Please keep an eye out for my stolen saws

[arborpros]

Insurance works fellas. Without my theft policy I'd be screwed for a month or two but with the policy I'm back up and running in less than a week. Went and picked up my first batch of new items today. Got a 201t, 261, 660, BR600, a climbing lanyard for my climbing saw, 3 cases for the saws, and 1 extra chain for each saw. I feel good today. Almost justified, but still mad as hell over the theft.

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[tree md]

Good deal. I'm going to look into getting theft for my stuff after reading this.

Let us know how that 261 compares to the 260. I almost bought one over the Summer when my 260 went down. I just wasn't ready to go for it yet. I had my 260 rebuilt for $85 when I got home off the road. I am still too mad about them doing away with the 200... No way I am buying a 201 anytime soon. I may have a husky for a new climbing saw next time around.

 

[arborpros]

I'm went ahead and rolled the dice with the 201. It was not easy to do but I had to do something. Worse comes to worse I give it to my motor guy for a muffler job and carb adjustment. I'm still going to find a low hour 200t and buy that along with another medium sized saw in te 60-70cc range. Here is a picture with everything put together. 660 with a 36" bar, 261 with a 18" bar, and the 210t with a 14" bar BR600

I've heard really good things about the 261. Seems solid and I like the new things on it. The chain cover is metal and the bolts are fixed to it so you don't lose them. The air filter is bigger and it looks like it will breath better. Stailess muffler to save on weight. We'll see. I have a really fun big oak to take down this weekend so I'll let you know. Problem with all these is it is Winter and I'm slow so it is going to take extra long to break them in.

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[tree md]

Nice!

Do you normally run a 36" on your 660? I was running one on mine all Summer for the big Pines and Oaks I was doing in the storm affected area in AL. I put a 32" on it when I got back to OK. Most of our trees are just not that big here. I am thinking about even going down to a 30" or 28". Nice to have the 36" when I need it though.

 

[arborpros]

I did not but that is the bar that was on it when it was stolen. I still have and will normally run a 28" or a 24". I have some really big oak to cut in the coming days so I just left the bigger bar on.

 

[mattfr12]

Yes. From any computer with internet and my phone. If you want to keep it on the cheap, Sam's Club has a couple options that are really nice systems as well. You can do it for under $500 with one of their systems. I think adding the large lights is going to make a huge difference.

thats the way to go my wife does book work for me and i have a monitor that runs 24/7 in my house about 2 miles from my shop and she watches it for me during the day.

i have 6 cameras the two on the corners of my garage can be pan tilted and zoomed from a smart phone they zoom in enough to read a license plate at say 2-300 yards.

 

[mattfr12]

im not sure even on thier make and model but i had them installed by a security company i can give you thier number and ask them what they installed im sure they have them on hand also if you wanted a few.

thier on battery backup and the whole nine yards they will work for like 3 days without power.

 

[pdqdl]

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.

I have recovered two different thefts from pawn shops, and they had both been reported as stolen. No, the cops didn't locate them, despite all the supposed reporting requirements.

Go visit the pawn shops in your area. Visit on a regular basis; just walk through, look around...leave. If you find a stolen saw, don't cause a big scene. Just call the cops, notify the department that checks on the pawn shops. Take pictures of your stolen property, making sure that you have good pics that prove your stolen property is in their store. THEN notify the pawn shop of your discovery. Advise them that you have spoken to officer ???? from the police department that their shop is in possession of your stolen property. Could you please remove this item from your "for sale" area until the police department can recover it for me?

Be prepared to make a big scene if the pawn shop acts like they are going to deny the problem and fail to cooperate. The pawn shops hate to get caught with stolen property, but they reluctantly cooperated with me both times I found my stuff. Usually, the cops keep it as evidence until the case goes to prosecution or is dropped. Once, I never got my saw back, but the thief was forced to make restitution.

 

[bigcut]

I lost 12 saws and and about $10,000 in rigging and climbing equipment last year. Right on the main road in town in front of God and everybody(Rt 1). The trucks were broken into three time all the last Thursday of the months of July, August and September. We had a Microburst in town and it brought in alot of companies from outside our area. All the equipment was stamped on the cylender heads with our company name and rigging gear too. Not a single lead in over a year and a half. I feel for you but try not to get your hopes up for a return on those saws.

