Be on your guard thieves are now at work!

[ossietim]

Had some festools stolen from my van at home.lost a CT mini,RO 125 feq ,C12 and 2 anniversary sustainers.
Really upset about the systainers  [mad]

Anyway just a friendly reminder to be careful and vigilant this time of year.

Ossietim.

 

[RONWEN]

Since it was at home shouldn't your home owner's insurance cover the loss for you?  That won't make you feel 100% right about it but at least you won't be out several hundreds of dollars.

Many years ago I was stationed at a satellite tracking station on a mountain in New Hampshire. We rented a place down in the town (no renter insurance) and someone decided they wanted my eight track tape player (Hey, I said it was a long time ago  [smile]) out of my VW Beetle.  They broke the vent window (remember vent windows? [unsure]), took the player and nothing else.  Probably the thing that upset me the most was eight tracks were at the end of their life cycle and I had dozens of tapes for it (which they left, their taste in music must have leaned toward Mozart  [unsure]).  I suffered the loss & moved on to cassette players.  [wink]

 

[mastercabman]

Since it was at home shouldn't your home owner's insurance cover the loss for you?  That won't make you feel 100% right about it but at least you won't be out several hundreds of dollars.

.....Then,go to your nearest German shepherd rescue and get yourself some protection! [laughing] [laughing] [laughing]
Believe me it works!

 

[RONWEN]

In my case I had fleeting thoughts of booby trapping another tape player with plastic explosives so when they plugged it in...    [mad] [scared] [eek]

 

[Timtool]

sorry about the bad news, be sure to check local ads ebay and craigs list type websites to see if any of it pops up. I doubt the thieves steal this to use it themselves. The good thing about festool is that you have the serial number on your warranty papers registered at your name.

 

[honeydoman]

homeowners does not cover business personal property and neither does the comp on the vehicle...  you might try it as a personal property, but that is kinda hard when they ask what you do and then they see your van...

you need to buy tool floater with replacement cost coverage... add to your liability coverage and usually does not run that much...  I was hit 5 years ago also right in my driveway  for 6 gran of tools....

 

[RONWEN]

homeowners does not cover business personal property and neither does the comp on the vehicle...  you might try it as a personal property, but that is kinda hard when they ask what you do and then they see your van...

you need to buy tool floater with replacement cost coverage... add to your liability coverage and usually does not run that much...  I was hit 5 years ago also right in my driveway  for 6 gran of tools....

Hopefully your tool floater was in effect before the thieves struck.

 

[Sean.M]

That sucks big time.
Keep searching Craigslist and Ebay
Maybe you will get lucky enough to have them end up in a local pawn shop.

 

[stairman]

First of all,  sorry to hear about your loss, Tim.  I ALMOST left my tools in my truck tonight, until I opened up the friendly neighborhood FOG forum and read this.  I am sitting here with all the outside lights on and front doors wide open, and every last systainer is coming in as soon as I finish and post this...  THEN!  as soon as the stacks are all sitting in the office, I am going to go through each case and double check that I have all the serial #'s not only recorded,  but REGISTERED as well.

There are a lot of good ideas here,  but guys,  keep in mind, Tim is far away on a different Continent,  and what works here in the US might not be how it goes in Oz,  right?

Festool in Europe offers a theft replacement program,  anyone know if there may be any such programs in Australia?

 

[Kev]

There's been an increase in second hand Festool items on Ebay Oz ... I've had a scheduled search delivered each day and there's more than there's been for several months.

Theft from tradespeople vehicles is on the increase in Oz ... my brother in law had a massive purpose built trailer with all of his tools stolen a while back ... they drove off with the lot.

I'd like to see some old school justice - wake up the people a bit!

 

[Kevin D.]

It's sad, but once you've discovered they are stolen, they are gone for good.

It's time to be proactive now to prevent future thefts.  Stop trying to look for your tools, that's a waste of your time.  Only an amateur would bring to the local pawn or cash converter type of place.

A second insurance claim within a few years for similar/same reasons is the true kick in the nuts.  You'll be refused that specific coverage or just simply be dropped and nobody will take you.

Like I said, get yourself better protected.  That's what being robbed is telling you more than anything else.

 

[Kev]

It's sad, but once you've discovered they are stolen, they are gone for good.

It's time to be proactive now to prevent future thefts.  Stop trying to look for your tools, that's a waste of your time.  Only an amateur would bring to the local pawn or cash converter type of place.

