My question, is how did a truck get totaled running into it being perpendicular to the road? That is more than a "hold my beer" moment.
When we had a property up in Fern Forest that got robbed, they used bolt cutters to get rid of the lock on the gate. Our neighbors, taking the advice of a locksmith, secured their gate with a bicycle lock. The thieves got in by ramming their (stolen I assume) truck into the gate hard enough that it uprooted the concrete on one side. It demonstrated that what is underground is just as important as the part you can see. It also demonstrated the strength of a bike lock.
We had an industrial strength cargo shipping container lock similar to the one I'll paste below on the shipping container we had on the property (Ours wasn't a combination lock but had a round barrel lock that took one of those round vending machine type keys that are nearly impossible to pick). They removed it by using bolt cutters to snip the four corners where the steel is against the container posts, it weakened it just enough they were able to use chains or tow straps hooked to a 4WD to bend the flat steel plate at the weakened corners just enough to get the lock off.
The irony was that the container had recently been emptied, the most expensive loss was lock they destroyed.
https://www.amazon.com/Equipment-HDCDL-C...l?dchild=1&keywords=cargo+shipping+container+lock&sr=8-4&linkCode=ll1&tag=pw016-20&linkId=3a6dd431767f70c93e45f7289af29dae&language=en_US
When we had a property up in Fern Forest that got robbed, they used bolt cutters to get rid of the lock on the gate. Our neighbors, taking the advice of a locksmith, secured their gate with a bicycle lock. The thieves got in by ramming their (stolen I assume) truck into the gate hard enough that it uprooted the concrete on one side. It demonstrated that what is underground is just as important as the part you can see. It also demonstrated the strength of a bike lock.
We had an industrial strength cargo shipping container lock similar to the one I'll paste below on the shipping container we had on the property (Ours wasn't a combination lock but had a round barrel lock that took one of those round vending machine type keys that are nearly impossible to pick). They removed it by using bolt cutters to snip the four corners where the steel is against the container posts, it weakened it just enough they were able to use chains or tow straps hooked to a 4WD to bend the flat steel plate at the weakened corners just enough to get the lock off.
The irony was that the container had recently been emptied, the most expensive loss was lock they destroyed.
https://www.amazon.com/Equipment-HDCDL-C...l?dchild=1&keywords=cargo+shipping+container+lock&sr=8-4&linkCode=ll1&tag=pw016-20&linkId=3a6dd431767f70c93e45f7289af29dae&language=en_US