I hate thieves !

Also, I lost a Ford 5000 diesel tractor to thieves a few years back---never heard from it again. Local police were of no help. we are on our own!!

I'm not sure what protocol is here for starting a new thread, but I seem to be in the same boat Psycho. I'm working on an EX 100 - 5E. The owner called me out because the machine had boom issues. He would release the joystick and the boom would continue to raise. Long story short, after all pilot issues were found to be normal I opened up the boom valve section to find a bad spool and badly scarred sleeve. I pulled the valve stack and sent it out to be re-worked. The sleeve was oversized and a new larger spool was chromed and ground to fit. I have it all back together and the boom, along with all other functions work great . . . . . except the swing brake. Swing either way and stop on a hillside of any type and the boom heads whatever direction gravity wants it to. Push the pilot lever forward and the brake sets. There is a square cartridge manifold mounted to the side of the swing motor which I assume to be the control valves for the brake. There are two pilot hoses coming from the top of this manifold. One goes to a port in the end of the valve stack, the other to a solenoid valve mounted adjacent to the valve stack. I tee'd a gauge into each of those two lines and found that the line coming from the valve stack has full pilot pressure whenever the pilot lever is accuated. Is this right? It seems I should only see pilot pressure there when the swing valve is shifted. Any chance a plug was left out somewhere inside the valve stack when the work was done? I have years of hydraulic experience but this is a machine I'm not that familiar with . . . it's gray market . . . and I don't have a manual. Any help would sure be appreciated.

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Alex.

The police here are completely useless when it comes to industrial theft. We have had police get in gunfights when chasing a Walmart shoplifter but when I had a $2500.00 laser stolen off a tripod in the middle of the day in a residential neighborhood with houses all around within 100 feet, I could not convince the officer to walk to a house and knock on a door. He absolutely refused to get out of his car even. He just kept asking me if we had insurance, and filled out a report.

Looks like we need to do like the Rail Road.Put a tracking device on everything.During Hurricane Ike people were stealing generators off R/R Crossings.But the R/R police knew where they were all the time.Told a County Deputy not to worry about it because it was their job to get the thieves.

Theives ripped our jumping jack, chop saws and a bunch of other stuff out of the work van we had on the jobsite. Fuel is constantly being ripped off from jobsites and residential fuel tanks, neighbors house got jacked on a sunday afternoon and other neighbor had a 45 pistol ripped from his rig just a few weeks ago. Oxy, meth, crackhead worthless pieces os. Cops do little or nothing unless your jaywalking or having a 2 beer limit after work, before dinner at the local pub.

A friend of mine has a battery operated game video camera he uses behind his house. Motion detected so only records when there is movement and clear enough to read a face. Only cost a few hundred bucks and works in cold weather. Would be great for theives.. If you have power on the site similar ones can be bought just like stores have and are very effective. My friend has one in his house he can check from his I phone no matter where he is. Records movement also.

Something has to be done cause it is only getting worse as our economy dies, illigal immigrants invade our country and our leader gives his followers no incentive to work for what they own..

2stickbill said:

Looks like we need to do like the Rail Road.Put a tracking device on everything.During Hurricane Ike people were stealing generators off R/R Crossings.But the R/R police knew where they were all the time.Told a County Deputy not to worry about it because it was their job to get the thieves.

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Hey no doubt ...Ask my cousin who decide to steal an old bundle of ties that had been sittin for 2 years ...Them Railroad police don't play ..

I was doing a house demo and finished for the day so i parked the machine on all the scrap. when i came in the next day some very determined theives had sawzalled all along my tracks so all i got for scrap was what was under my tracks!!!!

vawilson, thats funny, I have had the same thing happen here several times. Short of posting gaurds or just staying on site, It feels like nothing is safe these days.

vawilson said:

I was doing a house demo and finished for the day so i parked the machine on all the scrap. when i came in the next day some very determined theives had sawzalled all along my tracks so all i got for scrap was what was under my tracks!!!!

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Yikes, I'd be feeling lucky that they didn't cut my tracks off too.......

i was suprised they didnt take my batteries and my radiators !!!!! im glad it was a small job and we were only there for a couple of days. every time i have to leave my bigger equipment on any jobs for any length of time i get neverous . we stripped out a animal rendering plant and was supprised how much stuff was stolen every nite. we had to leave the scrap in huge pieces so they couldnt carry it away .

Our son had his catalytic converter cut out of his Toyota Tacoma at an REI store in the middle of the day. He was in the store for only 20 minutes. He spent 20 years in Special Forces so I'm glad he didn't catch them in the act.

they were going to dealerships at nite and taking all the converters they could do in a nite

a couple years ago we had a brand new bobcat and trailer stole never seen again insurance replaced them immediately as they figured it would never be found anyway

tang867 said:

Also, I lost a Ford 5000 diesel tractor to thieves a few years back---never heard from it again. Local police were of no help. we are on our own!!

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There in no Revenue in catching thieves.It cost money but a ticket for speeding etc now that brings in money.So if you steal don't speed and you will not get caught.

The thieves here are brave and stupid.Stealing copper wire from Substations of the Power Company.A local Ford Dealership had the tires and wheels stole of several new vehicles.

same here a local dealership just had an ad and video on crime stoppers ther sick of wheels and tires going missing off new vehicles thieves are idiots showed ther truck clear as day on the surveilance good thing ther was snow covering ther license plate or theyd a been caught even sooner :Banghead

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The thieves here are brave and stupid.Stealing copper wire from Substations of the Power Company.A local Ford Dealership had the tires and wheels stole of several new vehicles.

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We were out salting for the City of Indianapolis 2 weeks ago & they had to bring cops in & guard the salt piles. we pulled up to get our first load & they had already stolen about 10 tons. We had people walking over filling coolers, trash bags & one guy even shoveled his pick up half full.

Chap here in the South West of England had a dozer stolen over the weekend a while ago, nearly new as well, monday morning they found it gone, rang the tracker company, it was found on a truck 300mls short of the border into Russia, in Poland.
lnterpol got the local police to stop it, and he now has it back

It sucks when you work hard and honestly at something just to have some lazy no work ethic person steal it from under you. God is watching though, they won't get away that easy. One way or another it will come back and bite them.