Parts Theft

[sahara]

Was reading about the theft of various parts from people's machinery earlier, well now its out turn!

Collected the header for the combine this afternoon, its stored in an outlying shed with a couple of other trailer type implements, purposely nothing exciting kept there.

Looking over the header and discover that someone has removed 9 tines from one of the bars on the reel.
WTF?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You sure they just haven’t snapped off...

 

[sahara]

Sadly not, whole double tine and attaching nut and bolt, very thorough thieves!

 

[Tarw Coch]

Was reading about the theft of various parts from people's machinery earlier, well now its out turn!

Collected the header for the combine this afternoon, its stored in an outlying shed with a couple of other trailer type implements, purposely nothing exciting kept there.

Looking over the header and discover that someone has removed 9 tines from one of the bars on the reel.
WTF?

Unbelievable, not sure what they cost but wouldn’t have thought they were high value items that someone would nick to sell on so it leaves someone who needs to fit them to a combine be it mechanic or farmer. It’s hard to believe anyone would risk their good name for a few parts that I would expect cost no more than a few quid each.

 

[puppet]

Last week I wondered how the electric fence had been knocked down. Someone had walked across the field and nicked the battery and unit. Left all the reels and posts.

 

[sahara]

That's the rather sad conclusion that we have come to. I' ve just priced them at about £3 ish per tine plus nuts and bolts, so as you say not a very high value item and no real weight for scrap value either.

 

[Dolomite]

That's the rather sad conclusion that we have come to. I' ve just priced them at about £3 ish per tine plus nuts and bolts, so as you say not a very high value item and no real weight for scrap value either.

More than likely a neighbor or local with the same header or similar and relieved you of your parts as he didn’t want to spend any money buying any for his. A very sad thought but wouldn’t be the first time I’ve heard of it happening. If it were proper criminals or scrap men far more would have gone and not tidily either from experience. Also a proper one like I’ve read about would have took the whole header and trolly not a few tines. Which leads me to think it was for their own machine.

 

[HAM135]

We have an outlying farm 20mls away,was rained off for a few days,when it dried up i went to service the lexion before we got started cutting again opened side panel to discover the ram that holds it up had been taken,couldn't believe someone would take it,but even worse than that the drum and fan speed wouldn't go as high as they should,wouldn't go as quick on the road either,mechanic had a look when we got home and found someone had exchanged there broken rod for the throttle actuator with ours.Never leave anything in the fields up there now!!

 

[uztrac]

Even 60 years ago fellow farmers were not adverse to borrowing a tankful of diesel if the bowser was left out in places overnight,as I have witnessed myself. So nothing has really changed for the better !!!

 

[B R C]

I find this very sad, there are some strange mentalities out there, probably the same people who don’t think twice about spending £100k on a machine because they can’t bear the thought of paying any tax and then pinching something worth a fiver...

 

[super4]

This reminds me of a trip to Poland 15yrs ago,the farm we stayed on had security guards to guard the farm machinery! A neighbouring farm we looked around took all its machinery back to a locked compound every day with a couple of german shepherds on patrol.

 

[wasted years]

This reminds me of a trip to Poland 15yrs ago,the farm we stayed on had security guards to guard the farm machinery! A neighbouring farm we looked around took all its machinery back to a locked compound every day with a couple of german shepherds on patrol.

Who looked after the sheep then?

 

[agrimax]

Who looked after the sheep then?

 

[quattro]

That's the rather sad conclusion that we have come to. I' ve just priced them at about £3 ish per tine plus nuts and bolts, so as you say not a very high value item and no real weight for scrap value either.

Annoying thing is you will probably know who it is if they knew the header was there

 

[Red Fred]

Apart from a Kuhn tedder PTO and a concrete tractor weight, I haven't had many parts nicked.
What annaoyed me though, was the attitude of a farmer who knew I had an MF combine I used as spares for my own. He turned up in the middle of harvest wanting a belt as his had broken and he needed one urgently. I showed him where it was and told him to help himself. Off he went with his free belt.
In the winter, I went to get something for my combine and found every useable bit had been removed, belts, tines, rams you name it. The wotsit had been back and stripped it without me noticing. I went round to ask and he admitted it- "well parts are so expensive and you can have what you need back if yours needs it!"

 

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Last week I wondered how the electric fence had been knocked down. Someone had walked across the field and nicked the battery and unit. Left all the reels and posts.

We can't use electric fences on farm battery and unit dissappear within a couple of days.

 

[Red Fred]

Some people have rather an odd view of machines and seem to think they are almost alive, and must be saved over any human consideration. I belong to several old tractor groups and some of the comments from enthusiasts are bizarre- a photo of a 1962 Fordson in a farmer's shed will elicit comments such as "what a selfish b+++++, I bet he wouldn't let me have it to restore! He'll just leave it there til it rots!" and so on.
Any idea that this is someone else's property seems to have gone out of the window. And any feeling as to why it may be there (grandad passed away? someone bought it to restore? ) is completely ignored. They are just stupid machines, for goodness sake!

 

[Ducati899]

Went out to scrape up the cubicles many years ago here on the trusty 135,someone had overnight taken the exhaust the manifold,battery and fuel tank cover,the battery itself..the Lucas key and the windscreen wiper..they weren’t that bright though as they’d taken all that off and then tried to tow the tractor away and couldn’t get out the Locked gates,also someone I know came down from Hampshire to Dorset to buy a slurry tanker at a farm sale and asked if I’d take it back to my farm For a few days,went back with tractor to pick it up,wasn’t gone any More than half hour to get my tractor and on my return the pto shaft and splash plate had gone!! The sale was actually still going on in the field

 

[Kevtherev]

Digger batteries and grease guns are the favourite for the light fingered barstewards

 

[startinghandle]

not many years ago a local farmer borrowed a rowing up machine from a local dealer and if it worked okay he would buy it, but he part exchanged it for a new machine from another dealer, police were involved and the whole episode cost the farmer a lot of money.. needless to say that he is not very intelligent