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sv130:
Had a text from wife at work this morning.

  "Some body has nicked 1 of the skips"..

 Apparently a large roll on/off type skip full of cardboard has been nicked from the factory yard where she works. They will take anything these days..

 This is the third time I,ve heard of skip theft in 3 months around here, 2 roll ons and 1 large normal type skip, which they actually emptied by the side of the road before having it away..  :doh:

 I don,t imagine that chaining them down would be much help as they would nick whatever its chained to as well..

 So my question is....
 
    How could you secure a skip on your property? :-k


  Gaz     

Landy1uk:
This happend where I worked they ended up puting them in the workshop overnight and  w/ends, and right by the door during the day

Disco Matt:
What about attaching it to the ground with suitably hefty chains? If you put the ground anchors deep enough they won't be able to shift them without making a lot of noise and effort.

Try a solid steel post with spikes welded through it, this end goes in the hole and is concreted in (with the spikes making it impossible to pull out without taking the concrete plug too). That might also make for a good anti-theft precaution for caravans and trailers if you added a towball to the top, hitched the trailer to it, then fitted a hitchlock.

As with all things you'll never make it completely thief-proof, but making it difficult and time consuming to get at will put them off.

You could also try using the standard locking bollards, arranged in such a way as to make it impossible to get a skip lorry close enough to the skip with the bollards in place.

Mutz:
Tie it to a really nasty Rottie, helps with finding the culprits as the scenes of crime can get a DNA sample of the blood they find :dance:

littlepow:

--- Quote from: Mutz on September 16, 2010, 12:49:10 ---Tie it to a really nasty Rottie, helps with finding the culprits as the scenes of crime can get a DNA sample of the blood they find :dance:

--- End quote ---

Or from the bits of limbs scattered around the skip

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