Saddle / Tack room security

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I leave my saddles at home but OH is constantly moaning that they take up space! I do agree although through hissed teeth.

How do you secure your saddle up the yard? Our tack room has a wooden door and is breakinable. As my saddles are quite pricey I think they'd be the first to go walkies!

Do you keep yours in your lorry? or a metal cuboard?

Help please. Thanks
 
Am on Diy livery and we all have our own store/locked up back bits adjacent to our stables, secure enough to keep most things but due to past thefts yard owners ask that we do not keep any tack/saddles there plus not sure if having wooden doors classes as secure enough for insurance purposes so am same as yet 2 saddles cluttering up my utility room.
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You have to have pretty secure doors for insurance purposes with 5 something locks (someone on here will know). It's a hard call. One easy thing so that if it ever was stolen you could prove ownership is to get one of those UV pens and write your postcode on it. It is invisible except under UV light. Not much consolation, I know, but better than nothing.
 
I always take mine home as our tack room has been broken into too many times for me to leave it in there. I did think about leaving it in the horsebox but then if that gets stolen so does your tack, so decided against that. Its a real pain bringing it home everyday but I'd rather it was secure, its a bigger pain having to replace it.
 
We have our tack in a metal shipping container, the lock is conealed under a metal hood so you cant get bolt cutters at it and theres no other way in!! Yards around us have been broken into but no one has ever tried to get in ours.
 
Insurers vary a bit - but generally they don't like wooden buildings at all. Mine would only insure my (wooden) tackroom IF it had a burglar alarm wired into the local nick. (Fat lot of good THAT is in rural Shropshire - tack thieves would have the stuff up on E-bay or wherever before the police turned up!) With brick buildings they require 'secure' doors with mortice locks.

As we are completely landlocked and burglars could only access us by coming down a long drive, right past the house with two barking (one biting) dog, etc. we settled for very solid padlock and steel mesh built into door (as a nice surprise for the chainsaw bandits!)
 
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