Mike Dempsey
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Sitting watching the pole climbing judt now. Very impressed with it. Quite happy to sit on the ground drinking coffee!
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Anyone going to the RHS today in Edinburgh. Taking my 13 year old daughter and her pal and they havent been before. Think this will be the biggest crowds they have ever been in. Keeping my fingers crossed for a dry day:thumbup:
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There is absolutely no point in making any laws that cannot be enforced and the politicians know this. Its fairly easy to catch someone speeding, drink driving or using a mobile whilst driving and proving it. How would you possibly legislate for chainsaws. There must be hundreds of thousands of them out there used by people regularly to cut firewood etc who do not have certificates. Impossible to police properly in a time they are cutting the budgets of all the public services. It wont happen
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But just think of the opportunities for revenge when they are teenagers and want to sleep all day:thumbup:
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Cant go wrong with a Bostitch. A little more expensive than a machinemart one, but it will last for years and parts are easy to get, paticularly from the US where they are cheaper and only take 2 or 3 days to get here. Mike
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I am just surprised that no neighbour has chucked a match in it as it has been going on for so long. That would have solved the problem years ago and saved probably tens of thousands of pounds.
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Planked up a one metre dia elm which had been standing dead and then felled about 6 years ago. No softness or spalting anywhere and about 20 per cent moisture content which meant it was a bit dusty when milling. Crack burry planks though.
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Hi Nigel I have pm'd you
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They take about 2 hours or so to make including lasering time so the price would be £70 plus postage. Let me know if you want one Nigel and I can make them early in the week. Cant guarantee they will all be the same size as the one photographed as it depends on the planks of sycamore I have in the workshop. Big pile of syc just put in the kiln 3 days ago so that will take another 5 weeks to dry.
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One of my regular customers is a big bike fan and asked me to make this for him. The wood is sycamore which has been milled and kiln dried by myself. It turns a lovely shade of brown, and the finish is teak oil. It measures 300mm wide and about 450mm long. With luck all the engraving has missed the knot! Might see if I can do some more race tracks from around Europe and the States.
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Took it down to him this afternoon. What a place. Workbench at one end and a big flat screen tv at the other with cable telly, and a 4kw woodburning stove in the middle of the cave. Home from home!
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Was asked to make this for a neighbour a few days ago. Measures 18" wide by 10" and made in oak. I'll leave it to him to put some teak oil on it
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Can a traffic warden take pictures in side car thanks
Mike Dempsey replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
I would have thought that it is a breach of your privacy or a breach of your human rights. Get to court quick Jon and sue them as the Tories want to abolish the HRA:thumbup1: -
Been a lot of criticism about these 3 shows on another forum. A lot of folk think its more about the cameraman/director than the subject with a lot of long shots of totally irrelavent material being shown and jumping steps. More art than factual
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Fencing for horses how far should the post be apart thanks
Mike Dempsey replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
Shouldnt you have put the fencing up before you nicked them from Newmarket Jon? -
Atkinson Walker also make their own blades and offer a variety of services.
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I opened up the kiln yesterday for the first time to check on how it was doing. Down to about 11% and looking good. I will give it another 5 days whilst I finish off the rest of the sycamore boxes. Losing another percent or 2 would be good. The trial run for engraving on the polar went really well and I am looking forward to using poplar for the first time. I might even go out and plank the rest of the logs and dry them and stash away the timber for a rainy day!
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offers on orange hi viz chainsaw bib n brace
Mike Dempsey replied to littlerob's topic in General chat
check their special offers out -
I have a Trewhella Monkey Winch. Picked it up for 50 quid last year and it was delivered to the workshop and stuck near the door. It hasnt moved since apart from the time my mate came over to look at it and we unwound the cable and the wound it back up. I'm too scared to take it out in case I have to leave it behind as I cant get it into the van on my own. I bought a winch from Safety Lifting Gear a few months ago and its brilliant. Fairly moved a 10' stump of syc np problem. I also got a smaller second hand Tirfor on ebay for 40 quid. I'm not happy with the cable so I will buy a new one for it.
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Good on you Dean. Think you may have a customer for life there, who will also spread the word about you:thumbup1:
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Tesco going down what do you all think thanks
Mike Dempsey replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
Tesco hasnt lost any money. Its all a paper exercise to minimise any taxation due to the Exchequer. Smoke and mirrors, all of it. They have extremely good accountants with the backup of the best brains available to help them pay the least amount of tax possible, as do Amazon, Starbucks et al. -
Many years ago when in the boy scouts they actually had that method of cooking hedgehogs in their scout handbook. Nowadays they probably all go to McDonalds:biggrin:
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Having to dodge a bunch of yobs chucking petrol bombs as well
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There must be a handicap system somewhere that they introduce to make it a bit more exciting/slightly less boring!
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There's only one thing worse than Formula One on the telly, and that's Formula One on Radio 5 Live. How mind numbingly boring and tedious. Some sports are definetly not suited to the radio and that includes commentary on the snooker and darts as well:thumbdown:
