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Sorry to hear that Karl, I'll keep my eyes open.

They are a great company, well worthy of a recommendation!

You won't find it in BS3998 but we've ratchet strapped them really tightly before now and then wired them up before removing the straps, and then cut them back hard around the sides to remove any bulges (making sure you don't sever anything that is supporting life further up the tree obviously). They look terrible when you first do them but they grow back well within a season and end up a lot narrower and more formal looking. You need good strong wire, you can apply a lot of tension with a 5 tonne ratchet strap and you don't want it going pop... (before anyone shoots me down for tree mutilation, this was done as a last resort as the owner was going to remove them otherwise). They now look fantastic as they are regularly cut with a hedgecutter.

I've just had a reply from Friday-Ad (9.00pm on a Sunday night - pretty good service to be fair, much better than eBay) letting me know that the ad in question was placed in October last year. I hadn't even bought the now stolen chipper at that time, so it unfortunately isn't relevant!

I hadn't seen that ad and I can't open the picture (if there was one) as it is listed as sold. I've emailed Friday Ad for a copy of it though - if they can send me one I'll know instantly if it was my machine. Cheers for the heads up. Thanks everyone else too, I've had loads of good leads and I'm really grateful to everybody who is keeping an eye out.

Apparently he searched for wood chipper and woodchipper and it came up somewhere. As an aside, the following link on farm trader is my actual chipper (thank you to those that noticed). It is the original advert from which I bought the machine last November - for some reason it is still running on Autotrader. GRT repossessions are a decent company to deal with - they aren't involved in the loss of my machine. asaphttp://farm.autotrader.co.uk/used-farm-machinery/greenmech/forestry-and-hedging/at8a6a050234f1d09b0135084fa9e83e6e/greenmech-arb-19-28

Great job - I think you should be commended for including the little mishaps in the finished vid, it's stuff like that that helps us all learn. You could have made the whole thing look perfect and we'd have known no different. Superb!

I thought that too!

Sorry, no. I had a phone call today off a legendary Arbtalker who saw it and thought nothing at the time but twigged in the middle of the night last night and went hunting for more info, only to draw a blank. that's all I really know about this particular lead.

Sounds like a plan - nice work!

Thanks Geoff, I appreciate it! I've been in touch, they give nothing out over the phone that you can't find out yourself through the site, but I've emailed all the details to another department that deals with this sort of thing. It's a bit slowly slowly though... Keep your eyes peeled, there's still £1000 up for grabs if you can find my machine!

I'll second that - even a 16-23 outperforms the 190 in my opinion. The 190 is a very good machine though, much much better than the 150.

Stereo - that's very kind of you to go to the trouble. Unfortunately it is none of those you have sent me. I have trawled through all of the ended listings I can think of that are relevant (ie chipper, wood chipper, woodchipper, shredder, greenmech etc) and can't find the one that was mentioned. Apparently the listing talked about bankrupt or liquidated stock, but I have no idea regarding title etc. Thanks again for what you have done, it means a lot.

I don't suppose anybody on here saw a Greenmech chipper on eBay on Monday - it appears that the listing has been deleted but there is a chance it is my stolen 1928. I'm after any info possible if you saw it. An Arbtalker alerted me to it but so far I have drawn a bit of a blank.

Search for 'crane chin up' on youtube - it gives me 5p 50p watching it...

What was the listing? Someone saw a spurious listing for a Greenmech chipper on Monday this week but I can't find any sign of it now and I would be interested in a bit more info if anyone else saw it.

Man decapitated in wood chipper accident, coroner says | Reuters Dunno if it has been posted elsewhere, and not 100% clear if the rope went into the chipper or was being pulled by a winch, but terribly sad whatever the circumstances. I thought it had a relevance to this post though.

Nope - there is still £1000 up for grabs if anyone has any info. There was a rumour it might be in the St Helens area - keep your eyes peeled 'cos I want it back!

I've got a 52 plate Toyota Dyna with the 2.5 d4d hilux engine and I would recommend you avoid them like the plague - mine's had a fuel pump (£1k) and an EDU (which I'd never heard of and even the Toyota dealers I spoke to had never fitted one) for another £1k in the last 12 months, plus a £350 sump as the original had rusted through. It's only done 110k miles.

That's a brilliant film - thank you for posting! Sad to see the big old trees coming down but absolutely fascinating! Those blokes were double-hard, we are all little girls by comparison!

Treeseer - I agree with your take on this, but surely 9% and 4% are way too specific and therefore a little pointless. How can that be measured accurately?

Pete, why don't you do a PTO 1928? I think there would be a good market for it if you could make it light enough.

A couple of my mates bought 2 ms261s and we all thought they were great at first. However, they have both had new crankshafts under warranty because of the needle roller bearings failing, and are about to go back a second time for the same problem. It is basically a major design fault with no current fix - they are simply put back to standard. The lads are trying to get their money back whilst they are still under warranty. Do not buy these saws would be my advice, and if you've got one that has gone wrong whilst still under warranty then do what you can to get a refund. I have always been a Stihl fan, but bought one of the first Husky 560xp saws on a whim (which subsequently went wrong, but is now fixed). It is the best saw I have ever used - it is supposed to be the Husky equivalent to the Stihl ms362 but it is miles better. The ms361 was a mega saw but I reckon that this is even better than that. All the new Stihl kit I have used is pony compared to their older machinery, and as far as I can see Husky have upped their game. Now they need to get the long promised climbing saw to market...

OK, sorry for expressing my opinion. I have obviously upset you and your concise posting has made me realise what a fool I have been to think like I do.

Can you build folding prop stand legs into your ramps that transfer the majority of the machine's weight straight down into the ground - they would need a bit of headscratching as the loadbed of your Nissan will drop as the grinder moves off the ramps and onto the pickup.