A second insurance claim within a few years for similar/same reasons is the true kick in the nuts.  You'll be refused that specific coverage or just simply be dropped and nobody will take you.

Like I said, get yourself better protected.  That's what being robbed is telling you more than anything else.

Funny true story ...

There's always someone at home at my place - pretty much night and day. Add to this, I'm a very light sleeper. A boyfriend of my daughter's came sneaking round one night ... I'd gone from asleep in bed to down the side of the house with a 12 inch blade in seconds. I've never seen eyes as wide open as his were - he was very lucky I made out his face in the dark!

So ... can you imagine what would happen if someone tried to get to my Festools ???

 

[yellowtruck75]

How do I register my tools?

 

[justinmcf]

I have been working in Australia for 14 years.
As a carpenter I never insured my tools.

Now that I am working as a builder, I have general building insurance, which covers public liability, product liability and my tools.
But if I ever have tools stolen, I would not claim on the insurance, as it will definitely increase my insurance costs in the future.

Sorry to hear about your loss Tim.
Did they steal the FOG systainers?

 

[ajones]

How do I register my tools?

Your dealer should have registered your tools for you when you bought them. you can check this by phoning festool and they will be able to confirm

 

[ossietim]

Thanks  guy's  but no biggy,i'm covered but, all the cover in the world won't stop someone who want's something.Remember to be a little more cautious this time of year.

No Justin not the fogtainers
these ones.
Lucky of got 34 more( [wink] Alex)

 

[upscale]

You're all wondering how to protect your tools. Has anyone considered some type of GPS tracking. GPS units are getting pretty small and cheap these days. One taped discretely at the bottom of a systainer might well go unnoticed beside a Domino for example ~ at least unnoticed long enough for you to track it down and administer some well deserved physical recovery.

 

[Tinker]

How do I register my tools?

Your dealer should have registered your tools for you when you bought them. you can check this by phoning festool and they will be able to confirm

I bought a leaf blower (Not Festoy) and by the time i got home, it had been lifted from the back of my truck.  I had no idea where it had gone.  Thirteen years later, i walked into my equipment dealers shop and the girl at the counter asked if i had ever owned a certain brand of leaf blower.  I did not think so.  She told me the name of a person who had brought a machine in for repair.  the serial # on the tool was the same as a machine i had bought 13 years ago.  The person's name was not familiar to me until i mentioned the episode to my wife.  She pronounced it a little differently and i remembered immediately that he had been a customer many years ago and i had probably been in his yard when the tool was "lost".  Since it was a homeowner, the tool had been hardly used. It still looked as new as when it had been "lost".  Turned out the only thing wrong was that gas had coagulated with only a good carb cleaning necessary.  I had actually dropped that customer at the end of that season years ago, but i ended up with an almost new leaf blower 13 years later.  as a matter of fact, i just winterized and put back into storage yesterday.
Tinker

 

[Kevin D.]

How do I register my tools?

Your dealer should have registered your tools for you when you bought them. you can check this by phoning festool and they will be able to confirm

I bought a leaf blower (Not Festoy) and by the time i got home, it had been lifted from the back of my truck.  I had no idea where it had gone.  Thirteen years later, i walked into my equipment dealers shop and the girl at the counter asked if i had ever owned a certain brand of leaf blower.  I did not think so.  She told me the name of a person who had brought a machine in for repair.  the serial # on the tool was the same as a machine i had bought 13 years ago.  The person's name was not familiar to me until i mentioned the episode to my wife.  She pronounced it a little differently and i remembered immediately that he had been a customer many years ago and i had probably been in his yard when the tool was "lost".  Since it was a homeowner, the tool had been hardly used. It still looked as new as when it had been "lost".  Turned out the only thing wrong was that gas had coagulated with only a good carb cleaning necessary.  I had actually dropped that customer at the end of that season years ago, but i ended up with an almost new leaf blower 13 years later.  as a matter of fact, i just winterized and put back into storage yesterday.
Tinker

Now that's cool.  I guess it was beyond a statute of limitations in having him charged?  What a scoundrel.  I'm sure you would have loved to see to look on his face when he was told he wasn't getting it back.

 

[durango]

Now that is a great recovery, even if prosecution wasn't possible.  Still waiting for some official Festool information on their "stolen registry" as was discussed in another thread.
Wonder how a Festool dealer handles a similar situation?