Thieves

[Anonymous-0]

I came home from work Friday evening to find some had backed up to my corn Crib and stole the complete set of cultivators for my 1946 Farmall A. I live a few miles East of Bloomington,IN. The cultivators have been stored in the same spot in the corn crib since the 1950s when my grandpa bought the tractor. Thursday night I was in the crib looking to see if I had everything since I was going to restore them this spring. The were unique in the fact that they used the Lift-All system instead of by hand. I finally found a worn out book on ebay that showed how to mount them just about a week ago. I filed a police report, were going to hit the salvage yards this morning.

 

[Wile E]

Some real ballsy guys stole the steel gate off the state park in my area, last winter this happened. It would take 2 or more guys to pull this off. Cameras are needed.
What pizzes me off is that these scrap buyers do not even care what shows up at their place, copper transformers, AC condenser units, anything. I had read in the past that some of these bums were ripping the aluminum siding off of homes for money.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Around my neck of the woods, Louisville, Ky. area, fur several years now the scrape yards ask to see your drivers license when selling scrape iron.

 

[Mark Poss]

As long as the price of iron is up you will have thieves. To bad you didn't catch the rotten b@stards

 

[Bushed]

(quoted from post at 12:46:26 12/21/13) I came home from work Friday evening to find some had backed up to my corn Crib and stole the complete set of cultivators for my 1946 Farmall A. I live a few miles East of Bloomington,IN. The cultivators have been stored in the same spot in the corn crib since the 1950s when my grandpa bought the tractor. Thursday night I was in the crib looking to see if I had everything since I was going to restore them this spring. The were unique in the fact that they used the Lift-All system instead of by hand. I finally found a worn out book on ebay that showed how to mount them just about a week ago. I filed a police report, were going to hit the salvage yards this morning.

The same sort of crap is going on also in Australia too. Some of them will steal the shirt off your back if they get the chance.

 

[buickanddeere]

It's the scrap yard owners themselves and their agents who are doing the stealing.

 

[55deere70]

Same thing around here...they came quite a ways through the woods to steal the copper fuel lines and battery cables off of our sawmill.

 

[pbb]

They need to try to steal the barrel off your shotgun while you are holding it. Thats what they need is some buckshot to break them from the habbit.

 

[larryanderson]

Front end weights seem to be one of the things that disappear .They are easy to sell and all look the same.Most thieves aren't real bright and to sell them to a scrap yard for $200 a ton or $20 a weight should throw up a red flag but some of them still try.Game cameras have helped but they steal them too.The more aggressive ones take the whole outfit.

 

[T in NE]

That's nothing new in a big city. My uncle saw a guy lose his aluminum ladder one day while he was on the roof it leaned against. Threw his hammer at the guy, missed, and lost it too. Dayton, Ohio.

 

[J.Wondergem]

(quoted from post at 19:42:53 12/21/13) It's the scrap yard owners themselves and their agents who are doing the stealing.

You don't know what your talking about.