D21 was vandalized and I need some assistance

I'm hoping some of you might be able to help me like you've been able to in the past. Yesterday morning my place of work was hit by vandals. They damaged 15 different pieces of equipment that were here. Worst thing was they completely destroyed the cab glass and all the lights on eight cab tractors. I had brought my D21 in to do some work to it and the vandals got it as well. They busted out all four headlghts and the two rear worklights. Fortunately they didn't take out the tachometer or the chrome grill. The tractor once had a cab on it so the lights were moved to the front to the left and right of the radiator. I think they're from Guide Lamp, but I'll do some more investigation. Maybe some of you have some original lights you'd be willing to part with. I have included pictures. Thank you for your time.

they were prolly kids that wore their green caps that daddy gave them! sorry to hear about the damage, I hope you have reported it?

make sure you turn a damage $$$ report, so you can collect damages. otherwise the courts will get the money and you won't! request restitution for antique repairs!

The kids need to pay for parts, labor and loss of equipment use by digging trenches for major pipelines by hand at the rate of $1 an hour. And spend their nonworking hours in jail cells.

Gerald J.

Hope the judge gives them some time in a cell and some hard labor but Daddy will probably bail them out. If I had done something like that I would want them to lock me up so my Dad couldn't get hold of me. They need to be made to earn the money to pay for all the damage and inconvenience.

Adam in VA wrote: They got the people that did it......teenagers with golf clubs.

 

Adam - keep us up to date as you hear more.   Are they under 18?   Parents liable too?  Think deep pockets, lol!   Mike

I wish you could beat them with the same golf clubs!  MAYBE then they'd learn a lesson.  Otherwise Dad just pays the bill and nobody cares.
It helps too if you go to the court yourself.  Shows the judge that you want some justice.

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: Hope the judge gives them some time in a cell and some hard labor but Daddy will probably bail them out. If I had done something like that I would want them to lock me up so my Dad couldn't get hold of me. They need to be made to earn the money to pay for all the damage and inconvenience. Mine too!

Hello Adam     The fact that the lights are trash go for LED lights.   I bought regular lights for my D21, now I wish I had LED's  Allen

Stupid kids. I kinda wonder if lights off of 180 & late 190xt work my D21 has only one or 2 headlights & they are broke out. Was it a cab made for a D21? I sort of wish I had a cab for mine.

A small update on the D21 situation. I never thought to look up when inspecting everything before, but they also got the pre-cleaner bowl assembly on the tractor. They also very, very slightly brushed the side of the chrome grill when they knocked out one of the headlights. It's extremely minor and I don't think I could prove they were responsible. It's almost impossible to see the damage and it would be taken care of when I redo the grill someday anyhow. I might just get all new re-pro lights from Steiner, but I would still be interested to know if anyone has some nice originals. Still a big mess to clean up here... lots of busted cab glass, mirror glass, signal lenses, etc... It's brought our service business to a standstill, because we can't move anything until the insurance adjuster comes and most of the shop work we had lined up we can't do because the customers tractors ready to go into the shop were the ones vandalized. What's more is that we had one new tractor damaged and four used tractors are now damaged and I can't sell them during end of year business


Edited by Adam in VA - 22 Nov 2016 at 11:22am

My D21 came from Northern California and someone had smashed every light and gauge there was on it.  At least it didn't have a cab or all the windows would have been gone too most likely.  I used just standard round halogen tractor lights (from places like Northern Tool or Steiner) and mounted them on the fenders.  Been toying with the idea of switching it to LED, but I haven't gotten that done yet.