Dave Handy knew he'd been robbed as soon as he hit his turn signal that Monday.
What took a little longer was doing the math:
Seven tractors and off-road vehicles worth at least $130,000-and that's before a dime of profit-taken overnight from his Sharon Springs Garage.
State Police are investigating the theft and hoping they can enhance images from about seven hours of video from security cameras that show how the April 22-23 robbery went down.
"This makes me boil," Mr. Handy said Friday, clicking through the video.
"Seeing this...It's worse than knowing the tractors are gone."
Unbelievably, it's still light-though it's pouring rain---when the first of the thieves walks up Route 20 into camera-view just before 8pm, ducking down into a farm field across the highway, presumably to act as a lookout, Mr. Handy said.
Next, the second of the thieves rides a bike up into the farm and lawn equipment dealership.
Forty-five minutes later?
That thief starts driving the "hobby-sized" tractors, one-by-one, from the front of the building around the back of the shop.
Next, at about 9pm, a distinctive-looking large, white single-axle van pulls up and around the back, where the tractors are loaded on, a job that takes 20 minutes.
The van then pulls out, headed east on Route 20, returning 21/4 hours later, finishing up at about 3am after a total of three trips.
"Everything in the front row is gone," Mr. Handy said.
"That's what I saw as soon as I hit the turn signal: Nothing."
This isn't the first time Sharon Springs Garage has been hit.
The last time thieves broke into the store itself and after cutting every cable they could find to the security system--something that cost Mr. Handy thousands of dollars in repairs-they made off with 45 chainsaws.
And, he said, there have been other tractors before-just none taken so brazenly.
"It kind of takes the fun out of it all," Mr. Handy said.
"We're all pretty vulnerable."
Just a few hundred feet down the road, Jim MacFadden & Sons handles used farm machinery.
Though he didn't lose any big equipment the day Mr. Handy was hit, Jim MacFadden said small stuff "walks off" so frequently he almost takes it in stride.
"People help themselves to parts off tractors, things like injection pumps, all the time," he said.
"It's rampant in the industry. We do a lot of business with guys in England and Germany and they have the same problems Dave does-we get emails on it all the time.
"It's not as big a problem with what we sell and they can't get around the back of our building...But the day I have to put a fence around the whole lot is the day I sell out."
It was last May that Janet and Nelly Nelson had a 20-foot tilt trailer stolen from their Route 7, Richmondville Trailer Connection after thieves gained access to the locked site by cutting a six-foot high DOT fence along I-88.
"Nope, they never found a thing," Mr. Nelson said Monday, nearly a year later. "It's just gone."