Locking Bar for my shed.

[Fazed]

I had a new shed a few weeks ago and have been looking at ways of keeping the scrotes out of it.
Knocked this up last weekend out of some offcuts of 30mm and 40mm box and a motorcycle D-lock.

The hinge end.
I cut an angle on the box to allow the shed door to open past 90 degrees:

The business end.
I drilled through the box section and migged some tube through it for the shackle to pass through. Trying to keep it a snug fit so less gaps for wrecker bars to be slipped in:

End product:

Drilled through the shed internal frame and bolted up with M8 coachbolts, massive penny washers, and nylocs.
Just gave it a couple of coats of Aldi silver metal paint.
This is an awful picture because it was sunny... I was in the shade... my camera is @rse :

Nice easy little job really. Took a couple of hours to knock up - including headscratching, measuring, and sort of making it up as I went along.

 

[brightspark]

I had a new shed a few weeks ago and have been looking at ways of keeping the scrotes out of it.
Knocked this up last weekend out of some offcuts of 30mm and 40mm box and a motorcycle D-lock.

The hinge end.
I cut an angle on the box to allow the shed door to open past 90 degrees:

The business end.
I drilled through the box section and migged some tube through it for the shackle to pass through. Trying to keep it a snug fit so less gaps for wrecker bars to be slipped in:

End product:

Drilled through the shed internal frame and bolted up with M8 coachbolts, massive penny washers, and nylocs.
Just gave it a couple of coats of Aldi silver metal paint.
This is an awful picture because it was sunny... I was in the shade... my camera is @rse :

Nice easy little job really. Took a couple of hours to knock up - including headscratching, measuring, and sort of making it up as I went along.

looks good take no notice of all the posts that would of followed making it bombproof and all the stupid sugestions of rigging boobytraps up all that will do is p,.,.s the bandits off and they take it out on your car or property to get there own back ./ take it from me ive had it done to me

 

[chunkolini]

If I was a tea leaf I would undo the screws on the hinges with my Swiss Army knife and pull the door off from the bottom.
I had similar hinges on my workshop, after three years I got round to putting coach bolts in instead of screws and welding the bolts to the hinges big washers on the inside.
I reckon Half Way There.

With a wooden building there is only so much you can do, but putting the amateurs off is always a great start.

Chunko'.

 

[Fazed]

If I was a tea leaf I would undo the screws on the hinges with my Swiss Army knife and pull the door off from the bottom.
I had similar hinges on my workshop, after three years I got round to putting coach bolts in instead of screws and welding the bolts to the hinges big washers on the inside.
I reckon Half Way There.

With a wooden building there is only so much you can do, but putting the amateurs off is always a great start.

Chunko'.

One step ahead of you Chunko, me old fruit. I replaced the cheezy woodscrews with stainless c/s allen head bolts, again using big penny washers and nylocs with a dash of threadlock to add a little, er, piquancy .
Once again, my @rse camera (that's a camera which is @rse, not a camera up my @rse) has failed spectacularly to capture the detail.

 

[Delta]

The door wouldn't come out far enough to be able it to be manipulated out from behind the bar - It certainly wouldn't go downwards either unless the shed is suspended from a height which would allow it to slip down.....

It looks like a very good sturdy job and just the sight of that is usually enough to keep your average scrote away and onto an easier pickings. Screwdrivers are for tradesmen, not crims.

 

[Cris B]

Nicely done

 

[hareng]

There again it can atract attention and must have something in there.
Might have been better to put sliding dead bolts on the inside quite easy to do.

Beef the window up, easy to get in.
Likewise if cant get in they could come back for a bit of fun

 

[Delta]

There again it can atract attention and must have something in there.
Might have been better to put sliding dead bolts on the inside quite easy to do.

Beef the window up, easy to get in.
Likewise if cant get in they could come back for a bit of fun

Are you speaking from your experience?

 

[hareng]

No not from a chav background, might have moved the shed with some mates coming back from the pub.

 

[GeorgiePorgie]

There again it can atract attention and must have something in there.
Might have been better to put sliding dead bolts on the inside quite easy to do.

I'll echo that.

This tells yer tea leafs that you have something worth nickin inside,and they will be back time and time again till they get in....its called being curious at what they might steal

 

[adamsmitqc]

looks good to me... another option is a big noisy dog, works wonders

 

[Wedg1e]

Having seen the lengths Joe Scrote went to, to get into a shipping container at our place I'd say the weak point is the box section adjacent to the U-lock (the bit the bar slides through).
Can you double it up?

 

[BigBossMan]

One easy fix...
On the door hinges I'd drill the screw heads to destroy the x-head so even if they had a screwdriver they could'nt undo it.