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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.

Very very good, my early one was pony but they fixed it and now it's mega! Get one, you won't be disappointed.

No, they've never really excited me enough to bite the bullet. I've only seen/heard horror stories from colleagues that have run them, but to be fair they've never run new ones. I'm sure it's the same as any machine in that there are good and bad (largely as a result of poor maintenance I'm sure) ones out there, but everyone I know that has had one hasn't kept it. My comments relate to the new machine talked about in this thread - I feel it is prohibitively expensive to run one of these machines and make money from it (mostly from an initial investment/depreciation point of view). There will obviously be jobs that it would get through more quickly than the standard tipper and chipper combo, but for the money I would personally run 2 teams (even if one of them was in a 'classic' mog for arguments sake) out of a couple of vehicles for the same investment, and hire in big kit if necessary. I'm not getting into the whole mogs are ace/mogs are crap argument - if you can set one up well for less than 40k then I can see their place if well maintained. I just personally couldn't see how I could make that particular £100k investment pay for itself, but that's not to say nobody can. The proof will be in the pudding I suppose - let's see who buys them.

I think running a log splitter/processor/saw bench off a £100k investment is a bit of a waste tbh - you'd be better with a £1000 yard tractor for that. All the other bits and pieces you mention wouldn't get used by the majority or arbs on a regular basis (except perhaps for the crane, but that is very much access dependant and therefore suffers the same limitations as the mog mounted chipper). Large fuel grade chippers really need a bit more power than a mog can muster to be of any real commercial use. It is cheaper to hire in an agricultural tractor with a 50k box as and when necessary IMO. The mog is great, and if money was no object and return on investment didn't matter then I would have one, but it is still only one vehicle, and as a result represents a massive investment that is ok at a lot of things but not really excellent at any of them. I can't see many owner operators forking out for one of these machines, they will be supplied almost exclusively to end users who won't really have to justify the expense in commercial terms (local authority etc). The major downside to this machine is that is is just 1 machine for the money, so can only support 1 team. If the hype was true then every arb firm would run them as they would be unable to compete without. It does look kool though!!!

It's not often that you need to carry 3 tonnes day to day IMO, and if you do you simply take the 2 vehicles and trailer (unfortunately on those particular days you can't send a second team out to earn money elsewhere which they could be doing otherwise). Granted it has a PTO but in our industry that's only really useful for a chipper, and if your chipper can only be used when attached to the mog then it isn't as useful as one that can be tracked into back gardens/down footpaths/along field headlands etc. If large scale chipping is required then a 3 tonne payload is pretty pathetic in real terms. You'd be better off with a bulk trailer. That role could just as easily be performed by a much cheaper tractor. The high bodies on mogs mean that loading timber by hand is also much harder than it needs to be, so a crane (ie more money) becomes a necessity. I really like the idea, but I can't see how it can be justified (if money was no object I would obviously have one though!).

It does look the nuts, and I would love one! However I really can't see what that set up can do that a 3.5 tonne tipper, large road tow chipper, tracked chipper and Landy/other 4x4 and tipping trailer couldn't, for similar money, with masses more useability in just about every treework scenario I've encountered. (I would still love one though!!!)