My Tools, Welders, Air tools etc Great Barr, Birmingham

[colt1982]

Last night about 1.20am I heard a bang, thinking it was just thunder I ignored it. About 15 minutes later the feral cat that lives in my garage jumped the fence so I knew straight away someone had let it out. I run down to my garage and found my big double doors had been lifted off the hinges and most of my tools had gone.

They took a Clarke 130en mig welder, wizarc arc welder, seco palm air sander, national detroit air sander and another da sander but I cant remember the name. A silverline grinder, a einhell drill in red, air line to pump up tyres, air hole punch and joggler in new condition, a yokota impact gun, more electic sanders. a draper 42 piece socket set. There is probably more but I cant really see yet as they have messed up everything searching for stuff.

All this is from the Great Barr area of Birmingham. If anyone gets offered a any of these tools very cheap near here or sees a yokota impact gun in somewhere like cash converters can you please let me know so I can pass the information onto the police.

Thanks George

[Mercdan68]

George I'm gutted and annoyed as I'm sure you are, had the same sort of incident a few years ago, although the house insurance paid out, I'm still pi&&ed off to thus day losing stuff my dad had given me, hope you have some luck getting your tools back, atb Dan

[foldy]

Sorry to hear that mate. All I can say is that I hope they get caught and you get your stuff back.

[PandaSelecta]

Get down to the local car boot sale, and get there early, as chances are they will want rid quickly. Also take a couple of mates with you, in case you find the bits and need backup

[Needmoretime]

Sad news scum bags, also check gumtree

[hamps]

Scumbags I know how this feels too!!! Really feel for you mate.

Apparently police found a lot of stuff from van thefts somewhere on that new site "shpock" the local bootsale app for selling stuff in your area, might be worth checking the out too.

[fordperv]

That's crappy, You got any travellers camped near by?

[colt1982]

Theres no travellers etc nearby that I know of. A few more tools missing are a dremel, a breaker bar, laser torx bit set, small stanley socket set, powercraft air chisel, air ratchet.
It looks like they were working along the shelves but were then scared off. They was a wooden pole on the floor by the door, so I think they lifted the doors off the hinges and used the pole to prop the door up. Then this has fallen causing the doors to drop down which caused the loud bang that I thought was thunder. As soon as I heard it I turned my bedroom light on so I think they thought they had been caught and done a runner. If it wasnt for this I think they probably would have taken a lot more. The police come to look for finger prints but said they could not find any so it looks like my only hope is spotting something for sale.

[93fxdl]

Would advise uprating security,, since they know what you have its quite likely they will be back, since they came equipped to break in, there's a fair chance they had prior info on what you had and how secure it was. CCTV seems to be almost the only way of getting a conviction, but a shotgun alarm is probably a better way of letting you know somethings going on
Ttfn Glenn

[MiniDan]

Gutted I'm local to you so will keep an eye out.

Hope something turns up for you.