halfdome, Danny wrote:Hey! I don't want to be the only one without a rail saw I think I'll order one today, it's only a thousand dollars. Danny
We're talking about the determined thief here, go big or go home.
Seriously though the saws aren't uncommon, at least around here. Welders, plumbers, pipe fitters, rail crews (obviously), concrete workers, rebar installers, pipeline workers, tow truck drivers, scrappers, bodyshops etc. etc. have them. They are immensely useful in some trades. And you can get basically the same lock busting capability with a $50 4.5-5" angle grinder and some cut off disks, you just need somewhere to plug them in.
A former employer had on two seperate occasions 2 skidoos on a trailer stolen. Both times the thieves just cut right through a) the lock on the yard gate, b) the Grade 70 chain securing the wheels and c) the coupler lock. The second time they also cut the lock out of the man door to the garage the trailer was parked in. The cops figured it took them less than 10 minutes to be motoring down the road.
You want to take steps to discourage the casual thieves but it's not worth getting an ulcer over every possible theft vector.
Commandant Louis Joseph Lahure has a singular distinction in military history - he defeated a navy on horseback. Occupying Holland in January 1795, the French continental army learned that the mighty Dutch navy had been frozen into the ice around Texel Island. So Lahure and 128 men simply rode up to it and demanded surrender. No shots were fired.