STURGIS, MI -- A plasma cutter, cutting torches with tanks, hand tools, chop saws and grinders were taken from Black Gold Farms, 69331 Klinger Lake Rd. in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Pilot arc torches, which are more suitable for CNC cutters, can strike the arc through a separate conductor without the need to contact the workpiece.

The CNC machine uses a handheld plasma cutting torch as its base, which uses a blowback start mechanism making it usable in an automated CNC setup without interfering with the control electronics.