Mick Dempsey
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Ps, The ‘backbone’ never really caught on did it?
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Quite pleased with this. 6 steel screw gate steel krabs for €6.50 each from a local agricultural dealer. Zipline worthy.
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Seen a couple of fields of it out here as it goes.
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Is Stafford in Staffordshire?
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Wet, windy and cool in SW France. Normally we’re sweltering in the mid thirties at this time. Coolest wettest summer I can remember since coming here in 2005.
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Good. Why has that been planted en masse like that?
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Solenoids over hemorrhoids.
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Maybe make it removable, just lift it out every time you chip, then reattach with a couple of split pins or whatever for rigidity when driving.
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Why is this a big deal? I get all sorts of emails and assorted from companies that have my contact details, so what?
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Passed my test in 82 or 83. Used to thrash the arse out of our cars here there and everywhere. Motoring for pleasure is finished, cameras everywhere, in car computers will probably dob you in soon, new cars already nag the bollocks off you about tyre pressure, seatbelts, and anything else. Get used to it, like it or not.
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Already repaired and back at work Bin Dipper. Thanks anyway.
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Watching a video of one on YT, he’s full extension with a grading bucket of sand, looks pretty stable. Igor Piekruz, have you seen it?
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Are you sure that was the original set up? Not just a tracked loader unit dropped on a wheeled chassis of some sort.
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What equipment do you have, loaders, chippers etc.?
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Agreed, there are so many variables. I remember reducing an oak in high winds. I had to stop, not because it felt dangerous, but because the bits I cut were ending up two gardens away! Wouldn’t contemplate climbing a Lombardy in the same conditions.
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Mechanised Flail / hedgecutting cost- how do you charge
Mick Dempsey replied to Jamie edwards's topic in Business Management
Be very sure the Avant will do the job before forking out. My suspicion is that it won’t have the grunt to flail down stuff that thick. -
@Conor Wright where is this please?
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Mechanised Flail / hedgecutting cost- how do you charge
Mick Dempsey replied to Jamie edwards's topic in Business Management
Back in the UK, on the very rare occasion I’d get asked to quote for this, I’d get a local farmer to do it, pay him, put my cut on top. They seemed happy to do it after the harvest for instant payment. -
Mechanised Flail / hedgecutting cost- how do you charge
Mick Dempsey replied to Jamie edwards's topic in Business Management
Are you doing it yourself with your own equipment? -
Today we were flailing to reinstate a field edge for fencing. Few acacia in there and trimming back the hazel. The 760 has 80 litres a minute up from 70 pm that the 750 produced. Big difference in performance for the flail. Almost a pleasure!
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Cat.
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Broadly speaking, I think he’s doing ok, he’ll get smashed in the next election, but if he can retain leadership of the Conservatives he could regain government in less challenging times and do a decent job.
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‘Cheap’ is the key word here. Unless you’re offering some kind of structured training, not just some vague offer of teaching them stuff as and when you feel like doling out some advice you’ll struggle in the current climate to find what you’re looking for.
