Mick Dempsey
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How long have you been in the ‘industry ‘?
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What will I see?
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I don’t know what you do really. If you’re topping large Leylandii they’re excellent, as you are often ‘inside’ the trees/hedge and the exhaust and noise is a real pita. You do sound a bit like you’re trying to confirm what you already think rather than listening to advice. What do you do a lot of?
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Battery saws are good….sometimes. I love mine in lime trees, poplars and the like. Dead acacia is too hard. Really nice not having to shout over the saw noise. Big removals I’ll take up the petrol saw.
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I would imagine you would be handy to a few firms on a self employed ad hoc basis. I think just getting on the blower to firms local to you is the best bet. My guess is you’d probably have to take your own vehicle to the site so you’d be sure to get away on time. This may affect your day rate (adversely) but often jobs are all but finished by 3.
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Doddy’s gone a bit dark lately. Trouble with his diddy-men no doubt.
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Bang on, sore back yesterday. Normally the flail would be advancing into and reversing out of thick bramble which is easier on the back than traversing fields. Looking forward to vids of the roboflail in action, especially in different types of brush.
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Wow! Tree work aside, that first image is a great photo.
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Behave Mark! The way you’re going the only crane work you’ll see is when the cut a hole in the roof of the house to crane your enormous bulk out.
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I don’t mind a bit of this, I upgraded the flail because I can see a bit of a niche for me doing this as I enter my dotage, jobs too small and inaccessible for the farmers with hundreds of hp, and too big for the gardeners.
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More flailing. Forked out for a heavier duty Avant flail, ‘L’ hammers and more poke from the pump. Hurts your back a bit bouncing around across fields. Got to sell the Multione flail if anyone is looking… IMG_3106.MOV
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I admire your attention to detail on these matters, I am much more a fly by the seat of my pants sort, which does me no favours. Interesting info and sounds like a plan.
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Not that I’m saying you’re an influencer or anything. But it reminds me of this daft mare getting all done up in make up, designer wellies etc. carrying a signboard telling us some aspirational crap while her husband takes a photo for the Gram. (Again not you)
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Agreed, was watching a little thing about GPT, I still don’t understand it of course, but his posts do smell of it.
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Ho lee Fook! medical science is amazing. Best of luck going forward.
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Thanks for the follow up, nice to get closure for the family.
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Pretty sure Hedge Mong was joking, the whole thread had descended in farce and he was playing along.
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Re-pollard horse chestnut
Mick Dempsey replied to Jim Curtis's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Thanks for your honesty, re. doing it yourself. HCs tend to rot quickly from the pollard heads, so that’s something to keep an eye on. That will probably do for the tree in the end, but no harm in carrying on for a few cycles. I would reduce to 5’ above the pollard heads, so it’s easy to reach. Try to take it back to a leaf node or bud or whatever not leave a ‘blind’ stub, whilst keeping a nice shape. Late autumn/winter is best. Opinions may vary. -
Dunno tbh.
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No I haven’t heard of it happening but I don’t think they just shrug their shoulders. For the Irish passport, yes, but it’s not simple, you have to fill out paperwork to become a Citizen of Ireland then after a while. (Year or two you’ll have to check) you can apply for the Irish passport.
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What's your favourite sandwich filling?
Mick Dempsey replied to Darrin Turnbull's topic in The Lounge
Tramp’s dick cheese and leopard’s fanny batter. -
You get your passport stamped (and dated) when you leave. So they don’t come looking for you. But they’ll catch you coming back.
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How he ever got to be the boss of CI5 escapes me!
