Where do the stolen chippers go?

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

Has no one heard of ringing up? Timberwolf have a ID tag and one serial number etched into the chassis leg the tags are taken off the 5 first digits on the id are all the same then the rest of the numbers can rather be made up or copied off another machine off the likes of Google images or the same machine for sale on the internet the etching is ground back to bare metal and painted back to the colour then you can buy the machines to do the etching off eBay for maybe £1000-£1500 sounds expensive but if you pay £300 to get a £25,000 + chipper for maybe £1500-£2500 and if you get pulled it’s rather the real McCoy or it doesn’t exist but it still isn’t stolen so they have to return it back to you then for the id plate you copy the first 5 digits are always SBXTW and then you buy a cheap stamp set off eBay and match the codes up and rivet it back on 

this is how easy the tags are to copy 

 

Jack

[woody paul]

They also have number stamped in were spout bolts on, well old models do haven't new one. 

That would not be easy to change. 

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

Can’t say I ever seen one on my old 150 but In all fairness I can’t say I looked but them little die grinders get anywhere and if you can’t change the numbers grind them back to bare metal and if there’s no numbers there’s no proof is there I’ve had mountain bikes stolen I’ve identified the bikes gave the police the information but because the serial numbers weren’t there because they’d been removed they couldn’t / wouldn’t do anything the police are useless 

 

Jack

[Dbikeguy]

Ok, but how do these guys get spares and repairs? First thing the suppliers want is the serial number.

They don’t they just steal another..

[Mick Dempsey]

8 hours ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

Has no one heard of ringing up? Timberwolf have a ID tag and one serial number etched into the chassis leg the tags are taken off the 5 first digits on the id are all the same then the rest of the numbers can rather be made up or copied off another machine off the likes of Google images or the same machine for sale on the internet the etching is ground back to bare metal and painted back to the colour then you can buy the machines to do the etching off eBay for maybe £1000-£1500 sounds expensive but if you pay £300 to get a £25,000 + chipper for maybe £1500-£2500 and if you get pulled it’s rather the real McCoy or it doesn’t exist but it still isn’t stolen so they have to return it back to you then for the id plate you copy the first 5 digits are always SBXTW and then you buy a cheap stamp set off eBay and match the codes up and rivet it back on 

this is how easy the tags are to copy 

 

Jack

Good info.

[isaacp]

Why so much racist comments. So much talk about pikeys,tarmac driveways,lopping,topping, chopping All of this behaviour in the comments and everybody seems to be okay with it so much criminalise commenting towards only one certain community without any evidential facts photographs,police reports with no Pacific ethnic groups or communities to be shown to the public? All of this is just racist word say from small minded people!

[lux]

Why so much racist comments. So much talk about pikeys,tarmac driveways,lopping,topping, chopping All of this behaviour in the comments and everybody seems to be okay with it so much criminalise commenting towards only one certain community without any evidential facts photographs,police reports with no Pacific ethnic groups or communities to be shown to the public? All of this is just racist word say from small minded people!

Here’s some. 5 nice expensive stolen caravans found on one traveller site recently. Stolen from farms across the country.

5 is pushing coincidence a little far

[Moose McAlpine]

@Mark Bolam the bleeding heart you ordered has arrived. 😂

[Ty Korrigan]

1 hour ago, isaacp said:

Why so much racist comments. So much talk about pikeys,tarmac driveways,lopping,topping, chopping All of this behaviour in the comments and everybody seems to be okay with it so much criminalise commenting towards only one certain community without any evidential facts photographs,police reports with no Pacific ethnic groups or communities to be shown to the public? All of this is just racist word say from small minded people!

You ought to use the 24 cooling off period from one of your flyers to wind your head back out of your arse and get a grip of reality.

 

[Ty Korrigan]

In the early 90's I lived in a touring caravan on a farm near Chichester.

I woke one night, disturbed by noise and lights from the farm entrance. I roused the farmer who called the police.

The gates had been stolen!

A few years later having moved away, I called in to see my old landlord and he told me the gates were found at a travellers site near Petworth, alone with Quadbikes, saws, generators, the usual pikey fair.

Then, THEN...

The thieves came back and in an act of vengance, took an angle grinder to the hinges left in the stone posts!