Thieves again! Storage solutions required

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We've just had ANOTHER set of stuff pinched from the yard. Nothing major but a few things costing £20 or £30 quid each soon start to add up. We must have lost several hundreds of pounds of stuff over the past few years!

Most of it was kept inside the hay store (rechargeable lights etc) which is a reasonable distance from the road and as we are down a quiet lane, you dont get many passers-by.

No point in reporting it really as the last time I rang the police station regarding our electric fencing stuff being nicked, the guy actually laughed!

So... what does everyone else use? Hubby is talking about knocking down the hay store (which needs replacing soon anyway) and buying a lockable shipping container. They seem a bit expensive though and I'm not sure whether we would need planning permission

Any other suggestions??
 
I think your OH is right. We have a shipping container. You can get them on ebay, although we just asked around the local area. I could be wrong, but dont think you would need PP as they are mobile. We painted ours dark green so it didn't stick out like a sore thumb!
 
No you don't need planning permission(well we didn't because its not permanent). We bought a second hand one and had it for 4 years have just sold it for what we bought it for £800+VAT. it was a 20 foot one you can get 10ft,20ft and 40ft I believe. But you do have to pay for Hyab to deliver it normally about £150 - £200. But it's instant. Always check the inside before buying to check they don't leak. Sometimes you do get condensation in them.

Hope thats some use to you
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We have a shipping container with 2-3 locks on the outside, but these are not inpenetrable!! We have been broken into twice in that! Generators, lawnmowers, rugs have gone. We no longer keep the saddles down there, thanks to previous break ins and rubbish E&L!

First time they chopped through the locks (god knows how, they are both in metal box type things) and the second time they choppped through the hinges on one of the doors with a hacksaw!! We only know they did that as we found the blades they'd gone through. makes you feel sick that there are people walking round your horses at night with blades, as unfortunately we are not on site.

I should point out that the stables are 200m down a track off a country lane adn they have to get through two locked gates to get there, so more often than not we have to replace those padlocks/chains too
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Don't keep anything there!

They know that what they steal will be replaced, so they will be back for the next lot.

Dustbins are great for storing things.... because they look like they will only have rubbish in them... so the bare essensials could be stored in a bin... everything else take home!

Unless you have locked and alarmed tack room which complies with the criteria of your insurance... there is no point in insuring tack. If it is stored at thome it is under your house insurance.
 
Several loose alsations? Geese? Personally I find angry geese petrifying, apparently they can break your arm
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sorry, probably not very helpful
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We have a shipping container with 2-3 locks on the outside, but these are not inpenetrable!! We have been broken into twice in that! Generators, lawnmowers, rugs have gone. We no longer keep the saddles down there, thanks to previous break ins and rubbish E&L!

First time they chopped through the locks (god knows how, they are both in metal box type things) and the second time they choppped through the hinges on one of the doors with a hacksaw!! We only know they did that as we found the blades they'd gone through. makes you feel sick that there are people walking round your horses at night with blades, as unfortunately we are not on site.

I should point out that the stables are 200m down a track off a country lane adn they have to get through two locked gates to get there, so more often than not we have to replace those padlocks/chains too
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sounds like a yard i used be on where abouts is it?
 
I think a shipping container would stop the oportunistic thief. But if thery are determined they will be tooled up and get in whatever. A conainer is propably better than what you have now.
 
A steel shipping container is probably as good a storage solution as anything else. Steel is harder to penetrate than wood. If a thief is determined enough they will gain entry. All you can hope for is to make things so difficult for them that they will leave & go somewhere else.
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