Visited by thieves👎🏼👎🏼

lopet · February 02, 2018, 10:03:42 PM

Southside logger .... and grandma had to find somebody else to plow her driveway. Sounds like she kinda felt bad put not bad enough. ;)

Too much low life out there, they're just like parasites, can't make it on their own.

Ljohnsaw · February 02, 2018, 10:10:15 PM

I was at HD yesterday returning some extra/unused plumbing parts. One employee came swiftly running by saying two DeWalts went running out the door and he continued out into the parking lot. My clerk said it happens several times a week

I told her they should have someone outside with a shotgun...

BargeMonkey · February 02, 2018, 10:34:09 PM

Do you have a picture of what the tools / box piece looked like ? brand name ? I'm always looking on Ebay/ CL plus in a bunch of groups on FB, I'm sure if enough people look it will come up eventually.
2yrs ago this spring our shop was trashed, 5 trucks vandalized, in the end the cops couldn't do much. Yrs ago my father and the Deere mechanic changed the engine in the 440B, lacked a few things and didn't top the coolant levels up, finish the next morning, someone came that night, started the machine and stole all 4 tire chains, cooked the brand new engine that was just put in. I have cameras on all my jobs, it's honestly a huge PITA and you've got to have a CLEAR picture for the cops, huge mess to prove sometimes.

Cub · February 02, 2018, 10:48:14 PM

I had a theif visit a few weeks back. Fresh snow that day. They parked on the road and drug a stick of green scotch pine pulp and put it in their truck then grabbed a stick of green aspen pulp and put it in their truck. Was only 2 sticks of wood but it's the principle of things. Nothing I hate worse than a dirty theif!!

mike_belben · February 03, 2018, 09:06:40 AM

Where i live people steal standing trees right out of yards. Theyll lopper the power wires off at the roof and strip the entire panel and meter socket then snip under the crawlspace. Hatchet the sheetrock and strip the walls, or chain the entire inside panel to a bumper and rip it out the door. I looked at 8.2 acres with a house and some timber last week for $25k. It wont sell. Youd have to kill someone to make the thieving stop.

County lines are the meth frontier. Law enforcement is completely impotent that far from their little base. You see someone in your yard and call the law before you shoot him, they say no proof we need to see it. Whip out your phone and show the law a camera image they say well we cant arrest him because blah blah blah. Well then next time hes in my yard im gonna shoot him. "Thats your right sir, if you feel threatened shoot him."

It takes a network of bold neighbors working together to keep the trash bedded down. That took me about a year to create when i moved here. It was this guy didnt like this one and those two didnt like that one. I just chipped away at it and greased the wheels to get this network sharing information. If you werent one the meth monkeys you automatically went on my 'howdy friend' list. The monkeys saw what was going on and cut back to 10% of the former riff raff. We used to have doors kicked in on this road and car windows smashed every month or two.

They also all talk and work together to stay high and bum rides for cigarettes etc. Simple, divide and conquer. Pick the friendliest loser to chat up like you dont know hes a loser and say hey man, i think i saw that other loser creeping through your bushes 2 nights ago, i dont trust that guy. Pit them against each other and break up that unit. When one is a driver/lookout and the other two are the smash team they get a lot of stuff fast. Break up their camraderie. If theyre busy fighting each other they arent teamed up against you. Meth heads trust no one. Not even their mothers, everyone is out to get them.

Resonator · February 03, 2018, 09:23:09 AM

I live back in the woods you see, My woman and the kids and the dogs and me.
I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive, and a country boy can survive.
Country folks can survive. country folks can survive, country folks can survive!

(Hank Williams Jr. recorded 1982)

Corley5 · February 03, 2018, 09:45:02 AM

Are Ponsee tools marked with the Ponsee name or logo like Craftsman or Snap On ?

chevytaHOE5674 · February 03, 2018, 10:10:31 AM

The tools we always had weren't marked Ponsse. They are made by some European company and are decent quality I'd have to go out to the truck to see the manufacture. Come in a nice toolbox with blue lid that fits perfectly in on the tray provided...

John Mc · February 03, 2018, 11:47:09 AM

Quote from: kenfrommaine on February 02, 2018, 07:00:02 AM
Set out some game cameras. They will more then likely be back for diesel or what ever else they can carry off.

Or they'll come back for the game cameras. Someone on here once posted about putting out a cheap game camera that was visible, but took a bit of work to get to. Then he aimed his better game camera (well hidden) at the first one to catch the person stealing that.

