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For those of you who have suffered thefts from sheds, here's a new twist. We do things differently in North Wales

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w ... 45#rlabs=1

If they have enough neck they can get away with anything. Only needs them to look as though they were there legally and nobody questions them. Hi-viz jackets are a favourite ploy...

MW

Unless it is genuinely too big or heavy to move anchor any shed, especially allotment one's.
Gives protection against wind as well as thieves and vandals.

Either sledgehammer in a 4' angle iron centrally and secure it to the floor supports or do similar externally on diagonally opposite corners and bolt to the structural wood.
Use coach bolts that have a smooth domed head to the bolt with that on the outside.

For a more secure method use a posthole borer or spade to make a 2'+ hole and concrete the base of a shorter piece of angle iron in and backfill with soil. This can he easier as wet cement allows some adjustment to fit.

Oh my, imagine that?

How did the neighbours not hear the thieves emptying all that stuff out of the shed in the middle of the night??

Gosh, I am glad we seem to live in a more law-abiding area. In our 33 years on the plot, the only thefts have been of some pea pods by children too bored to watch the village cricket match! And if anybody broke into the shed with a sledge hammer, there wouldn't be a soul to hear it. I suppose it helps that there is no vehicular access and any miscreant would have a fair walk with the loot to any getaway vehicle.

It always disturbs me when I read about allotment and garden thefts, particularly allotment theft. Not that theft from a garden is any less disturbing it's just that allotment holders have a particularly difficult situation.

I'm also fortunate in that anyone in our lane has to explain their presence, although it is a public footpath it's rarely used and the lane is a private road so vehicular use is limited to two residences and the farms access to fields.

We don't have alarms but we do have very noisy ground cover called scalpings which is ground local stone. We also have night lighting LED downward facing lamps, this lighting is quite muted though does cast many shadows. Another benefit of living here is that the escape route is limited.

We have fly tipping but not a lot of rural theft.

Ive had my shed down the plot robbed 4 times in the last 8 months im about £600 pounds out of pocket it was a safe place up to last year then the breakins started, i fitted a dummy camera and a alarm padlock total price around £18 its been left alone since, the last lot of breakins resulted with a hammer being left on the floor out side my shed i think they may have touched the padlock and heard it beep as it douse before it sets the alarm off

That is dreadful.

If you consider the whole spectrum of theft these scum are hardly stealing as an earner, it's the enjoyment of stealing. Regardless of what they gain they probably spend all day in bed then need something to do at night.

You couldn't really excuse them for the re-distribution of wealth which has been a social do-gooders excuse for certain theft.

They are stealing from people who don't have a lot of money.

Bastards.

They are stealing from people who don't have a lot of money.

Bastards.


Succinctly put Richard, couldn't agree more.

There are people round here think I'm well off, tradesmen have tried to rip me off by over charging. You can guarantee a hiked up price quote for anything because of where I live.

It's not an expensive home by Royal County prices or Bath prices but it is nice and it's been paid for by me and her working rather than dodging it and though I did spend a few years in and out of hospital and time of sick all-in-all I worked from the day I left school.

They say, "It's all right for some".

As a young man I had to sit up all night with my brother to catch the bastards who were stealing our coal, this was during rationing. Still no excuse. Needy people stealing from poor people who worked just that bit harder and cared for their pennies.

Most allotment I've been to and seen photos of are a mishmash of parts and bits-and-bobs stuck together with the odd greenhouse and shed. The few people i've known who worked an allotment were pensioners. Lots of evidence of hard work and love though very little wealth or even enough to steal other than the produce.

How do they sleep at night.

How do they sleep at night.

Soundly mate, soundly. They have no conscience.

I think the scroats where i live are druggies, our allotment is in the bad part of town where most of the lowlife live i know that is not politically correct but its true, they need a fix where or how can they fund it one of the ways is to rob sheds! garages,little old ladies