Spoons saves a toad!

[Shane]

Just finishing the chipping today when Spoons (another arbtalk member) pushed us out of the way and hit the stop bar.

 

We thought he had spotted a half brick or chunk of wire but NO...

There in the infeed hopper was a whopping great toad.

 

Mr Toad was duly placed back in the garden:thumbup1:

 

Just wondering what the poor little guy (the toad, not Spoons) was thinking with all that noise and just a few inches from the infeed rollers- eeek!

 

Great save Ross - now get running again.

[treequip]

Well done that man, I rescued a shrew today, it took cover in the last cut on a huuuuuge stump, little bugger nipped me for my trouble, still! it's not as if I had been handling a toad and was going to grow warts:laugh1:

 

Gotta go now, jogging off to the back of the truck to get unloaded

[mendiplogs]

Just finishing the chipping today when Spoons (another arbtalk member) pushed us out of the way and hit the stop bar.

 

We thought he had spotted a half brick or chunk of wire but NO...

There in the infeed hopper was a whopping great toad.

 

Mr Toad was duly placed back in the garden:thumbup1:

 

Just wondering what the poor little guy (the toad, not Spoons) was thinking with all that noise and just a few inches from the infeed rollers- eeek!

 

Great save Ross - now get running again.

 

Hi Ross nice one there mate Jon

[Bearded Munch]

I wonder how much wildlife eg: bugs, spiders, beetles etc go through a chipper across the UK each day.

[Shane]

I wonder how much wildlife eg: bugs, spiders, beetles etc go through a chipper across the UK each day.

 

I dread to think - the odd dead squirrel (it was dead before, honest) and unfinished lunches plus tons more no doubt.

[Breezeblock]

i know of at least 5 magpies

[Eddy_t]

Nobody cares about spiders going through a chipper, in fact, I'm happier if they do, but nice saving a toad, I felt guilty when I accidentally clipped one with a brushcutter, and I moved a frog out the way of the mower I was using today, mowed up a few crane flies though! Save me having to treat the turf later on

 

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

Good work, Spoons.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I wonder how much wildlife eg: bugs, spiders, beetles etc go through a chipper across the UK each day.

 

Jack Russel worst I can think of; fountains job years ago, leaped after a stick thrown in the hopper.

[Spoons]

Why thank you Shane and the rest of you for the praise. I did my good deed for the day. Mr Toad was grateful too I hope. I did wonder if any of his family went through or not before I noticed him though.......

 

Ross.