 

[arborpros]

I lost 12 saws and and about $10,000 in rigging and climbing equipment last year. Right on the main road in town in front of God and everybody(Rt 1). The trucks were broken into three time all the last Thursday of the months of July, August and September. We had a Microburst in town and it brought in alot of companies from outside our area. All the equipment was stamped on the cylender heads with our company name and rigging gear too. Not a single lead in over a year and a half. I feel for you but try not to get your hopes up for a return on those saws.

Sorry about your losses. That sucks.

I'm counting it as a total loss. If I get them back great if not, I have gotten and will continue to get new and better saws than I had. If I run in to who stole them, today or in 50 years, I'll get my justification one way or another.

I'm a firm believer in everything happens for a reason. I try to stay positive about things like this and always look forward. I could dwell and simmer over it for years but that does not make any money. It just makes you bitter and that spreads from business to home to how you treat people. Adapt and overcome, it will get you further than being a bitter man.

 

[mattfr12]

Sorry about your losses. That sucks.

I'm counting it as a total loss. If I get them back great if not, I have gotten and will continue to get new and better saws than I had. If I run in to who stole them, today or in 50 years, I'll get my justification one way or another.

I'm a firm believer in everything happens for a reason. I try to stay positive about things like this and always look forward. I could dwell and simmer over it for years but that does not make any money. It just makes you bitter and that spreads from business to home to how you treat people. Adapt and overcome, it will get you further than being a bitter man.

im gonna start pumping 220v through the handles on my toolboxes so that when someone tries to break in at night they get some.

 

[pdqdl]

I like the electrification idea, but I'm not so sure about 240v!

The cheap little electric fence chargers that throw about 600 volts would work better. Straight 240v would throw enough current to kill somebody in addition to the current going through bearings and possibly damaging your vehicle. Heck, you could even set your truck on fire if that ever made it to ground.

There are two kinds of fence chargers. Capacitive discharge throws thousands of volts, but you have to be touching the wire (truck) when it "pings". The cheaper transformer styles can't energize miles of fence, but they will bite you the moment you touch the metal.

 

[bigcut]

We thought of the electric idea also and a few others. I have to agree with arborpros philosophy about it happens for a reason, and I never want to find out who did it to me because I will be the one in jail. A friend made referance to the fact that if you take another mans tools it is low as a snakes belly in a wagonwheel rut. I hope that your equipment returns some day and the person who needed them so badly will find a that life is better if you give of yourself instead of recieve.

 

[ROPECLIMBER]

This was posted on the 15th on sait lewis CL

Stihl MS200t

 

[arborpros]

I emailed on that saw with no return email. Thanks for the heads up though. I really appreciate it. Keep them coming fellas. Ill look in to all leads.

 

[superjunior]

im gonna start pumping 220v through the handles on my toolboxes so that when someone tries to break in at night they get some.

I've thought about this as well, even planting some bouncing bettys or claymoors. Talked to a cop buddy of mine and it turns out its illegal to blow up thieves...

Now why the hell is that?...

 

[tree md]

I've thought about this as well, even planting some bouncing bettys or claymoors. Talked to a cop buddy of mine and it turns out its illegal to blow up thieves...

Now why the hell is that?...

Not in Oklahoma...

 

[2treeornot2tree]

If you blow them up, they wont be telling the cops. Just make sure nothings left.

 

[Sagetown]

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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Sorry to hear that .I lost two 361's a power pruner and a floor jack this year.Scumbag mother ####ing thieves.

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.

Repped lost tools .

 

[Sagetown]

I lost 12 saws and and about $10,000 in rigging and climbing equipment last year. Right on the main road in town in front of God and everybody(Rt 1). The trucks were broken into three time all the last Thursday of the months of July, August and September. We had a Microburst in town and it brought in alot of companies from outside our area. All the equipment was stamped on the cylender heads with our company name and rigging gear too. Not a single lead in over a year and a half. I feel for you but try not to get your hopes up for a return on those saws.

Repped.