Some Expensive And Some Relatively Inexpensive Protection Tips For The Your Farm
A plucky and knowledgable thief will get past almost anything and in the farming arena they will think nothing of nipping into the shed and shoving your tractor onto a low loader. Then off it goes and you are left with the immediate problem of not getting your daily routine done and the bother of all the insurance paperwork, visits from the police and loss adjusters and locating a new machine. So what can you do to combat this sort of crime?
The good news is that not every criminal are as imaginative or as efficient as this and the best thing to do is make your buildings and property as unappetizing to such a criminal as possible. Small things that demand just a little consideration can help such as not keeping keys in ignitions and storing the tractor and any other gear out of vision in a barn for the night. If done this way any opportunistic criminals will not see the lures. As well on this note be careful not to keep costly tools in units close to public footpaths. They are far easier to get at more easily accessible for your general thief and may tempt them further onto your property.
Next you could consider using electric gates or industrial doors on your buildings. If the units themselves are sturdy and theft proof then having a roller door or a weak wooden barn door can defeat the object. However by choosing a hydraulic sort of industrial door you can sort out the final area of weakness in your building and almost eradicate theft from the area. Even trying to ram raid these steel framed doors is hard due to their hydraulic rams and exterior truss and the racket will definitely alert the neighbourhood to them trying.
On a similar but much less expensive note you could also go for a few geese to let loose around the yard, these animals are far more worthwhile as a deterrent than dogs are and make a massive amount of noise as well.
