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RobnCari
Groupie Joined: 18 Sep 2017 Location: S. Wisconsin Online Status: Offline Posts: 42 |
Topic: Anti theft devices Posted: 26 Oct 2017 at 1:27am |
Ball locks, remove the wheels, chain the axle to a large tree or post. Personally I just use the ball lock. Maybe I'll do more when I get my brand new R-Pod next month. And it will be stored at home.
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mcarter
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 6:19pm |
Can't disagree with see something, say something. Lot of police stuff has to do with jurisdiction. Where I live, the city police will not respond, the county sheriff will. I'm not worried about stealing the Pod, there are no chop shops for travel trailers, to my knowledge. They will steal grab and go items like your BBQ grill or fishing poles or a portable generator, because it is easy to pawn or sell. Saying that I do lock my cargo trailers, they do steal those because it's easy and hard to trace. I learned in gun license class, that I can't defend theft on my property because I am not in in imminent danger. Because of my background I have a tendency to watch people, without profiling.
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Mike Carter
2015 178 " I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability." |
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 1:30pm |
Yes, locks, cables, chains and such deter the lazy thief, but someone who is determined to take your stuff will not be stopped by locks.
Sounds like Happy did the right thing calling the cops on suspicious activity. Even standing there watching them, especially with a cell phone obviously in hand, can help dissuade a thief. In some communities the police have the resources to respond to suspicious activity calls while others, they just don't have the manpower and won't go unless there is someone bleeding.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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Happy Tripping
Senior Member Joined: 27 May 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 473 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 9:34am |
R-Pods are NOT an attractive 'target' for thieves, not expensive enough. However, we just got back from a trip to an out of the way spot. When we arrived at mid-day, there was only one big trailer already there, whose owners were obviously out and probably gone for the day, and also a small car filled with people slowly going thru the campground. After we set up, after awhile the same car came thru slowly, again, watching us as they went by. I called the cops. I am sure we interrupted a pass-by 'smash and grab' break-in of the fancy trailer. So, re hitch locks, ... 'An ounce of prevention' ... or ... 'Better safe than sorry'
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6326 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 9:14am |
I don't think it is a problem locally. When we were in Savannah, Georgia, the boy scouts had their trailer with all their camping gear stolen. We donated most of our tenting gear to help them recover from that theft. We had gotten to the point where we were no longer able to deal with tent camping easily anyway. When I wanted to get a camping trailer, I decided that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Thus, I decided to put locks on things, not to stop a determined thief, but to make it less convenient and hopefully, deter the casual thief.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 8:18am |
Thanks furpod. I guess where we live, it's a little more like the days before crystal meth and oxycodone where you don't need to fasten everything down. Most of our neighbors who have trailers store them in the driveways and, sometimes on the street, if they have space. And the storage places around these parts are filled with RV's. Maybe there are so many, that it's not worth the bother to steal stuff from them.
We're lucky in that we have a big side yard behind a gate. I just squeeze the pod through the gate and she sits at the side of the house behind a gate. I leave the tanks and batteries secured because there's no point in taking the locks off and I keep the padlock on the ball locking mechanism because I don't want to forget where I put it when I need it.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2017 at 7:41am |
It's not so much an issue while camping, though I do know of at least a couple trailers that have come up missing from remote campgrounds. Most trailer thefts happen while in storage, or from the owners driveway. It's not a problem for Pods, any more then any other marque. Vintage campers come up missing more often then they should. We have seen many reports of vintage Airstreams coming up missing over in our VAS group.
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595 |
Posted: 24 Oct 2017 at 10:23pm |
Where all you folks camp is theft really that big a problem? Out west in NV and CA, at least in the north end, it just doesn't seem to be that big a deal. I use a padlock on the ball locking device, as much for safety as security, and wrapped a chain around the two battery boxes and the gas tank with a couple of locks, but it is more for appearance than actual security. A bold cutter would go through the chain in a millisecond. The padlock on the hitch ball lock might take a couple minutes to cut. But, then most of our trips are to Sierra Nevada campgrounds where anyone can pretty much steal anything he or she wants just wandering through a camp ground.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6326 |
Posted: 24 Oct 2017 at 4:36pm |
I have considered a single box, but when I look at the price, I can't bring myself to spend that kind of money when the two boxes work adequately.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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NAP1947
Groupie Joined: 14 Aug 2017 Location: Ottawa, Canada Online Status: Offline Posts: 72 |
Posted: 24 Oct 2017 at 1:29pm |
The version 2 battery lock is much simpler to use, sort of what I thought of but using a cable.
I do not plan to put a lock on the spare simply a bolt and nyloc nut, I assume the spare itself has a locking wheel nut to match the Road wheels. Stephen, did you consider a single double battery box instead of the 2 separate?
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Susan and Norm
2016 Venza, V6 factory tow 2018 RP179 |
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