Mick Dempsey

Broad beans grown in the chip pile. Mahoosive!

Reinforces my earlier opinion, just have out what’s on your side, don’t get bogged down in pointless discussions with the bloke. But don’t (as someone suggested) poison what’s left.

Got any other pictures, further back? give us some more context.

Just put all the teeth on the blade on the end where you need them, job done!

You’re not going to kill it.

Often with neighbours it’s best to fall out early, saves embarrassment later on.

It’s a sycamore, so killing it would be difficult. Given the info supplied thus far, I’d cut anything on your side and bollocks to your neighbour.

Here’s the thing. In order to move the wood it needs to be stacked across the trailer so when I tip it it rolls out, so has to be approx 1.7 mètres length (not much use for milling) If I put it length ways it’s difficult, though not impossible, to tip out. I use the trailer to transport the machine so if the Avant is on site I can’t use it to unload back at base. You have made me think about the possibilities though, so fair play.

No, onto the waste log pile it went!

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This large and rather awkward cedar met it’s maker this week. Electric line, buildings, and most irritatingly, a underground ancient rain water collector just in front of the only felling zone. No rigging pics because you sort of get caught up in the moment, but a few others. We had to fell the stick across the aforementioned tank, but use logs to ‘span’ it to avoid its collapse. Slight back lean on the stem, but Dave put it where it was needed, no drama. Slightly underpriced but happy clients anyway. IMG_2956.MOV

Still got my Arbtalk T-shirt in the bottom of the draw. Can’t bring myself to use it for rag in the workshop just yet Of course, if there was a new run and a competition for the design…

Not inconsiderable oak over hundreds of years old bridge and historic walls blah blah. Ziplining and ringing down, big and small. IMG_2954.MOV IMG_2953.MOV

Silly, but I like silly.

If he had left his missus for an 18 year old girl his career would have been finished there and then. Everyone knew about this lad, it was all over Twitter at the time.

R.Kelly and Tim Schofield.

Very sad to say goodbye to a young dog.

Ever get the feeling you’ve been had! If this whole thing has been to lure someone into this, then bravo!

Young ones have the smooth bark.

Walnut.

Agreed, then become a T-Bird and marry one of the Pink Ladies.

Not today, but Wednesday. Had a reasonably hard morning wrecking out a tree, so by mid afternoon I was lying on the sofa doing feck all. Phone rings, a woman from a nearby town, a poplar has fallen over in her garden, insurance company want someone to sort it out. Smelling money, and scratching around a bit for work I say I’ll pop straight down. Big house by the river, she greets me at the gate and as we stroll round the back I suddenly get crippling pain in my stomach, and I realise there’s a very real danger I’m going to shit myself in an explosive fashion (in a pair of light colored cotton jeans) right there and then. Somehow or other I hold on for the few minutes I’m there, sweaty and almost incoherent I write out a quote and get out as quickly and politely as possible. Get in the truck, drive down the road, get out, scramble into the woods and unleash devastation behind me. In my haste I forgot to bring the tissues from the truck, I luckily find some tissues in my pocket, but that’s where the luck ended as my thumb went through (the horror!) I got the nod for the work so a bit of a mixed bag of a day as they say.

In hindsight I would have done it very differently, and better. I certainly didn’t do it in the most effective fashion. Pre-internet 2004 (just about) we were working in a bubble of a few guys who chatted about stuff, you didn’t see videos of other guys around the world (or even the likes of Reg in Manchester) doing crane jobs. Undoubtedly it happened but it wasn’t widespread or something the ordinary guy would consider.

No one ever said “ yes I’m sure, I’m a mint climber myself”

How long have you got?! In 2004 dropped a big oak butt in a garden in Woking without realizing there was a 15” main sewage pipe just under the surface. The groundy said he’d heard a funny noise when it dropped, I said it was just a redundant land drain from when it was farmland. Then the tampons, nappies and human shit started covering the lawn. The picture is of me ringing it down, I realised that it was too time consuming so I felled it in one.