Oil tank security

bobhawke

Not much good having an alarm or padlock fitted. Thieves will just drill through your tank and drain it.

WhiteHorse

welda wrote: »

Maintenance free and, last a lifetime, plus a tea leaf would require a crane to lift oil in tank, I'm sure the noise would alert those around and, with such a huge vehicle, no danger of not capturing images via cctv.

True-life story ...

At 1 o'clock in the morning, thieves used a crane to load sheets of steel onto a flatbed truck. The truck was in full view in the high street, under street lights and in full view of CCTV.

No-one took any notice (there were occupied bedrooms only yards away), and the police weren't interested.

bobhawke

WhiteHorse wrote: »

True-life story ...

At 1 o'clock in the morning, thieves used a crane to load sheets of steel onto a flatbed truck. The truck was in full view in the high street, under street lights and in full view of CCTV.

No-one took any notice (there were occupied bedrooms only yards away), and the police weren't interested.

Just wear a high vis vest + hard hat and people assume you are meant to be there and know what you are doing.

welda

Well thats it then, don't lock house or car doors, stick up a HUGE sign "PLEASE NICK MY HEATING OIL" let the pond life take over, remembering to leave oil tank lock keys, just in case the pondies drill a hole, ah but, insurance will replace and pay, then the whole scenario rolls on............................

Secure your belongings best you can, install cctv, but please remember to have proper signs in place to warn the pondies their images will be recorded for crime purposes and, if the police do nowt, take your complaint to the next level. Remember it is your 24/7 cctv recording, not a council run cctv, which will possibly be set in a fixed position because there is no more money to have bods operate system, thus missing capturing crime in progress?

:beer: and trying to remain optimistic living on this island

freddielaker

I have a Titain tank and you can fit a paddlock to the filler cap, although they would proberbley just take the whole tank!!!
1000L just cost me £570.00, painful!!

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daffyduckegg

:mad: All the gadgets to prevent oil theft do not stop theives, really what products thats on offer are quite useless, they can only put them off having a go robbing your winter fuel store.

Thieves by nature want easy targets, they want to be quick and fast to do the dirty deed, they don't care about doing any damage to your property; they will do some local searching to identify their next target -the rotters.

Bolt cutters will easily remove most pad locked fillers caps, though you can get locks that protect the steel loops from bolt cutters these days.

There's 4 ways to access an oil tank, 5 if you want to drill a hole through the wall of the tank: the bottom drain cap - only a spanner is needed here [steel tank]!; the top air vent; top filler cap; gauge level or inlet pipe. You are wondering - How much can you afford to spend on locks as most cost around £50-80 each, and most access points are not covered?

I'm decided to put ducting tape over all over my steel tank access points and slap messy thick greese over the tape as a useful DIY cheap deterent. Planting some thorny plants near the bottom drain cap, fixing some barbed wire around it and the inlent pipe will delay access and will hopefully cut thieving fingers in limelight conditions.

:cool: A good tall thorny boundry hedge nearby and gravel drive will create a lot of foot noise combined with a good low level light PIR sensor switch will alert unwelcome visitors.

The top filler cap may justify a good lock since its used often, but i have not yet seen a design that prevents bolt cutter access and are unsuitable for purpose, so barbed wire will have to do?

Mister_G

daffyduckegg wrote: »

:mad: All the gadgets to prevent oil theft do not stop theives, really what products thats on offer are quite useless, they can only put them off having a go robbing your winter fuel store.

Thieves by nature want easy targets, they want to be quick and fast to do the dirty deed, they don't care about doing any damage to your property; they will do some local searching to identify their next target -the rotters.

Bolt cutters will easily remove most pad locked fillers caps, though you can get locks that protect the steel loops from bolt cutters these days.

There's 4 ways to access an oil tank, 5 if you want to drill a hole through the wall of the tank: the bottom drain cap - only a spanner is needed here [steel tank]!; the top air vent; top filler cap; gauge level or inlet pipe. You are wondering - How much can you afford to spend on locks as most cost around £50-80 each, and most access points are not covered?

I'm decided to put ducting tape over all over my steel tank access points and slap messy thick greese over the tape as a useful DIY cheap deterent. Planting some thorny plants near the bottom drain cap, fixing some barbed wire around it and the inlent pipe will delay access and will hopefully cut thieving fingers in limelight conditions.

:cool: A good tall thorny boundry hedge nearby and gravel drive will create a lot of foot noise combined with a good low level light PIR sensor switch will alert unwelcome visitors.

The top filler cap may justify a good lock since its used often, but i have not yet seen a design that prevents bolt cutter access and are unsuitable for purpose, so barbed wire will have to do?

Ah! that's one advantage of expensive LPG!

crazyguy

Solution here,

smcqis

just get a pound padlock