John Mc · February 03, 2018, 11:48:57 AM

Quote from: coxy on February 02, 2018, 07:16:24 AM
get ones that don't have a light when taking a pic that was my mistake they took the cams to :

Oops. Posted my response to this on a different post on this thread by mistake. put up a cheap game camera that is visible, hide a better one aimed at the cheap one to catch them stealing it.

goose63 · February 03, 2018, 04:25:25 PM

16 years agao when i moved on the old placewas there 6 months when jim and max drove in down by the old hog has been empty for years now there is a crazy old man in his under ware standing on the porch shooting holes in the ground hay dont shoot we are lost.

So I go back to bed bought midnight the phone rings why you shooting at us first don't lie to me you had to call the operater to get my number thy were in a bar when thy called was a Friday night Monday night I knew who thy were 3 days later Icought up with little fat jimmy if any thing leaves my yard and i dont care if it's one of the cat's I'm going to bend you over and shoot you in your fat back side that story got around fast.

For a long time when I went to town people would say dont shoot the drugies know to stay away from my place

Ken · February 03, 2018, 05:24:26 PM

So sorry to hear about the theft barbender. Takes a dirty low life to steal a mans tools. I've been extremely lucky although did lose some fuel and tools a few months back.

barbender · February 03, 2018, 07:32:58 PM

Thanks for all the insights, fellas. The toolbox is gloss black and I believe it has the Ponsse logo in yellow on it. The tools, when branded, are Wurth. There is a 1/2" socket set in a black metal case with the Ponsse logo in yellow as well.

Logger RK · February 03, 2018, 08:42:09 PM

I do the bait camera trick. Also at a gate I put up at a gravel pit,people would occasionally dump stuff off. One time they left a clothes washer. I took a black marker & wrote $5o cash on it. The next day it was gone. Many stories about that gate. It did stop a 20 mile high speed chase. The runner didn't know I strung a 5/8 cable through the cheap gate. It was pretty funny to check the tracks out where the runner got out & ran,and not far down the logging road where the police dog caught up to him. Looked like the officer wasn't in to big a hurry to catch up. If the runner would've made it about 50 more feet I would've had some good pictures.

JJ · February 03, 2018, 09:19:36 PM

my trail cam only has pictures of deer and random objects (me); maybe I should move it closer to my stuff...

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Southside · February 03, 2018, 11:20:24 PM

Quote from: Resonator on February 03, 2018, 09:23:09 AM
I live back in the woods you see, My woman and the kids and the dogs and me.
I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive, and a country boy can survive.
Country folks can survive. country folks can survive, country folks can survive!

(Hank Williams Jr. recorded 1982)

And I got me a suppressor or two. Tink ----- Whump ---- and that's all folks.

starmac · February 03, 2018, 11:46:17 PM

Way too much work, unless you happen to be raising some hogs, or have a backhoe.

mike_belben · February 04, 2018, 08:44:25 AM

Romans 12:19

Gearbox · February 04, 2018, 10:39:23 AM

Southside why would you use a suppressor . Let the noise scare them . I had a guy years ago when I was building this house and living in a trailer . He drove into the yard sat in the car until the dog settled down then got out and picked up my saw . I was in the house making lunch watching . When he was half way back to his car I let one go with the 12 Ga. and told him to beat it . Never had a problem since . I had a druggee tell me he was told I shoot at people . I said when I shoot at people I hit them .

thecfarm · February 04, 2018, 10:43:07 AM

Gearbox,Shoot at one,they tell others. ;)

Hilltop366 · February 04, 2018, 10:55:08 AM

I was joking around with a police officer friend and asked if it was ok to shoot someone in the yard, she sighed and took a serious tone an said "make sure they are in the doorway and facing you" apparently running away across the drive way doesn't count as self defence.

Resonator · February 04, 2018, 12:52:20 PM

Psalm 34:7

Southside · February 04, 2018, 01:12:33 PM

Gearbox - no sense in disturbing the guinea hens, they never settle back down.

mike_belben · February 04, 2018, 01:58:06 PM

Ive shot near my troublemaker twice, didnt change him.

Took the door rod off passenger side handle of my truck and gave him a ride one day. When he realized he wasnt getting out until i let him, i changed characters and made some things clear. Now we're "pals" and the problem is solved. Hes like a new person.