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Thanks for that....appreciated.
As soon as I saw your pic the scenario of no permit hit me. I have easements on my block which make sheds/garages difficult. I suppose square wooden wheels are still wheels provided they are attached to an axle.........and base boards are merely stone deflectors;)
I will end up excavating an 18 inch deep rebate for the wheels when I Pop it next to the shed it currently sits in so it is still movable if I need to and lower to the ground, I use packing sand a bit on the block as I work with Dogs and its easier for Bio control but it also stops grass growing under things and drains well too.
The other option im going to use is this mob, All Aussie, very smart and suitable for use over easements plus it can be enclosed and im thinking one of these over the Van with room to spare and another down the block a bit for car parking.
DIY, easy enough to set up and movable plus their Vic distributor Darren is a good bloke.
https://www.facebook.com/portablesheds/?fref=nf
PPPPPPsssssssttttttt..... Anything towable is the most unsecurable thing known to man. You have to find a way of chaining them down so they can't be towed away.Quote:
Originally Posted by tony66_au
Everything I've come up with to prevent my caravan and trailers being stolen..... I know I readily circumvent in about 15seconds with a cordless angle grinder with 1mm cutting blade installed.... same deal with a cordless saber saw. Angle grinders eat through padlocks and all sort of toughened metal like melted butter.
I've got hitch locks and chains holding my stuff down. Rather than 15 seconds to cut through the hitch lock... it'll now be 30seconds to cut through both hitchlock then chain.
The only slightly more secure way I can think of it locking them in the shed .... or having a dissabled car (that doesn't ahve wheels so it just can't be pushed out the way) trapping the trailer/caravan in...... Yes, I know, anyone that turns up with probably have something big tow with ... so it will take them 5 minutes rather than 30 seconds. 4:30seconds to snatch/winch the dissabled car out of the way and 30 seconds to cut through the chains.... sigh....
I haven't come up with a sway of securing anything "towable" yet. Any sort of tracker needs to be powered (or charged up every few days)..... if you find a caravan or trailer plugs into a power supply, the first thing anyone stealing it would do is find the tracker and destroy it (why else would it be plugged in).
seeya,
Shane L
Depends on where you live I guess,
I have Digital CCTV, lockable front gates, Dogs etc plus towing a huge weird looking Van would draw plenty of attention plus it would be a matter of them having the right hitch setup and 10 or so minutes to get the thing out of where its going to be parked.
Add to the equation that the house is rarely if ever empty for more than 5 minutes and my neighbours on one side would be pretty formidable foes not to mention My wifes particular skill set and I suspect we will be just fine.
Its more the druggie Snatch and grab BS that annoys me and they know better than to set foot on the place.
I work on the principle that Locks only deter honest people.
Shane lives somewhere around the Rat. Sounds pretty bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by tony66_au
I have locked gates and there is a friendly young bloke (and his girl) living next door, 30 metres from my shed, who has 2 staffys and a pig dog and a few guns and tatts. :D
Every time I buy something exxy I get really paranoid about theft, but after 5 years it's nada.
Lucky DL
Good neighbours are hard to find, I love mine.
Mirboo North isnt a bad area and living in town now has its perks but someone is almost always home and 6 Cameras cover every corner inside the boundary day or night, That and all the kids know me or know of me and as we run a small biz from home theres always someone coming or going so the opportunity would be slim to none.
Last time someone came in for a snoop they spotted 2 of the obvious cameras and suddenly got real shy and buggered off lol, let him know by asking if he wanted to see me or my wife and he looked like id stuck him with a blade and made an excuse he was looking for his dog.
The problem these days are mainly drug related and crimes of opportunity so if you make it difficult or challenging they will usually go elsewhere in my experience.
There are also a few signs lol
"Trespassers will be shot
Survivors will be shot again"
and
"Due to the recent increases in the price of Ammo We will no longer be firing warning shots"
Next time I find myself with $1500 spare though im buying remote gate kits.
There is a group of kids in Ballarat at the moment stealing and burning cars pretty much every night.... A v8 land rover they'd take in seconds... They generally break into the house to take the keys though.Quote:
Originally Posted by tony66_au
I did catch a couple last year under my carport in the middle of the night.... None have been back since. They did almost get my old range though ...... As she hurtled across the paddoc at full song towards them .... I had no idea people could get through a barb wire fence so quickly :o
My wife runs to ring the police, but I have a more direct approach that I reckon is far more effective.... that is ... mess with my stuff, and you better hope like hell I'm not there.
I reckon most trailers and caravans would be stolen by opportunist theives... so the simple hitch lock and chains will stop them ... they'll just pinch the next one that is unsecured.
It's really all upto the owner to try and prevent this stuff. A rental place we lived at quite a few years back had a very exotic offroad 4wd camper trailer stolen .... Amazingly he actually found it in somoenes backyard the following day. The fool rang the police.... They refused to enter the premises as they couldn't prove it was his as the numberplate had been removed. They couldn't go in. I think they had to get approval to enter the premises ... it took several days and the trailer was long gone.
Who the hell would ring the police. I'd have checked that it was mine ..... 2.5 tons of land rover in low range at about 30km/h would have hurtled through the fence, hooked my trailer on .... then picked an undamaged bit of fence to leave through. You could only hope they would ring the police when your there hooking it up. Could you really be so lucky ?
seeya,
Shane L.
I like the direct approach myself, Leaves a lasting memory.
SO!
This morning I found myself in receipt of some new rubber :-D
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...16/08/1166.jpg
And
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...16/08/1167.jpg
Just have to fit it now and see how she glides up and down after servicing the regs with some fresh grease.
More to come.............
Nice day today so I got stuck in, Fired the old girl up and pulled around to the front of the shed and set to stripping the door.
Been apart before a few times it seems as the plastic was missing and it fell off when I removed the handle screws which were mixed thread and head.
Speaker wires not connected either!
Stripped the rest of the bailey channel rubber out and gave the channel a good clean out, no rust evident.
Bottom sliders showing some rust so they were cleaned up awaiting grease
The reg was inspected with bore scope and I then tested the old window motor which went down fast but was a bit slow even without rubber in the channel so I removed it and refitted the new motor which is turning into a huge PITA.
First hassle was plugging it back into the door loom and there is Zero room in there for my bunch of bananas hands so I pulled the rubber loom sleeve off the door, unclipped the door harness clips and fed the plug out the hole the loom runs out of and into the A Pillar then fed the motor loom out the same hole and eventually plugged it into the loom again ready for its first test.....
Fail! and as it tried but failed I assumed correctly that the motor was binding so I backed off the motor mount bolts and she slid down like a dream and groaned its way back up.
By now Id been at it on and off since 11am and with interruptions I got it half done by 11 pm under halogen light.
So to recap, New motor in, now needs alignment/adjustment, New bailey chan rubber still not fitted.
And of course..... PICCIES!
Old motor no rubber
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Pre clean rusty bits
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/08/485.jpg
Old left and right Motors
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/08/486.jpg
New Drivers door Motor
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/08/487.jpg
Lets try the Vid link again....
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