Try Smith & Wesson ; ) If they are going to try hard enough to cut a chain, they will cut a cable as well. With the gas prices the way they are you might want to get a locking gas cap as well : )

You might be on to something. Maybe some super bike lock.Not the super one you can open w/ a pen either! ANd you would have to hook it to something that would be harder to saw. IE the guys that saw thru the steering wheel to remove the "Club" I locked up my buddy's ATV with heavy proof chain that required one of the hydraulic cutters to lob it off the roll when you buy it off the shelf. Buggers cut it twice just for fun. Good luck with that fortress you're gonna build this weekend...

my cousin dug a large hole in the ground and wound some "uncuttable" cable in it. then he filled it with a couple hundred pounds or so of concrete, leaving a few feet of cable sticking out. he would loop the cable around the axle of his boat trailer and secure it with one of those Masterlocks that has the hasp recessed to deter cutting. one day he lost the keys to the lock. i looked at it for a second, grabbed my bolt cutters, and cut the band clamp holding the loop in the end of the cable!

if theft is so rampant in your area, i would seriously consider locking the mower inside a garage or a very sturdy shed.

a friend had his trailer loaded with his mower, trimmers, and other lawn tools. he always backed it under his carport and parked his truck so that you could not get to teh trailer to haul it off. well one day he gets in from cutting grass and it was raining hard. so he pulls straight under the carport and decides he will turn it around after the rain quits. later on he forgets and goes to bed. next morning he gets up, goes outside and no trailer! he had a lock holding the trailer to the ball of the truck, but they simply unscrewed the ball and took trailer, ball and all!

if someone wants it bad enough, they WILL get it.

Best deterrent would probably be to chain a big mean junkyard dog next to it.

Course the way things are now if it bit someone trying to steal your tractor they would probably sue you and WIN.

The guys two houses over might take it just for spite..burn it or do something stupid but other than their "Im going to run 60 on a gravel road / I'll run in your yard to avoid a pot hole" which everyone on my road does,antics, I've never had anything stolen..but I did just pay 1800 for a mower and i'm alittle paranoid leaving it outside unattached to something..

I do have a 16'x16' 19' tall playroom / hobby building, its sitting on concrete block,but storing it in there would take up alot of room..

Thanks..

Get one of those motion sensitive flood lights. Cockroaches hate bright lights.

I wouldn't leave a new $1800 mower outside whether it would get stolen or not. The elements will quickly beat it down.

Put some French doors on your house and drive it into the living room. You could sit on it while watching the TV. Hey, that's a good idea. I might do that myself.

take the wheels off, If someone packs it off you don't want catch him anyway. You could get one of them cheap driveway alert sencing motion detectors. that way you should know when somebody crosses the line.

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" Get one of those motion sensitive flood lights. Cockroaches hate bright lights. " -heh heh- nice one

For about $28 you can buy a motion detector that is powered by a couple of AA cells. When something moves in its coverage area it sends a radio signal to a module that simply plugs into a wall outlet in your house. I think it has a 100' range. The module emits an adjustable series of beeps that will wake up the dead if set full loud.

A few weeks ago I had my mower and weed eater loaded on my trailer backed in under my carport up to the house where there is plenty of light. There is also a motion detector light out there. Well, about 3:45 a.m. the beeper went off. I got out of bed and went to the front door to see a guy untying my weed eater. I opened the front door and shouted at him and he sped off on a bicycle. Later I watched it all on our security video camera set-up. It was weird seeing the guy sneak up between our vans and go to work on my stuff.

I strongly recommend the motion detector beeper. I got mine at HD but I've seen them at Lowe's too. We're hoping to move soon but that thing is going where we go!!!

Ray

I had someone break into my garage, under a 20' high street lamp, by cutting a 3' $30 cable using my aviation snips, he took from a utility shed I leave unlocked. There's so much junk in their, I have no idea what they were looking for, hope they found it:) Try some of those 'claymore' mines. You will lose the mower, but it would be worth it :)

Well one night i saw a dim figure of a man sneaking up on my unlocked garage, saw from bedroom window, eased the window up and dumped a 12 gauge, 3" turkey shell load about 15 ft. from him into the ground. gravel flying everywhere. I wisp of a person leaving looked like superman when he flys by... LOL never ever happened again. But i am very rural, so a shot in the dark here doesnt raise a eyebrow.

If your yard is large enough to require a riding mower, you can put up a shed to protect it.

And not some thin sheet metal crappy thing, but use cement and cinder block at least for the first few feet up.

I don't see how someone can can not have a garage for all the tools!

***"I don't see how someone can not have a garage for all the tools!"****
What tools....?? I don't have any tools! archangel, you got some tools???? Where do you live??? Thanks for reviving this thread. I somehow missed the post by johninmd last year and probably would never have read it if not for you. I have read his post about a dozen times just now and I bust out laughing every time. My wife even came in here grinning wanting to know what's so funny. I let her read it and she sort of looked at it and read it a couple of times and then she busted out laughing too. Good stuff!

And still to this day i have had nothing come up missing, to borrow a term used here, i think this "cockroach" went back to the nest and spread the word to all the other little cockroaches, that if you go to that house, you might get poisoned, lead poison that is!.

But to add, i would never shoot someone stealing a tool of mine, causing me bodily harm, yes. A tool, no. And if i wasnt good with firearms, a long time hunter, and knew exactly where my lead was going to go, i would have never in the first place fired off a round near this guy.
But again, sure was fun seeing a blur of a human shape dissapear from sight in nothing flat.
Oh, and mownie, glad to bring a chuckle.

***"i would never shoot someone stealing a tool of mine"***
Well, you could be like the Amish man told a horse thief that he caught in the act, "Son, you know I cannot willfully harm one hair on your head, but you are standing in the exact spot I am about to shoot at."

***"I walked over and stole his bicycle"***
Is there a "penalty" for "stealing" an "already stolen" bicycle???? :^)

"walked over and stole his bicycle". Oh my gosh..that's the funniest thing I've ever heard!! Good for you!!!! So easy yet so effective!! :)

***"I walked over and stole his bicycle"***
**Is there a "penalty" for "stealing" an "already stolen" bicycle???? :^)**

Actually, yes, there is, it's the same as if they owned it.
Theft, as far as the law is concerned does not differentiate between, owned, borrowed, loaned, or stolen, if it's taken without consent of the possessor it's stolen.
However, if it turns out that it was stolen, and you can convince them that you had no intent of taking it for theft but to turn it over, (your character, as in not being like the shady guy that stole it, will will help you), things can change in the eyes of the law.

Also, as far as the "eyes of the law is concerned, if a drunk cop starts a fight with you, and he is 100% at fault, when the on duty cops show up, you will be lucky not to go to jail!

The best way to protect your tractor is to continue to let is sit out in the elements until it has turned into something no one wants to steal (shouldn't take long).

My theory has always been not to have the nicest car in the parking lot. If you can, park it next to the nicest car.

As with bicycles and tractors, one advantage to buying a "well used" tractor is that the roaches prefer shiny objects.