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Red neck door lock!!! LOL

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JD Seller

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This afternoon I shut the shop door going in and could not get back out. LOL A friend was on the outside and I was on the inside. We both thought the other was holding the door to fool with the other. LOL The actual door latch itself failed. The door knob will not pull it to open. Lucky that I was on the inside. I could raise the overhead door and get in or out. If I had been on the out side I would have had to cut the door hinges. No windows nor an outside door opener. I also have the hinge pins welded in. I was able to take the knob off from the inside and get the door open to remove the latch. I have a box of door latch parts left over from changing them over the years. This one is one of the longer ones and I did not have a single one that would work with the door knobs I am currently using. I want to keep the knobs as they are keyed to match several other buildings. So I will have to go to town tomorrow. So how do I keep the thieves out for tonight?????? Think this will work???? LOL
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Tom there is a steel plate under the knob that covers the latch and the door plus the frame are all steel. I have had thieves try and pry the frame apart but so far it has held. I have a pressure switch that activates a loud siren and strobe light. If you just pull the door hard against the latch it will go off. The shop is only a few hundred feet from two houses. So there is rarely anytime some one is not home. We have heard the siren activate but who ever it was ran off.
 
I wouldn't bother- locks only keep honest people out. If you've got something someone else really wants, they'll get in. Heck, they could just back right through that overhead door. Might as well limit the damage and leave it unlocked.
 
My brother got a call from convenience store to come and fix their front door lock,they told him the next day was fine. The manager spent the night sleeping on the floor at the front door,they never told him that they really needed it fixed now, not in the morning. He did ask why they did not park a car against the door and go home. She never thought about it.
 
At our old shop, about 10 years ago, it was in a somewhat high crime area.

There was a good bit of gang activity, one favorite MO was to crash a stolen car through the door and grab as much as they could and be gone.

We had a thin metal overhead door on the street side of the building, so we would back the fork lift weight up against the door every night.

Never had a break in, but what a surprise they would have gotten!
 
My walk-in shop door locked me out once. The overhead door has no remote either. The shop does have two windows but I didn’t want to mess with them so I had to break out the window in the attached store room and crawl through the window opening. The store room was a standard sized barn window so the loss wasn’t much. I am very fortunate to be in a low crime area so I don’t have to worry about barricading.
 
I see stuff like this all the time.
same thing as hanging an air compressor from a crane and putting the backhoe down onto a trailer for overnight.
an old man I knew years ago would use about ten 1/4" cords about two yards long to secure his front door.
 
Local Wal-Mart had a rear door that wouldn't lock. They paid off duty police officers to set there 24 seven for three days till the door people showed up.
 
Must be plenty of those innocent little ?dreamers? running around your area if you have to lock it down that tight.
 
I don't know about that every time there is a flood the blac-s steal every thing they can, just saying
 
(quoted from post at 16:42:19 04/08/18) At our old shop, about 10 years ago, it was in a somewhat high crime area.

There was a good bit of gang activity, one favorite MO was to crash a stolen car through the door and grab as much as they could and be gone.

We had a thin metal overhead door on the street side of the building, so we would back the fork lift weight up against the door every night.

Never had a break in, but what a surprise they would have gotten!
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Yeah, they probably would've gotten hurt from crashing into the forklift, sued you, and WON. That happens all the time. You can't booby trap your property.
 
I don't know that strategically placing a forklift relative to an overhead door would be considered a booby trap. But yes you can't do things that would be considered a booby trap such as electrifying a door knob or handle. It comes down to reasonable expectations and I would think that for most courts a thief would try to gain entry via forcing a door by hand versus crashing a door with a vehicle. Maybe I don't follow the modern thieving game enough to know that breaking a door with a pick up or with a backhoe is standard thieving procedure in current times.
 
I had that happen at my old shop. They broke in loaded two new snowplows into the back of my service truck loaded some tools, opened the shop door and drove out. I get a call from the police saying they found my truck stuck in a ditch in the country. They asked if I had just gotten stuck and was waiting to get it pulled out. They put it in drive and let it drive itself down the road into the snowbank. I informed the police that if they found my truck in the ditch that it had been stolen out of my shop. I went to the shop to find that they had jimmied the door open and stole the plows .Called the police and they came and looked around took a couple of notes and were ready to leave. They found the crowbar that they used to open the door with. I asked if they would dust for fingerprints and they told mne I watched too much TV. That only happens in the movies. Did get a call a couple weeks later asking for the serial numbers of the plows. They had found a person of interest with a new plow on his truck ,but the tag was missing so no solid evidence.
 
Years ago, in Denver, a guy booby trapped his door with a shotgun. A thief broke in and was shot but I can't remember if he died or not. Anyway, the state tried to prosecute him. Turns out, he had been robbed, like 10 or so times before.The jury refused to find him guilty.
 
Most of the chain stores no mater how big or small have service providers. That means they have a phone number to call and the provider finds some one to work on the problem. Most want you to fix the problem for pennies, and they want you to tell them what the problem is, and then they want to ship you the parts. You learn quick which one to charge a higher rate for labor. You have to learn which ones will pay with a credit card on the spot, and the ones that are going to pay in 180 days.(charge them more, and then add 18% late fees)
 
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