All the saddles - gone!

I'm really lucky as Yo lives on sight and any strange people she's at the yard like a shot. I never by from "tack room clear out" ads as it makes me wonder who's tackroom has been cleared out.
 
Our yard was cleared out a few months ago...all saddles, bridles, a vehicle and trailer. The owner lives in a house on site but didn't hear anything. A number of yards have been done in the surrounding areas...it seems as if one a month. I find it very hard to believe the police don't know who does these thefts and why they do not take any action- thieves seems to have carte blanche to carry on. The raids seems to be very efficiently executed, and CCTV footage of the culprits doesn't seem to help finding them. Where does the stuff go, inc a vehicle that should have been traceable. I despair and feel very disheartened at the apparent disinterest of the police.
 
Gah that’s awful. I hope you get something back for them :( do yard insurances cover that? My yards been broken into before so I’m quite anal about lockers now. If they’re going to break in (proper 5 bolt doors or whatever it’s called) they can break into my locker too but it’s at least a bit of a deterrent or a time waster for them anyway. We have Cctv and spotlights thankfully and a “screamer” who would wake half the country anytime it merely hears a bird flap it’s wings.
 
miss_c said:
So sorry to read this, the thieving barstewards!

Also worth checking the small print of your horse insurance for tack... most will only insure it if the tackroom has a 5 lever mortice deadlock bolt, and I've yet to come across a tack room that has that on the door! I keep my saddle in my car as it's insured in there, plus people have a habit of constantly leaving the tack room open.
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You are at the wrong sort of yard then lol - ALL the yards I have been on for the past 15 years have had 5 lever mortice deadlocks on the tack room, usually with an alarm too :)
 
I am really sorry you tack has been stolen but I do wonder why people keep tack on livery yards.
Until 4 years ago I was at livery, I always took my tack home or its locked in the boot of my car. At one point I had so many saddles I sacrificed a room in my house for storing tack, its not just its value but the effort of finding something to fit.
People like neat tack rooms, but really you are creating a virtual shop for a thief, they just walk in and its all in one place. Unlike a shop it unlikely to have CCTV, and good burglar alarm and close neighbours.
If its locked in the boot of your car or is listed as sporting equipment on your house insurance you have a greater chance of getting it replaced.
 
honetpot said:
I am really sorry you tack has been stolen but I do wonder why people keep tack on livery yards.
Until 4 years ago I was at livery, I always took my tack home or its locked in the boot of my car. At one point I had so many saddles I sacrificed a room in my house for storing tack, its not just its value but the effort of finding something to fit.
People like neat tack rooms, but really you are creating a virtual shop for a thief, they just walk in and its all in one place. Unlike a shop it unlikely to have CCTV, and good burglar alarm and close neighbours.
If its locked in the boot of your car or is listed as sporting equipment on your house insurance you have a greater chance of getting it replaced.
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Lucky old you having so many saddles.....and having time to shift them beween house and car...in an ideal world perhaps we'd all do that. Unfortunately some of us are cramming in our riding before/after work, after dropping chidren off at school etc. and need the boot for carrying shopping, dogs and children's gear...no time to backwards and forwards into to the house, loading and re-loading. I read the small print, and had my tack listed on my household insurance as sporting equipment, and knew about the rules relating to locks! Anyone who has their tack stolen feels violated, it's horrible and bewildering I can assure you.
 
You people need to take up fishing.

Before you lock up the tack room, you also hang up your fishing gear to dry.

You know, nice big tuna hooks on the end of steel leaders, hanging from very sturdy hooks screwed into the ceiling beams. The kind of thing that if you didn't know it was there could easily hook your eyebrow and resist a good 100lb pull...

And in the morning, whoever opens up the tack room takes down the now dry fishing gear, and any bits of dross that got tangled up in it during the night.

All you need to do, is to label the door "tackle drying room, do not enter, it is dangerous in here".
 
Summer pudding said:
Lucky old you having so many saddles.....and having time to shift them beween house and car...in an ideal world perhaps we'd all do that. Unfortunately some of us are cramming in our riding before/after work, after dropping chidren off at school etc. and need the boot for carrying shopping, dogs and children's gear...no time to backwards and forwards into to the house, loading and re-loading. I read the small print, and had my tack listed on my household insurance as sporting equipment, and knew about the rules relating to locks! Anyone who has their tack stolen feels violated, it's horrible and bewildering I can assure you.
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The reason why I had so many saddles was I had two child with their own ponies, plus a horse. Yes I did work as well. My car was not perhaps the cleanest, but its was lockable and probably didn't look like it held about £2K of equipment.
I have actually had my house broken in to, with us in it, so I have a good idea how it feels. You just have to do everything you can to make it unattractive. The average burglary takes 3 minutes, if things are difficult to find it will not stop them but makes it difficult so they move on.
I have my own stables at home now, everything of value is in the house, even though we have CCTV , perimeter sensors and everything is padlocked. I know someone had been round to have a look, its just a fact of living in the country. You can not stop them, you just have to make it hard. Its my excuse for being untidy.
 
Keith_Beef said:
You people need to take up fishing.

Before you lock up the tack room, you also hang up your fishing gear to dry.

You know, nice big tuna hooks on the end of steel leaders, hanging from very sturdy hooks screwed into the ceiling beams. The kind of thing that if you didn't know it was there could easily hook your eyebrow and resist a good 100lb pull...

And in the morning, whoever opens up the tack room takes down the now dry fishing gear, and any bits of dross that got tangled up in it during the night.

All you need to do, is to label the door "tackle drying room, do not enter, it is dangerous in here".
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I suddenly need to acquire some of my old fishing equipment... I don't think fly fishing hooks will have quite the same effect, but, oh, I can improvise!
 
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