Trailer security

[donkmeister]

Is there any received wisdom about trailer security besides "hide it and make it difficult to get to"?

I'm still keeping an eye out for my new trailer (I'm looking for a P5e or a Brenderup 1150), and want to have my security plans clear before I get it. I live somewhere that plant machinery and the like occasionally runs away from home, and hiding a trailer properly wouldn't really work.

I was wondering about concreting a hitch post into the ground in as awkward a place as I can put it (to minimise room for sledgehammers and disc cutters), and removing one/both wheels. However, I have seen others say that it's better to leave the wheels on and put a disc lock on them to avoid people arriving with their own wheels to pinch a trailer.

Determined thief will always find a way but I'm trying to make it too much like hard work at least.

[smokey mow]

I have a P5E, trailers of that size are incredibly easy to steel. They’re light so can be moved by hand without effort, a 17mm spanner will bypass any hitch lock by simply removing the hitch and wheels can be swapped on off easily.

Mine always sits behind a car and a tractor so isn’t going anywhere but otherwise id be looking at solutions that don’t involve locks or chains on the trailer. If hiding or securing behind a gate isn’t an option then my choice would be a removable security bollard.

[KTMsm]

Hide air tags or similar on it

Wheel clamp

Block it in with an automatic car

What I've also done on mine is paint the wheels orange.

This was mostly done so if I lose it at track day etc it's quick to ask people if they've seen a trailer with orange wheels drive past, but also handy for the police, bright pink would work even better

I've seen others weld their name etc onto the frame