Mini excavator security

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AusDave

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With a machine that size you could take it home every night and park it in the lounge room :)
After you clean any muck off it of course.
 
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Colgan

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Thanks for all the reply. A secret switch or immobilisers sounds like a very good option.
@V8Druid I have read previous posts you've made about Hella, I'll be honest and say I don't understand at all what you are referring to, can you point me in the direction of resource to understand what/how this arrangement works?

I've bought the machine to solely work on my personal house renovation/extension project. When not operating she'll be parked in the back garden only accessed via side access, therefore should anyone want to pinch her they'll need to start her.

I mentioned calling Automatrics. All their current tracker are sold out, they will be bringing a new model to market ~summertime, however they have a number of recondition current model trackers for sale. From looking at the videos on youtube they seem to be a great tracking devise should your car/truck/machine be stolen.
 
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Brendan

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Thanks for all the reply. A secret switch or immobilisers sounds like a very good option.
@V8Druid I have read previous posts you've made about Hella, I'll be honest and say I don't understand at all what you are referring to, can you point me in the direction of resource to understand what/how this arrangement works?

I've bought the machine to solely work on my personal house renovation/extension project. When not operating she'll be parked in the back garden only accessed via side access, therefore should anyone want to pinch her they'll need to start her.

I mentioned calling Automatrics. All their current tracker are sold out, they will be bringing a new model to market ~summertime, however they have a number of recondition current model trackers for sale. From looking at the videos on youtube they seem to be a great tracking devise should your car/truck/machine be stolen.
If it's always going to be at your house, leave it in the back garden and make access as hard as possible, if it's just access via a small side gate park a car in front of it. Be better off having decent insurance.
Trackers are hit and miss and not many places to hide them on small machines.
 
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Colgan

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Trackers are hit and miss and not many places to hide them on small machines.
Exactly this, I hadn't thought of this initially until I spoke with Automatrics; their tracker unit is ~6" x 2". I imagine there are few places in a micro machine where you could hide a device that size.
 
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Gecko

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This one doesn't operate on GSM bands useful to me, so I've not seen one in the flesh, but it's obviously meant to be hidden in plain sight

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(it will of course be sending all your locations back to china - if you care)
 
William127

William127

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WTF did he not pull into the junction tighter to stop the van trying to escape FFS :(
Sat at traffic lights on a dual carriage way the other day, lovely golf r32 pulls across both lanes, couple jump out, bloke runs down between both lanes. The woman says 'our mates cars been stolen and its in the traffic behind you'!!
Not sure what the outcome was but these are the kinds of friends you need👍👍👍
 

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