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View Poll Results: Were your WDH bars ever stolen when left unsecured?
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11-05-2018, 10:10 AM
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#21
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Richmond VA
Posts: 4,554
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If you think there's risk secure them. Who cares if anyone has ever had them stolen (or moved as a prank)?
-- Chuck
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11-05-2018, 02:22 PM
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#22
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Pockets
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 137
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I just put the bars over the A frame behind the receiver and the anti sway bar on top of the battery cover which is behind the propane bottle cover
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11-05-2018, 03:52 PM
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#23
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 1,022
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I just lay them across the battery boxes. They are there when I'm ready to hook up, a simple storage. If someone is going to invade your campsite to steal them, either they are totally desperate, or you're in a campground you shouldn't be in.
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11-05-2018, 04:43 PM
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#24
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Texas
Posts: 781
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While I don't want ANYTHING stolen, there are things I can lose, be angry & keep moving along ( lawn chairs, grill, bicycles ). Then there are things that will bring the trip to a grinding stop. Those bars would be one of those things. Won't risk it. I lock them up.
Tuckerdog1
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11-05-2018, 05:58 PM
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#25
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Posts: 3,882
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Springerdad
If someone is going to invade your campsite to steal them, either they are totally desperate, or you're in a campground you shouldn't be in.
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Then camping may not be for you...
Because you just can't always just know what campground will be the one...
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11-05-2018, 06:10 PM
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#26
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: ALASKA (World's Biggest Campground)
Posts: 6,720
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Never had my bars stolen, but my mantra is "leave nothing to chance".
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11-05-2018, 08:56 PM
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#27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 280
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Quote:
Originally Posted by youroo
No to stolen Bars,BUT the Low Lifes did Steal all the Military Bronze Flag Holders from our Local Cemetery!  They also steal Items from the Alters inside Churches , Nothing is SAFE!  Youroo!! |
Low life grave robbers stole the brass flower holders three times at the local graveyard where my ex-wife is buried. So I suggested they replace them with plastic ones which they did. The butt holes stole those too!
But back to the topic, I lock them up in the outside storage cubby when not in use. I also have a locking cables on my spare tire, the support thingy for the bottom step of the folding entrance steps and the two cones that mark the corners of my storage yard space.
Yes, I am paranoid. Someone once stole some scrap pieces of lumber I use to support the jack stands under my boat!
There's no hope for human kind.
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11-06-2018, 11:43 AM
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#28
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Posts: 3,882
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I also have a cable lock around both of my 30LB propane tanks as the cabinet where they are located on my 5'ver isn't locked (against the law), and when I had TT's I also had those locked to the tongue of the trailer as well.
I also cable locked the batteries to the frame of the TT's...
Better safe than sorry...
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11-07-2018, 08:33 AM
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#29
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: austinburg ohio
Posts: 821
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Locks are for honest people and I try to never leave anything out for it to be stolen. I store my bars in the back of my covered pickup bed never leave them out for others to see
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11-07-2018, 08:55 AM
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#30
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Posts: 3,882
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Locks are for honest people...
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Maybe, but not necessarily...
Often thieves will move on to your neighbor when they see locks on something...
The neighbor who doesn't have locks on their stuff and leaves it out in the open, which makes for a quicker and quieter getaway!
Often theft is a crime of opportunity and not all thieves carry around the proper tools to get through those cables and locks.
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11-07-2018, 08:57 AM
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#31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Chatham County, NC
Posts: 121
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I voted Yes. My bars were not stolen but someone stole the hitch off the truck. So part of it was stolen.
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2018 Nights camped (29) that's too low. Must work on it.
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11-07-2018, 08:59 AM
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#32
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Posts: 3,882
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Quote:
Originally Posted by maskins
I voted Yes. My bars were not stolen but someone stole the hitch off the truck. So part of it was stolen.
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I'll bet you now have a hitch lock...
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11-07-2018, 09:02 AM
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#33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Chatham County, NC
Posts: 121
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnD10
I'll bet you now have a hitch lock...
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Yup got one of these, Bolt Lock, so I don't have to carry another key around.
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2017 Wildcat 327RE
2005 Chevy Silverado
2016 Nights camped in wildcat(14) didn't count previous trailer
2017 Nights camped (44)
2018 Nights camped (29) that's too low. Must work on it.
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11-07-2018, 09:28 AM
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#34
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Trailer Park Supervisor
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Northern NJ
Posts: 8,580
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maskins, what location was your hitch stolen from? Campground, commercial/public property, or private property?
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11-07-2018, 09:34 AM
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#35
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Chatham County, NC
Posts: 121
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Walmart parking lot I think. I was at home when I noticed it was missing and Walmart was the only place I went.
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2017 Wildcat 327RE
2005 Chevy Silverado
2016 Nights camped in wildcat(14) didn't count previous trailer
2017 Nights camped (44)
2018 Nights camped (29) that's too low. Must work on it.
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11-07-2018, 09:50 AM
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#36
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Trailer Park Supervisor
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Northern NJ
Posts: 8,580
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Figures. Some real dregs hang out in those commercial parking lots just looking for low hanging fruit. It must have gotten pretty bad at my local Walmart, NOT in an urban area either, for the PD to put up a mobile video monitoring station on a big mast. So that's two thefts so far, both from commercial establishment parking lots.
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11-07-2018, 10:13 AM
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#37
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
Posts: 3,882
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NJKris
Figures. Some real dregs hang out in those commercial parking lots just looking for low hanging fruit. It must have gotten pretty bad at my local Walmart, NOT in an urban area either, for the PD to put up a mobile video monitoring station on a big mast. So that's two thefts so far, both from commercial establishment parking lots.
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That all started last fall after the shooting inside the Thornton, Colorado Walmart (ironically I was on my way to that store when the shooting occured). Those things went up there that night and popped up at almost all of the Denver area Walmarts within a few days and since I left Denver in March I've seen those at almost every big city Walmart store.
Here in Yuma, AZ or the San Luis, AZ Walmart (about 500 feet from the border wall)...none of them have these monitors!
I took this shot about a week ago down at San Luis just after leaving that Walmart:
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11-07-2018, 10:19 AM
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#38
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Trailer Park Supervisor
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Northern NJ
Posts: 8,580
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Nice pic!
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2019 Rockwood Geo Pro G19FD w/off road package
2015 Ford F150 XLT Super Cab 4x4 V8
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11-07-2018, 10:31 AM
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#39
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 334
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Quote:
Originally Posted by maskins
I voted Yes. My bars were not stolen but someone stole the hitch off the truck. So part of it was stolen.
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I figured the hitch was more likely to be stolen. When not towing, I always remove my hitch. Yes, even after I unhook at a campground. Pain in the butt, or rather the back, but I haven't gotten around to getting a lock. Also, I prefer it not to drag when I go through dips like leaving parking lots etc.
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11-07-2018, 10:38 AM
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#40
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Chatham County, NC
Posts: 121
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joeuncool
I figured the hitch was more likely to be stolen. When not towing, I always remove my hitch. Yes, even after I unhook at a campground. Pain in the butt, or rather the back, but I haven't gotten around to getting a lock. Also, I prefer it not to drag when I go through dips like leaving parking lots etc.
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Leaving it on is pain in the shin. so I guess you have to pick your pain.
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2017 Wildcat 327RE
2005 Chevy Silverado
2016 Nights camped in wildcat(14) didn't count previous trailer
2017 Nights camped (44)
2018 Nights camped (29) that's too low. Must work on it.
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