Mick Dempsey
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In fairness, you don’t decide when to end a thread, just like you don’t decide when and how to cut your tree. Theres a sort of symmetry in that I suppose.
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Yeah sorry, I just feel really strongly about it My nephew sweated like Katie Price on Father’s Day in his, seemed like a hell of a weight to sit on your noggin all day.
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Those Protos seem very heavy, I have a husky arborist lid. Very light and comfortable. I am all in favour of constructive debate so.. Stick your Protos up your arse.
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Gardening whilst on a motor bike(under cut folk)
Mick Dempsey replied to Thesamshow's topic in Trees and the Law
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Gardening whilst on a motor bike(under cut folk)
Mick Dempsey replied to Thesamshow's topic in Trees and the Law
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So is it the mesh or the strops that will stop root growth? It hasn’t got feet, it has roots that will not be inhibited in spreading out by the strops.
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Not ideal I agree, but how will it strangle the rootball? It’s only 1 strop.
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I’d enjoy finding that out as well. If no one responds I’ll make up an answer.
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Good to see my gloves are clean, dry and ready for another days work!
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Surely the pump being wanked is the most obvious answer.
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Is this oak slowly dying?
Mick Dempsey replied to ChrisNewport's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
We are all dying, some more slowly than others. Might be worth getting a tree bloke to come and have a closer look for cavities, fungi etc. Very difficult to assess properly from photos. Clearly had some major lower limbs removed, that’s the first thing to investigate. -
Fook all to do with Meghan and Harry in reality.
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Gym membership wholly and exclusively for business?
Mick Dempsey replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
This was asked on a FB forum run by that tree business guru guy who comes on here occasionally. Anyway bones of it was yes, just put it through. -
No, I dont think this needs to be expanded out. Being anti TPO doesn’t mean I’m anti bureaucracy or a libertarian or whatever pigeon hole you want to put people in. For instance in many French planning conditions you have to use a certain colour render or tiles on your house to match the rest of the village, and I agree with that. It means I’ve seen a system of local governance without TPOs, TOs etc. and it’s ok, plenty of trees everywhere in gardens. Like all English tree guys I was ‘born’ into the idea that they (TOs) are an essential part of the furniture. I reckon that maybe 1% of what has TPOs on actually deserves to be conserved by law.
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I don’t believe that LAs should have any say on trees in gardens. We don’t have any here, save for a handful of trees marked as ‘classé’ We are led to believe this will lead to the desertification of garden trees, but it doesn’t, people like trees, they plant them, enjoy them and cut them down when they like.
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Are you against TPOs? (I think you know my feelings about them)
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Isn’t that the point?
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I say we give him his money back, it’s only fair.
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CoE said that the TO won’t revoke a TPO just to save people making applications to do work on a tree.
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Think you’ve missed the point there Stubs.
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I don’t really care much for TPOs, but I’m getting rather fond of this one. Hope it’s a keeper!
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Really? I just light mine with dry kindling and burn dry oak, acacia, hornbeam all the time. No need to mollycoddle it with a complicated menu of wood. Get it in, give it some draw, enjoy the heat.
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How do you mean, branches are 2x heavier?
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Swept the flue this summer?
