Forum

Replies

• 

  Anthony Toop September 17, 2010 at 6:10pm

  Makes my blood boil reading all these posts about gear being nicked, why o why are they never seen doing it! i think i would be up on an GBH charge or worse if i caught someone stealing my kit! certainly wouldnt bother trying to ring plod, complete waste of time.
• 

  Mark Brierley September 17, 2010 at 6:21pm

  As if its not hard enough out here at the moment. Im totally sick that unless its bolted down it not insured so why do we pay for it. If its not in the lock up shut away its not insured What a laugh.
• PRO

  Gary RK September 17, 2010 at 6:42pm

  What about adding it to Landscape Juice's Stolen Kit List ?
  
  http://www.landscapejuice.com/2010/02/garden-and-landscaping-equipm...
  
  Might raise visibility and help show hotspots etc ....
• 

  Mark Brierley September 17, 2010 at 6:45pm

  Will do thanks
  
  Gary RK said:

  What about adding it to Landscape Juice's Stolen Kit List ?
  
  http://www.landscapejuice.com/2010/02/garden-and-landscaping-equipm...
  
  Might raise visibility and help show hotspots etc ....
• 

  Jason Felstead September 17, 2010 at 7:44pm

  It P*****s me off when we wourk our balls off for some scumbag to come along and take our livley hood, Beats me how they sleep at night, Bring back hanging i say
• 

  Kieran Ray September 17, 2010 at 9:49pm

  I don't get why people do it! Being so blatant too! I feel for you! Is it one of the hydraulic type breakers? I guess there heavy too?!
• 

  The Perfumed Garden September 18, 2010 at 8:47am

  I'm sorry to hear this Mark - I know how you are feeling at the moment
  
  Simon
• PRO

  Phil Voice September 18, 2010 at 9:14am

  There aren't that many criminals who come with a conscience. To them it's a job and it carries rich rewards and apart from just a peculiar few, they remain detached from emotion.
  
  I also think that thieves consider businesses to be fair game and that they are carrying out victimless crimes because they think everyone's covered by insurance.
  
  The reality, as many of us have discovered first hand and what Jill, Simon and Mark have endured this week, is all too different. Forget the financial loss, the trauma can be severe but also the ongoing pressure as schedules are ruined and profit lost due to overruns and increased costs caused by the theft.
  
  Someone has to meet the police (if they choose to turn up) and fill in paperwork and make phone calls and it isn't easy being in two places at the same time.
  
  There has got to be an insurance company somewhere who can create an insurance policy that will offer the right cover?
  
  I am going to talk to Jasper, of Simply Business, next week and see if we can get someone of authority within one of the insurance companies they deal with to have a look at the two threads we have running currently and explore the possibility of providing the landscaping industry with a no-nonsense insurance policy that does what it says on the tin.
• 

  The Perfumed Garden September 18, 2010 at 9:28am

  I think this idea could be benificial to both parties.
  
  Philip Voice said:

  There aren't that many criminals who come with a conscience. To them it's a job and it carries rich rewards and apart from just a peculiar few, they remain detached from emotion.
  
  I also think that thieves consider businesses to be fair game and that they are carrying out victimless crimes because they think everyone's covered by insurance.
  
  The reality, as many of us have discovered first hand and what Jill, Simon and Mark have endured this week, is all too different. Forget the financial loss, the trauma can be severe but also the ongoing pressure as schedules are ruined and profit lost due to overruns and increased costs caused by the theft.
  
  Someone has to meet the police (if they choose to turn up) and fill in paperwork and make phone calls and it isn't easy being in two places at the same time.
  
  There has got to be an insurance company somewhere who can create an insurance policy that will offer the right cover?
  
  I am going to talk to Jasper, of Simply Business, next week and see if we can get someone of authority within one of the insurance companies they deal with to have a look at the two threads we have running currently and explore the possibility of providing the landscaping industry with a no-nonsense insurance policy that does what it says on the tin.
• 

  Lawncare-4u.co.uk September 18, 2010 at 8:47pm

  shame mate,
  
  i know how u feel i had a ifor trailer £1500 (cheap) brand new -plus side cages (£300)paid on a barclay card.
  or unpaid !##£1800 cheap
  matter of weeks in my new house and stolen from my drive , just stopped insurance too !.
  
  i think they lifted it ,or maybe towed past my jeep with another ..... maybe sold in spain.....
  
  - smashed back of jeep too and had 3 tools/bag worth £800 NFU insurance wriggled out of it .........
  
  total shit - still pay £120 p/year for tools in transit etc , but will never pay out in the day (not night anyway) unless u see the blighters ........... didnt they have jeans , white trainers and short hair , bball caps on ??