Where do the stolen chippers go?

[Mark Bolam]

All I can think of Mick is that the dids have a network of a few genuine machines and can order the parts for the serial numbers from them.

 

Doesn’t help if there’s a big problem only a dealer can sort out though.

 

The manufacturers certainly don’t do enough to help.

The basic security locks are laughable.

They obviously see a stolen machine as a new sale.

[Mick Dempsey]

Trackers are not beyond the means of most people, you don’t need them till you need them.

Here I never see the dids with a chipper, they just dump the stuff on the football pitch or wherever they are that week.

 

I have had a chipper nicked btw.

 

Edited February 10, 2022 by Mick Dempsey

[Steve Bullman]

15 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

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

Simple, nick another one and break it or spares

[lux]

Trackers are not beyond the means of most people, you don’t need them till you need them.
Here I never see the dids with a chipper, they just dump the stuff on the football pitch or wherever they are that week.
 
I have had a chipper nicked btw.
 

Are the french pikeys much the same as the other side of the water ?
And despised by the general population as much ?
What’s the slang term for a pikey in french [emoji23]

[Mick Dempsey]

I hear them called ‘manouche’

General opinions very much mirror the views of what you (Brits) think.

 

They seem to own a lot of decent cherry pickers which are useful for lots of work, not just trees, gutters, roofing etc.

 

[lux]

I hear them called ‘manouche’

General opinions very much mirror the views of what you (Brits) think.
 
They seem to own a lot of decent cherry pickers which are useful for lots of work, not just trees, gutters, roofing etc.
 

Interesting. I naively thought they’d be a UK problem and gypo’s on the continent might be more traditional Romany without the crime and leaving rubbish everywhere

[Stere]

Anyone watch the Ed stafford prog 60 days witht gypsys...

 

They all had seemed to have chippers, at each camp he visited, was one in the back ground...

[eggsarascal]

When I lived in bricks my nextdoor neighbours sons were tree surgeons the older one bought a TW when he first started, being green he didn't check it out. It was only when he tried to chop it in for a new chipper he found out it was nicked. Costly mistake.

[Mick Dempsey]

2 minutes ago, lux said:

Interesting. I naively thought they’d be a UK problem and gypo’s on the continent might be more traditional Romany without the crime and leaving rubbish everywhere
 

@Ty Korrigan is the house expert on them, I rarely cross paths, I don’t know why.

I live in a relatively impoverished area of France, most residents are conservative (with a small C) not a very productive area for them I imagine.

They're about, sometimes in numbers, but not rich pickings round here, lots of suspicious faces behind the curtains if a strange vehicle drives through the village.

[paddyvero]

42 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

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

Weigh it in and lift another one?