off site.
You could set up an alarm system that would ring your phone if someone tried to grab it and pipe video. You could call the police and have a decent chance of them being caught.

Bryan1

OK Ernie,
I should of gone a bit further to add if the above happens then a fail safe on the tractor would be the go. A pv powered hot seat on the tractor. A simple mat with a pressure switch that goes to a simple setup circuit to provide about 25,000 volts @ only say 10mA right in the thief's family jewels area. If there is a decent wooden beam overhead of the tractor seat there would be no doubt it would have a nice indentation of a skull in it after a would be thief tried the first time.

Afterall if no-one is around no-one will hear the scream and if the thief ends up pushin daisies after the hot seat the coyotes will have a nice feed......

Cheers Bryan

ErnieS

I don't have the problem of leaving my tractor somewhere far from me. I'd just fire one round out the window and go back to bed.

Boyd

The owner of the place I store my trucks & mowers had some of his land developed for houses. There is a sign at the entrance. Metal letters were dissapearing off of it. He setup a game camera pointing down from a utility pole and got some pictures and printed them out. He then saw them walking down the road with a dog. He stopped and struck up a really nice "get to know ya" type of conversation with one of them,,, didn't mention a thing about the sign but learned what nearby house they lived in. He kept the conversation as friendly as possible and later called the county sherrif. An officer came out and was told the story, gave him pictures etc. Officer went down to their house and was told if they were seen on the property again they would be arrested. No more disapearing letters.

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84 Case 448. 94 Toro 266-H. ?Snapper 41" RER. Wards 12-32
Case sweeper. 87Toro 117GM.?Snapper 33" RER. WH B-111
Roto-Hoe chipper shredder. Snapper 36+52"wb front halfs
Snapper 36"wb turning into a solid mount wing mower.
2 Toro 52" wb turning into pull type mower.
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hackware

one idea would be to hide a cell phone (with a camera) to call you when alarm is tripped...

built a black box for nokia phone few years ago, and newer phones should be even easier...

william...

grnspot110

One of the old James Bond movies showed a crook looking into Bond's car. here was a sticker on the window "This Car is Burglar Protected", crook hit the window with his gun butt, whole car exploded, bad guy included! He wouldn't steal your tractor again!

kitz

tie a string to clutch pedal and shotgun trigger before you leave crook pushes clutch boom and hes still there when cops arrive

ErnieS

I do like that, but it kind of defeats the purpose of keeping your tractor safe, doesn't it?

jhngardner367

Try making the handle for the loader removable,so that ,once the bucket is down,and the weight of the tractor rests on it,you can remove the handle.
If they can't move the bucket...They can't move the TRACTOR!!

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Waldershrek

Wow some of you have way to much time on your hands lol



Juyst put the bucket down, remove the key and if you're still worried chain it to a beam.

Farmer_John

im just going to add 2 cents to the pot here ,but I think a motion activated shotgun wound be pretty bad*** , to build is easy just buy a Western Safety driveway/wireless alert system item#93068( portable motion detector w/ receiver), a piece of angle iron ,a spark plug & wire, black powder, ball bearings, and a piece of 2" pipe w/cap. just weld cap to pipe, then drill & thread cap and insert spark plug, then weld all that to angle iron, next wire the wires that would normally go to the speaker and flashing L.E.D.'s on the receiver to the spark plug wire, then drill holes in the angle iron and using screws mount the whole thing to the wall next to the door at person height, then stash the sensor on the other side of the door. to load you can use the ball bearings and you can buy black powder at Walmart (at least in Salinas, Ca. you can). So when he opens the door and trips the sensor *BLAM!*

I also advise you NOT to build or configure this in this manner as this type of "motion-trap" is usually designed and used for large and dangerous predators and you have to have a depredation permit and permission from a federal trapper to even construct or have a functioning one on your property.

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Boyd

I heard on the radio of a guy who had his house broken into several times. He setup a shotgun to hit the next thief to come into the same door that had been used to gain entrance by a theif. Well a theif broke in and was killed by the booby trap. It went to trial and he went to prison. I would not be setting up a shotgun booby trap.

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79 Case 448. 95 Toro 266-H. ?Snapper 41" RER. Scotts 4ws.
84 Case 448. 94 Toro 266-H. ?Snapper 41" RER. Wards 12-32
Case sweeper. 87Toro 117GM.?Snapper 33" RER. WH B-111
Roto-Hoe chipper shredder. Snapper 36+52"wb front halfs
Snapper 36"wb turning into a solid mount wing mower.
2 Toro 52" wb turning into pull type mower.
Enthusiast of all Noma built 4ws tractors and all brands of pull type mowers.

pogobill

Haven't heard from "Virginian" for a while. Hopefully he's busy working his property with his tractor between pulling and replacing wheels, rather than spending time running from the law!