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arborpros

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One of my trucks got broken in to either Monday night 1-16-2012 or Tuesday night 1-17-2012. I had 6 saws stolen out of the truck. If you are in the St. Louis area, or the Midwest for that matter, please keep an eye out for my stolen saws. Thanks in advance guys.

Saws that were stolen:
Stihl MS 192t in a case
Stihl MS 200t in a case
Stihl MS 260 PRO in a case
Stihl MS 290 in a case
Stihl MS 441av in a case
Stihl MS 660 without a case

All the saws and cases were labeled with the attached label. If you see these saws around or hear of someone getting a whole bunch of saws, please give me a call. I will happily pay a reward. The reason I am attaching the label is not because the label will still be on the saws, but the shape of the label will be clean and unscratched where the label was.
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One of my trucks got broken in to either Monday night 1-16-2012 or Tuesday night 1-17-2012. I had 6 saws stolen out of the truck. If you are in the St. Louis area, or the Midwest for that matter, please keep an eye out for my stolen saws. Thanks in advance guys.

Saws that were stolen:
Stihl MS 192t in a case
Stihl MS 200t in a case
Stihl MS 260 PRO in a case
Stihl MS 290 in a case
Stihl MS 441av in a case
Stihl MS 660 without a case

All the saws and cases were labeled with the attached label. If you see these saws around or hear of someone getting a whole bunch of saws, please give me a call. I will happily pay a reward. The reason I am attaching the label is not because the label will still be on the saws, but the shape of the label will be clean and unscratched where the label was.
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you have any buddies at a local police Dept... we have an online database that hooks in to all of our pawn shops... the shops are suppose to enter everything they take in on the database. If they have a similar system and you got a connection see if they can go in the DB I would bet the stuff starts showing up in a day or two in pawn shops.
 
Sorry to hear that .I lost two 361's a power pruner and a floor jack this year.Scumbag mother ####ing thieves.

i spent some cash on a security camera system last year for this reason i can watch it from my house and sends me a text on my phone when motion is detected.

hope you get your saws back its a shame u need cameras because of the dirt bags in the world.
 
i spent some cash on a security camera system last year for this reason i can watch it from my house and sends me a text on my phone when motion is detected.

hope you get your saws back its a shame u need cameras because of the dirt bags in the world.

Already have a call in and someone is coming out tomorrow to give me my options. Sitting here right now waiting on the Crime Scene van.
 
I was thinking craigslist too, seems like there are a lot of ads lately with little history or knowledge on what is being offered. Do you have records of the serial numbers? Damn crooks...
 
That sucks I know! Sorry to hear it. Believe me, I have had enough saws and gear stolen over the years to know exactly how pissed you are right now.

Freaking thieves, can't stand them!
 
Already have a call in and someone is coming out tomorrow to give me my options. Sitting here right now waiting on the Crime Scene van.

Your thinking of getting camera's? it wasn't really two bad i lifted the guys that installed the cameras for the parks and police station's guys around in my bucket so they could install the camera's. they cut me a break on a 6 camera system with a monitor and recording device even hooked it up to the internet for me was like 1600.00 installed they pulled all the wire and everything i can move the camera's from my cell phone zoom in and all the good stuff they will see pretty far in pitch black i always just park my trucks close enough to them to see every angle theirs even one in the shop that watches the saws and equipment go in and out.

so when I'm sick i can see hew showed up to work on time and so on.

if you wanna view them ill find the password tomorrow and let you take a look and you can get the same camera's if you want. my computer remembers the password and i have had to enter it in over a year i have no idea what it is have it written down in one of my file cabinets. their top notch their good enough or the system is to tell the difference between a moth and a human so you don't have to watch through hours of birds flying around.
 
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I was thinking craigslist too, seems like there are a lot of ads lately with little history or knowledge on what is being offered. Do you have records of the serial numbers? Damn crooks...

I bought 3 of the saws and my blower from a local shop so I am pretty sure they will have those serial numbers on file. 3 other saws I bought from friends or Craigslist so I'm not too sure how that is going to pan out. I talked to my insurance guy and he seems like it will work out just fine. I'm a little worried though.

It is right at $4000 worth of stuff gone that I know of. I have not even gone through the truck yet as the crime scene guys aren't here yet and I don't want to mess up the crime scene. My theft insurance has a $500 deductable so in a perfect world, I'll pay my deductable and get a herim of new saws and a blower. I want to see what the damage to my truck is going to be. The mother ####ers took a pry bar or flathead screw driver and riped my passenger door handle off. Could have been worse. I'm not sure what my deductable is for the truck insurance but I'll probably just pay that out of pocket in order to keep my rates down.

The thiefs had to move my $500 Tremotion harness and my $500 Carbon Geckos to get the blower out so they wanted the saws and that is it. All my ropes also. Left my gas pole saw and my Silky. I'm a damn fool for keeping all that stuff in there that is for sure. Lesson learned.

Funny part - the thiefs must have been Stihl fans because they left the only Husky I owned, a 334t.
 
Your thinking of getting camera's? it wasn't really two bad i lifted the guys that installed the cameras for the parks and police station's guys around in my bucket so they could install the camera's. they cut me a break on a 6 camera system with a monitor and recording device even hooked it up to the internet for me was like 1600.00 installed they pulled all the wire and everything i can move the camera's from my cell phone zoom in and all the good stuff they will see pretty far in pitch black i always just park my trucks close enough to them to see every angle theirs even one in the shop that watches the saws and equipment go in and out.

so when I'm sick i can see hew showed up to work on time and so on.

if you wanna view them ill find the password tomorrow and let you take a look and you can get the same camera's if you want. my computer remembers the password and i have had to enter it in over a year i have no idea what it is have it written down in one of my file cabinets. their top notch their good enough or the system is to tell the difference between a moth and a human so you don't have to watch through hours of birds flying around.

Yes, the whole shibang. I want spotlights, cameras, flame throwers, little ninjas that jump off the roof and throw stars and ####. I'll ask my guy about a system like yours. I like that idea a lot.

I have a new shop that I have not yet to move in to that already has cameras but the trucks were parked at my other business and this is the third time things have gotten stolen in 6 years. It is very close to a big hotel filled with meth heads.
 
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The crackheads are only gonna go for the saws. I can see them now looking like a monkey trying to #### a football trying to figure out what the ropes and saddle is for...
 
keep your head up

I had all my saws robbed this last summer. My $1800 MS880 just showed up in a pawn shop in Dec. Set up a craigslist search for your area to give you an alert whenever stihl chainsaw is posted. Also, get your serial numbers to the police. These two things are the bust thing you can do.

Hope this helps.
 
I had all my saws robbed this last summer. My $1800 MS880 just showed up in a pawn shop in Dec. Set up a craigslist search for your area to give you an alert whenever stihl chainsaw is posted. Also, get your serial numbers to the police. These two things are the bust thing you can do.

Hope this helps.

Working on serial numbers this morning. I have a bunch of buddies that are police officers so they are all going to do what they can. I just feel violated. I try to live right and do well by people. I'm scared of what I would do if I did find someone with one of my saws. I'm very level headed until I see red and then I am a very dangerous person. I just don't know how I'd react and that scares me a little.
 
man I hope you get your saws back - that really sucks. I had 2 saws stolen out of my garage about 10 years ago. Ins took care of it but still had to pay whatever the de was. And it's the worst feeling in the world
 
Sorry bout the theft......I visit pawn shops on the East side since I live in the region.
Will keep lookout for ur label, but serial numbers will help nail em.
 

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