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These things have their processes. I’ll let them have their fair chance at an amicable resolution before I get my knickers in a real twist about it. It’ll be the real measure of their company ...

Probably embalming himself with a whisky and soda right now Come on@stubby You’re too old for those ported saws now , let me take them off your hands.

Good constructive post. Keep in touch and let me know how yours pans out. Sorry to hear yours is a negative experience but also , perhaps selfishly, strengthened by the fact my chipper woes are not sounding so isolated. If you get what I mean. I too would like to see forst improve. Partly as I’m currently invested into them with my purchase but also because I think they can fairly easily rectify a lot of these faults. I really can’t believe that these machines have been properly field tested for a long else these niggles would of appeared during R and D. In my humble opinion forst need to listen to those using these machines in real world conditions and use the findings to get better. It’ll be an almighty fall from grace at the top of chipper sales if people have enough and have turned their backs in 3/4 years. Ain’t to amount of dishing out ice cream waffles at the arb show going to fix a tattered reputation of unreliable machines and the Christmas bonus will definitely diminish if they are bleeding money on the warranty’s ... I like my Forst. It chips like a beast when it wants to. Just wish it did it more often without falling apart, I’d Love it then !

Khriss and Mick finally agree .... I couldn’t find one of stubby, well not in colour anyway ....

Nothing like a good debate. [emoji23]

I’m the one with the spannered chipper and even I’m not getting that aggy

Calm down you two. ......

Blade changes on my old tw150. What a faff. Stupid access and you had to scrape out those torx heads with a little pick so you could seat the torx driver in it. Pain.

Let’s face it. Could by any of these small chippers from any brand and they could have issues. Forst seem to have their fair share but like someone else mentioned is that reflective of the sales volumes as they are the biggest selling chipper 🤷‍♂️. Who knows. I certainly don’t. All I care about right now is resolving mine [emoji57]

General recall for the chassis. They were cracking. I think all machines within a certain production number had to have a complete new chassis. I really don’t see them being around in 20 years like an entec Still a good chipper. But like the forst I would have it outside a warranty. I’d flip it against a new one every 3 years. I can’t recall exactly what was wrong with his but along the lines of your st8 being out of balance / alignment causing some serious damage. Lister could resolve it so went back to TW. Took months.

Bit of both I think. The tw230 punches above its weight. Impressive performance but they made weight savings everywhere on the machine to achieve it. Has made them a bit fragile. I bet you don’t see the 230’s kicking around at the same age as the 150’s or even entecs that are still in daily use. My mates has been a nightmare. Falls apart all the time and he is pretty good on the maintenance front. Can’t argue their performance though.

Never easy is it. Given my mates issues with his 230 I wouldn’t touch one with a barge pole. Lister wilder were crap too. The 190 is a great machine but too long in the tooth now. Got enough older machines not to need another. Good chipper but most likely had a hard life by now. Never been a greenmech fan although people do rate the 19-28 highly. Forst had a lot of good answers regarding early machines issues. Shame the new one had some of its own for my purchasing pleasure ...

Can I claim that under warranty [emoji23]

Can’t say I agree on warranty. Bloody glad I’ve got one at the moment. This could happen with any brand of chipper to be fair. Buying a used chipper could be a minefield. If it’s such a good chipper why is someone moving it on ... Horses for courses swinny. The important part of this is how forst respond to Remedy the situation.

Epic stuff. I bet that was an interesting moment when that shaft failed at full chat ........

On the plus side they sent me a nice notepad at Christmas so I’ve somewhere to write down all my machines faults .... just needs ‘doesn’t’ in front of work at the moment.

Good fitter is worth his weight ... No wonder those mechanics on Gold Rush are the highest paid employees

Interesting. Thanks. Forewarned is forearmed as they say

As they say kriss , “worse things have happened at sea “ It’s very frustrating but no point crying about it. Hopefully a swift resolution will be found. [emoji106]

Did they have to skim it to balance it up ? Yeah roller speed depending on material mine stays between 4 and 5.5 most of the time. A small tweak for different chipping makes a good difference

I work it out in euros for you Mick... [emoji38]

8 out of 10 disagreements can be resolved with an axe khriss, for the rest break out the 880

What was his response / attitude to resolving your issues ?

Those log bullets look excellent. Can anyone tell me how much they are ? PM if you don’t want to put it in the thread. Some nice log piles going on here [emoji106]