Golem needs to find a new home

Mike - thats fine.

Zara and I won’t be able to help with the shed destruction as we are going to tauranga that weekend :confused:

It’s a shame that NZ is so spread out - land is cheap as chips on the south island - and very scenic. Bit of a road trip to get the gear tho :confused:

No probs to people who can’t make it on the day, I’m sure we have plenty members who can donate a few hours to a worth larping cause.

How about we avoid the rented storage issue by simply purchasing a truck. Only $4500. This has HUGE capacity, however, I’m not sure if you need a HT licence to drive it. Lighter trucks do not need one, and if not, this would be a good way to store and transport our gear :slight_smile:

Wow! My vote is for that! It solves the dilemna I face every freaking weekend game of who tows the trailer. $4500 is doable, but it would be worth looking at the ongoing costs.

Where do we park it…

At the Gear Officer’s house? :smiley:

Doesn’t look big enough to carry over 4500 kilo and so require a special licence, but would have to get details from the seller to be sure.

It has a towbar, so it could tow the trailer for additional carrying capacity.

Assuming it only needs a Type 1 licence then where to park it and the cost of upkeep would be the issues. Upkeep costs for 80s vehicles… we might spend a lot on it, and it would be an unpredictable amount.

Yeah, it’s basically a portable shed !!

As long as it has rego etc, and is not blocking traffic, you can park it anyway you can park a car. i.e. on the road. Obviously, we’ll have to ensure it is secure (such as with an alarm and immobiliser, big-arsed padlocks on the main door etc).

BTW, I quoted the wrong price, it’s only $4000 o.n.o., but you could spend around $500 putting in an alarm/mobiliser.

Exactly ! :slight_smile:

As opposed to the predictable amount of circa $2500 p.a. ? :wink:

Thats not a small vehicle… I presume that Gaffy is moving - does this mean he will be moving to some where with a big parking area? :slight_smile:

Getting the truck would be a great Idea and gets my vote for sure. We could even dismantle the shed and sell it on trademe and make back at least half of the cost of the truck

I think a truck is a fantastic idea. The only down side I can see, is if the truck is ever stolen, all the nzlarps assets are stolen.

FYI: landtransport.govt.nz/roadco … ystem.html

Class 1 – Car
A holder of a Class 1 learner, restricted or full licence can drive:
a vehicle that has a gross laden weight (GLW) or gross combined weight (GCW) of 4500 kg or less (this includes tractors and combination vehicles, but does not include motorcycles)…

That’s bigger than we need. The main thing will be insurance / named drivers / excesses etc. nzlarps will need to decide what will happen if a person driving the truck has:

  • an at fault accident
  • a not at fault accident
    i.e. does the person driving have to pay the access or not.

Yep, I’d be worried about the theft of truck and gear from truck concept too. Off street parking would be necessary. Contents insurance of the gear might not be possible if its permanently stored in the truck … but then there is no NZlarps contents insurance is there. WOF every 6 months could get to be a hassle for the gear officer or whoever.

The truck is a fine idea when stored off the road. The ultimate way around it is to immobilise it totally when stored. By this I mean a second cutoff keyswitch. Not hard to get done. You can’t even hotwire around it.
Anyways once its off streetthe theft risk is about as much as them breaking into your garage… and the gear shed would have been at risk of that (to a greater or lesser degree).

As for big padlocks, no, we want big locks fitted internally. Bolt cutters are just too easy to get and use. Add to that an alarm and its safer than your house.

Ironically, I do have off street parking for such a vehicle… under a part of my lawn is an old vehicle park… one of the previous owners had a truck full of portable racing stalls but Hamilton is hardly a good place to store it!

[quote=“Jared”]The truck is a fine idea when stored off the road. The ultimate way around it is to immobilise it totally when stored. By this I mean a second cutoff keyswitch. Not hard to get done. You can’t even hotwire around it.
Anyways once its off streetthe theft risk is about as much as them breaking into your garage… and the gear shed would have been at risk of that (to a greater or lesser degree).[/quote]

If your REALY worried about theft there are things you can do:

1)Buy your own wheel clamp (only a few hundred but cheaper than replacing stuff)
2)Remove the battery when the truck isn’t in use and store it with the keys to the truck
3)Unbolt the steering wheel (if the option is avalible)

The difference between a truck and the gear shed, is 99% of crooks who break into the gear shed will see nothing of value, and leave. With a truck, they’ll take the truck and just empty all the gear out somewhere and we’d never see it again. I don’t think it’s a big risk, just worth considering.

Most (all?) of the people I know who have had their SCA armour stolen, had it stolen in the boot of their car.

While I remember, please take this oportunity of making a comprehensive list of what gear NZlarps have - and where it is, if its being split up. This is missing and something sorely overdue - until we get a list of what there is, we cannot attempt to put a real value to it. Could just be list of boxes and approximate contents at this stage.

The salient risk associated with the truck is the entire truck being stolen, not of someone breaking into it and stealing all our gear, because our gear was little resale value.

So, our policy needs to be one of physically disabling the truck so it can’t be driven away. Since the truck will only be driven to/from weekend games, and therefore only driven, say, a dozen times a year, we can go pretty hard on the disabling. Like removing key components or adding a wheel clamp, as Cameron has suggested.

Getting a warrant is not really a big issue, and it doesn’t have to be the gear officer who does it - it can be a delegated task.

Insurance is something we need to get, and as Derek suggests, the committee need to work out their claim/excess policy.

Also, having dedicated offroad parking is a nice-to-have that can be sorted out after we’ve got the truck. Our pressing issue is having a long term gear storage solution.

There seems to be broad support for this idea in principle, is the committee able to indicate when/if they are able to move on this ? Like all auctions, time is of the essence, so we need to move sooner than later on this, methinks.

Resale value on garden sheds is very low. Even when they are reasonably new. It may be worth just leaving it where it is as a thank you…

Resale value on garden sheds is very low. Even when they are reasonably new. It may be worth just leaving it where it is as a thank you…[/quote]
Leaving the shed in place works for me IF we have alternative long term storage (i.e. the truck). If not, then we need to break down the shed in case our eventual solution is to re-erect the shed on someone’s property.

Would it be worth doing a deal with a scout hall or theatre group or something that has spare land to let us put up the shed on their property for a suitable lease? Might turn out cheaper than hiring a locker, and they’d already be set up to cope with access.

The truck looks like a nice idea, but I have reservations both because a vehicle is eminently more stealable than a fixed garden shed, and because the maintenance and registration costs are going to add up pretty quickly. And we’d still need to find a long term place to keep it - on the road is bad for loading/unloading purposes (although I suppose you could move it temporarily), and it would be more visible and hence a bit more likely to be stolen.

On a related topic, any news on contents insurance?

A slight problem with lack of security. having a shed in someone’s yard means you know if its been broken into. An unmonitored offsite, you could have no idea until the next time someone needs something for a game.