Thread: stolen diesel

We were having ram raid problems a few years back thought I had a good idea. Park the forkhoist behind the closed door with the forks at chest height if your sitting in the car. Apparently its illegal to do that as youll hurt the people when they try and ram your door.....wtf

Originally Posted by blip

We were having ram raid problems a few years back thought I had a good idea. Park the forkhoist behind the closed door with the forks at chest height if your sitting in the car. Apparently its illegal to do that as youll hurt the people when they try and ram your door.....wtf

But would it be illegal if it had a box pallet loaded on the forks?

Originally Posted by blip

We were having ram raid problems a few years back thought I had a good idea. Park the forkhoist behind the closed door with the forks at chest height if your sitting in the car. Apparently its illegal to do that as youll hurt the people when they try and ram your door.....wtf

Use the forklift to place some one ton concrete blocks behind the door. Not your problem then if someone decides to end themselves in a spectacular fashion on some solid objects, Darwin award opportunity. I'm a little bit over the preciousness we currently have towards the little shits, because if you happened to be walking behind the door when they decided to ram it and you were killed or seriously injured they would get discounts for every damn thing that happened back in 1756 including climate change and get sent home with a handout to by some more chemicals to imbibe virtually no consequence. There seems to have developed a tolerance in the justice community to this sort of behaviour and it's almost competitive to see who can come up with the best new excuse to 'explain' it and all involved seem to have lost sight of the fact of why 'society' views this sort of opportunistic offending so poorly.

As far as the contaminated diesel, I know one guy that used it as a way to get rid of all of his crap, accidentally mixed petrol/diesel, if he changed the brake fluid the old stuff went in, dirty used engine oil, all went in and over a big company with a lot of machines they generated a fair bit. He secured all the good fuel that was left on site and went to a little truck based setup for refilling all the machines, so got old 20L drums and put the crap into it. Then set up a dummy bund area that looked the part and called it fuel storage or some junk, made it easy to get to and left the idiots to clean up his waste for him. Worked for about 2 months, had four occasions caught on the hidden cameras where the crap was cleaned up and then funny old thing it was all left alone after that.

I guess the fuked thing is with how we are today if your not worried about hurting their feelings and put something in the fuel and they steal it, they can come back and do you for the damage the stolen fuel did. Honestly wouldnt surprise me these days where we have to just let them steal whatever they want...

Originally Posted by blip

I guess the fuked thing is with how we are today if your not worried about hurting their feelings and put something in the fuel and they steal it, they can come back and do you for the damage the stolen fuel did. Honestly wouldnt surprise me these days where we have to just let them steal whatever they want...

cough,cough, Opotiki

The thing with the forklift scenario comes under mantraps.
We can laugh about it as such but you never have legally been allowed to set traps for people like that.
That goes for electricity etc

Originally Posted by csmiffy

The thing with the forklift scenario comes under mantraps.
We can laugh about it as such but you never have legally been allowed to set traps for people like that.
That goes for electricity etc

Yep but placing a concrete block inside the door isn't a mantrap. Now the little old lady that got sick of getting terrorised and stitched fishhooks to her curtains and laced fishhooks around a baseball bat a few years ago, well... The cops and paramedics were laughing so hard they couldn't do anything to help the poor bugger. He was wrapped up in a ripped off curtain, tied to it with fishhooks, while she was limping along tweaking him with a baseball bat that he couldn't defend himself from due to more fishhooks. She couldn't hit him hard enough to wound but the entire scenario was just comedy gold. Me mate was a paramedic at the time, the little old dear was ex-WWII etc and taking no shite from no one. He was trying to get her into the back of the bus to check her out so she didn't keel over on them and she wasn't having a bar of that while there was sport to be had. A simpler more honest time!

Solved my stolen petrol problem by installing security cameras and powering up the fence they were coming over/through - it was close enough to the unit that they would have got about 8000v when they tried again

Unfortunately so much of this is about making them decide to go somewhere else rather than stopping them completely

Originally Posted by blip

We were having ram raid problems a few years back thought I had a good idea. Park the forkhoist behind the closed door with the forks at chest height if your sitting in the car. Apparently its illegal to do that as youll hurt the people when they try and ram your door.....wtf

Unfortunately OHS won't like that and could go for the person that parked it in such an unsafe manner.

Leaving fork (with/without weight) in the air is not a good idea,
hydraulic will lose its pressure over time and fork will drop in a few hours,
I usually reverse parked the forklift with the back touching the rolling door,
good luck with ramraiding that counterweight.

I did say that how about we put the forks at the height i said and put some stands under it take the battery etc out because we are working on it but thats a no as well

What Snap 4T said - that's what I do.

Just park it hard against the door. The deceleration curve would be pretty dramatic, and no comeback from OSH or the Police for mantrapping.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Really drives home the importance of labeling containers, haven't had a proper stuff up yet but I've found all sorts of shit in all sorts of containers in farm workshops.

We got contractors in to lay about 70m2 exposed aggregate patio at our previous house. After the pour they sprayed it with the wrong stuff and couldn't properly expose the aggregate. The crew boss admitted he had changed the brand of chemical and not told the crew it was supplied in a different colour container. Net result was a few days later there was a mini digger breaking up the new patio, dump it all, relay new patio. They lost a lot of $ on that stuff up! (FYI they first offered to do a stamped finish on top of the first pad but I rejected that as we had exposed aggregate driveway, other areas, etc)