My hope is some small company/nimble buys the chipper design and keeps producing the product. I'm waiting to hear a price on such a thing, but I highly doubt I could swing that. From what I've been told, the Tree Care side of TEE was on schedule to make budget this year and that it was the whole tree/biomass side that was losing money hand over fist. The problem is they are both part of the same brand (Woodsman) and built in the same factory (Woodsman's old factory with a lot of Woodsman people.). TEE bought CBI and are moving to their factory with no room for moving the arborist line. They're trying to streamline I think and get the main focus.
Not trying to speak out of turn, but a big problem in Michigan was a lack of motivation of the personnel left over from the Woodsmen days. They were happy with the status quo of 20 years ago, which is a tough business model to sustain in combination with big corporate stiffness (Terex).
Either way, they still have/had a good product and with that big stiffness (Terex) backing the future support, it should be a relatively smooth transition. I certainly understand the hesitation it causes potential buyers, but I also see the savings it's going to offer on the purchase price. Like I said earlier, the normal parts you replace on a chipper are available third party for a lower price. As an end user, outside of warranty coverage I try to buy my parts outside of the OEM's network anyways to save money.