buffalo606

Yep, pretty "brave" colour choice 😬 (it belonged to one of my customers)

Luckily I've been able to bring Rusty to work with me most days for the past 8 years. He was a turbo-charged nutter of a wee shite for the first 4-5 years, but he's a bit more zen now and pretty happy chilling in the under the truck or finding a spot under a tree away from the noise.

If you can - could you ping me a photo of how your removable bar is set up?

That sounds interesting - can you ping me a picture so I can visualise it? And does it throw further/neater now, or just from higher?

I hadn't even thought of that - I will defo try that asap

Just got a Hilux tipper to go with the Quadchip but small problem.. The rear ladder rack is currently right in the line of fire for the chipper and can't really fire over or under efficiently without making a total mess. Any clever engineering mods your can think of to keep the ladder rack but move it out the way for chipping? Perhaps some kind of swing/hinge/folding/ mechanism?

I'll save you a bit of time reading through the 2.5k replies in that thread - get a Greenmech CS100

You would want to be tall to feed this all day but apart from that I reckon it looks pretty useful - esp being on a 4x4 (and for mainly rural work)...

P fraxinea sounds more like it - I think the spores are white. Will check tomorrow (as the tree is outside my kitchen window!) I'm now trying to minimise the spread of spores to the other nearby mature ash. Maybe best to completely and carefully remove the brackets and then the tree? Without delay?

+1 for sycamore, I'm sure I've seen the exact same patterns I think you can see some fallen bark plates around the base

Found on the base of a dead Ash tree. Firstly, is it ganoderma? What is the safest way (and time of year) to remove this tree esp with a view to reducing the fungi spreading to the rest of the avenue of mature ash? The customer was previously told "fell and remove it on a hot day midsummer to reduce risk of spores spreading". This advice is new to me..

Disappointingly illiterate observation there. Sounds like a really decent plan Pascal and Maurice - good luck!