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  1. Andy Scott
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    10/16/2012 2:10 PM
    After another break-in and fuel theft, I am looking to secure my tanks again. The tanks are not in a great location, and above ground. I would like to move them, but that's no easy task. I am looking for ideas or share with me how the tanks are at your facility. Are they in an enclosed building away from your shop?

    Thanks



  2. Andy Jorgensen
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    10/16/2012 2:10 PM
    Andy,

    You really have no good location at the shop. We tried to get the club to get new tanks when we were there as well, but didn't really have another location to move them to. You'd think being right next to Hal Jones, the traffic would be deterrence enough. But in the late hours and early morning, the traffic to and from CCJ probably isn't all that great.....except for the drunks looking to steal gas.

    I don't think you could get away with putting them in a building, but have seen guys that put some serious heavy duty fencing around and over their tanks. Then keep it locked up inside the "cage" except for during business hours.

    Good luck. That shop sucked when we were there. No bathroom, flooded when it rained, too small for all the equipment...There should be some drawings floating around for the shop we were going to build at the end of the driving range....but they ended up building the pool house instead.



  3. Sean Hoolehan
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    10/16/2012 3:10 PM
    After 16 years of little or no problems last winter we started having our gas tanks raided regularly. Cut locks, used gravity to dispense fuel, once something happened and they took off leaving behind 2, 5 gal gas cans. We added lights and a camera and the cops caught their man. I think I spent about $5,000 to stop a couple of $100 petty gas thief. Its well known around here that we have the place under 24 observation, and as a side note I can look at the replay and see what my weekend and afternoon guys were doing, who took what out and who put what away.



  4. Melvin Waldron
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    10/16/2012 6:10 PM
    We have two 300 gallon farm tanks, we have a cover built over the ball valve and then it gets locked. We also put a fence around it, big enough to store equipment we can't get in the shop, and have installed video cameras. Not so much for the loss of gas, (which we lost also) but also because a tractor with front end loader and back hoe attachment got stolen about 3 years ago.

    Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  5. Terry Negen
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    10/16/2012 8:10 PM
    We have a photocell on the gas barrels and a timer on the pumps so that at a certain time of the day after everyone has gone home the pumps shut off and there is no power to them. The photocell is like a back up when it gets dark the pumps will not work, in 7 years we have never had a problem with people stealing gas and our shop sits by itself away from all other traffic.

    Terry Negen,Superintendent
    Atlantic Golf and Coutry Club
    Atlantic, IA



  6. Jackson Reiswig
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    10/17/2012 9:10 AM
    You could hire willie back to watch the tanks...



  7. Andy Scott
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    10/17/2012 10:10 AM
    Jackson, he said he would do it ONLY if he could sit on the tractor while on guard duty. I said no, so he's not gonna do it. Great idea though!



  8. Andy Jorgensen
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    10/17/2012 4:10 PM
    Jackson Reiswig said: You could hire willie back to watch the tanks...


    I like this idea. I bet he'd be happy sitting in his parking spot waxing his truck too.



  9. Jackson Reiswig
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    10/18/2012 4:10 AM
    He sleeps all throughout the days so his night time productivity would probably be through the roof...



  10. James Smith
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    10/18/2012 10:10 AM
    years ago when I move my tanks I wired in electric pumps and placed the only on/off switch in my office. It gets turned on every morning and off every night. I still have to lock the tanks up though because they may try to syphon it out.



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