Best Tracker?

[Cab-over Pete]

Aye-up,

After a visit from thieving scrotes I’m thinking I ought to get one or two machines fitted with a tracker.

I don’t know much about them, but it has been suggested a SIM card system is cheap but effective, but I don’t want cheap if it’s no good.

I already have most kit Data-tagged.

Any recommendations?

Cheers, Pete.

 

[S J H]

A fiend had one last week, it's about the size of a coke can, just hide it somewhere in a machine and it texts you if it senses vibration, I think he got them off ebay.

 

[TripleSix]

If you want only a dedicated theft tracker I'd fit an Automatrics M Track.
Being a battery powered unit they're easier to hide too

 

[james ds]

Aye-up,

After a visit from thieving scrotes I’m thinking I ought to get one or two machines fitted with a tracker.

I don’t know much about them, but it has been suggested a SIM card system is cheap but effective, but I don’t want cheap if it’s no good.

I already have most kit Data-tagged.

Any recommendations?

Cheers, Pete.

There's a guy here who has developed a system that works brilliantly , it has the clock hours on it as well , I have two of them fitted , one on the 13 t digger and I can check it every day for the hours worked , I have the other on the hilux and I can see what speed it's going and where it is and the miles on the clock.

 

[Tony1989]

ATVTrac are very good, can be fitted to anything and you can transfer it too another machine if you change it. you can see all the info and prices on ther website.

 

[David.]

Do these things still work when bike is put in a box lined with the local church roof?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Just what I was wondering.

 

[Ukjay]

You can also buy signal scramblers off ebay..

 

[Tony1989]

ATVTrac do but not sure on other ones

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

There's a guy here who has developed a system that works brilliantly , it has the clock hours on it as well , I have two of them fitted , one on the 13 t digger and I can check it every day for the hours worked , I have the other on the hilux and I can see what speed it's going and where it is and the miles on the clock.

They simply tap in to the CAN bus on the vehicle / machine in question and can read all the vehicle vitals, like looking up a train timetable. Some of the el cheapo ones are nothing more than an adapted OBD-II diagnostic plug with a SIM card and £10 GPS receiver fitted.

 

[S J H]

Do these things still work when bike is put in a box lined with the local church roof?

That's why I like the one I mentioned, by the time they jump in and try to start it, you've been alerted. Same with a quad, if it was put on a trailer.

 

[Servac]

Do these things still work when bike is put in a box lined with the local church roof?

Automatrics M Track have a few videos on youtube of recovery operations which are worth a watch, most cannot be tracked by gps due to lack of signal or scramblers. They seem to recover most using an approximate location from the phone signal and then pin pointing it by driving around looking for a radio frequency emitted by the tracking device.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

I like the look of this:

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Being able to set up a 'fence' around a usual operating area and being text if the vehicle goes outside the fence sounds ideal.
I presume they have a battery to provide a signal for a while in case the vehicles power is disabled?

 

[Lazy Eric]

I use the Tracker version for my defender.. ( they’ve thought hard about the name!!).
We had a slight bump with it one day and it was put on a recovery truck .
Tracker was ringing me before it got to the end of the road to tell me it was moving without engine on..

 

[mayos]

Do you use the Livelink on your JCB? You can add a livelink light to anything with a battery and a run signal as I understand it. Would only give you location and run hours but would be in your livelink system which you might use anyway.

 

[upnortheast]

We have trackers from these on the vans https://www.rewiresecurity.co.uk/
Can be set to alarm on vibration, Outside normal area etc etc
Sim cost less than £5 / year
After 1st year a charge for using their system. Can not remember how much but modest

 

[Brisel]

Have a chat with your insurer @Cab-over Pete I insure with NFU Mutual and would get 12.5% off the premium for that machine for certain grades of Thatcham rating. For big ticket items like newish Terragators you'd soon get your money back. 12.5% off for CESAR Datatags too.

 

[Ayd1988]

I have a tracker on the tractor from a company called trackit247 , very good works based on a SIM card and tracks all movements and reports to a website every 10 seconds when moving. Also has a function to remotely turn off the tractor via txt. It’s £10 a month but worth every penny in my opinion. All jobs can be looked back on for start and finish times, fields covered etc.

 

[wold-topper]

https://greenhandlers.co.uk/trackers

These guys know there stuff when it comes to trackers for ag and construction gear

 

[Robt]

Just what I was wondering.

Boxes like that don’t tend to be Mobile so it’ll track it right to it! Or you can put a time limit on it. Say after 8pm. It’ll text you if it moves. If it does, grab some friends and follow it all while talking to the police