[AT] Melting it all down.

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 01:57:38 PDT 2008


Here, when selling at a scrapyard you'll have to identify your self
and sign a paper that says that it's your property or if it someoene
hauling it for me I have to provide them with a paper. If the
scrapyard don't have this papers and something is found out to be
stolen they're really hanging loose. Still there are a lot of stealing
but it sure has decreased as have the less serious scrapyards.

Mattias

2008/7/18 Indiana Robinson <robinson at svs.net>:
>        I have a collection of iron farm implement wheels sitting around at
> different buildings as decorations. Lately I have been considering how
> best to protect them. The two houses sit 300' apart and my woodshop is
> at the south house which is empty. OK, so it is not empty... I should
> say nobody lives there right now, the house is full...   ;-)
> We have a good watch dog in a large pen down there and while she is not
> a large dog not much gets by her. If she starts barking that alerts the
> dog that runs free and she heads down there at full clip. She isn't a
> huge dog either but somehow people find Chow's pretty intimidating. She
> is quite territorial.
>        I have a pile of scrap out for my regular scrap guy to pick up soon and
> it draws way too much attention. Scrappers stop to ask about it often.
> The pile should be gone in a week or two. The dogs favorite napping spot
> is only about 50 feet away from it.
>        My theft problem is the set of barns down the road to the west. I don't
> dare leave a tractor sitting down there with gas in the tank... I also
> wouldn't dare to sit any of my iron wheels down there and that angers
> me. Current situations are making full fledged thieves out of guys that
> ordinarily wouldn't bother old stuff but get tempted by possible free
> gas or a few extra easy bucks. I do have a good neighbor down there next
> to those buildings but his house is air conditioned and always closed up
> and he doesn't have any downstairs windows where he can see my
> buildings. Two years ago I pulled a wagon load of hay out of the barn
> and found that "mice" had eaten over a half dozen bales of hay off of
> one back corner, twines and all.   ;-)   Since it was off of the back
> corner I had no idea when they had been taken. A few bales of hay won't
> break me, its just the dang principal of it...   :-(   I have managed to
> get by (sometimes struggling) for 66 years without trespassing and
> stealing from folks. I tell myself that the hay maybe at least kept some
> poor critter from going hungry...
>        Now I need to go out and see if the dog was barking at a deer or a
> human last night. I keep a spot-light and a shotgun handy for "events"
> but she didn't seem too excited last night so I didn't go out.
>
>
> --
>
>
> "farmer"
>
>
> I wouldn't mind being absent minded so bad if forgetfulness
> could just be a little more selective. Just last week I
> was saying so to "whats-her-name..."
>
>
>
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>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
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