My shop was just broken into and they cleaned out my high dollar cordless tools plus a welder string trimmers and a bunch of fuel. Does anyone have any ideas about securing these items to make them harder to take? Jobox? Locking suggestions? Booby traps? Good place to bury a body? Etc?
Here in the City the large framing crews use the small shipping containers. Then park the zoom boom blocking the door. Thieves just cut open the exposed side with a cut off wheel.
Nothing is really theft proof. Sure big metal box bolted down with another metal box inside but at what point does this become practical?
Do your best to make it hard to get in to begin with. Maybe a train horn for an alarm? 4 hungry dogs maybe but again is it worth the time.
In the end it’s why we have insurance.
One framing crew puts the shipping container on the zoom boom and stores it up as high as it will go. Now that might actually work.
Be a touch cautious when replacing items, criminals are starting to get a touch of the smarts.
We've has construction c-cans and job shacks broken into and all of our tools stolen then coincidently re broken into approx. a month later once they know you've replaced everything with brand new items
Now days when a thief sees a shipping container they see a gold mine. Thieves know people buy them to store their valuables. With a cutting torch they're in in no time..
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