There are a couple stories this week about fence material being stolen and sold for scrap. It begs the question, if a fence is meant to secure something, how do secure the fence?
I know this is a serious issue, with the price of scrap metal at all times high. Have you been a victim of theft of materials? What type of preventive measures have you taken?
Let us know.
3 comments:
We have not had any issues yet of this nature. We also don't leave expensive materials lying around on jobsites not having installation crews yet.
Keith Bloemendaal
http://thefencepost.wordpress.com
www.carolinacustomfence.com
We did a large parking lot with stockade on steel posts. Over one week end someone came into the lot and stole all the panels. They left the posts. The security people thought that we were changing the material, so they didn't question it.
I can remember a few years back when I was working for a Fence Company on LI, where the yard was well stocked of materials. One day we noticed that someone had cut the wire to our fence and had taken over 1800' of 4' black wire from the back side. We always kept a stock of 5000' or more, so from the face it wasn't noticable, nor did the cameras pick it up. We then attached b-decking to the existing chainlink so that it wouldn't happen again.
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