Mick Dempsey
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Yeah, rhythm and quick cycle turnaround is key on making zipping worth the effort, so complicating it with blocks etc. is a no bueno. Height is key, agreed.
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The slings/strops are a fixed length, not enough for a clove hitch.
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Yeah, I was a bit harsh on Daffs. Heres a still from Dr Zhivago from the famous scene, apparently filmed in Spain, which I wish I never found out.
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Tulips are really the jewel in the crown of spring flowers. Daffs are all well and good but a bit monochrome. Stuck a few quids worth of assorted bulbs in November, then you get this..
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Do you have krabs both ends of you zip line strops?
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I don’t do a lot of zip lining, but maybe I should a bit more. The other day I was using the technique on a leaning acacia over some chicken houses. It went great (sorry no pics) I went up, took the rope and strops and zipped down the branches rigging them behind forks so they were securely held. When it came to the logs on the way down it was a bit more fraught. Problem is you can’t get tension on the log, so it drops and you have to hope the strop catches the log, I cut big slots in the logs to help it hold, but it doesn’t overcome the fact that the log is in free fall for a couple of feet and could escape the strop. I ended up holding the strop tight and pushing the log off with the other hand. It went ok, no dramas. Is there some way of cinching it in tight, something obvious I’m missing that the cool kids do? TIA
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Nice weather for it as well!
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You can be over-insured.
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They’re not trees Mark, they’re Leylandii.
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I know you run a serious biz. Thats all legal though is it? You’ve run it by a lawyer?
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How’s the payback over 2 year thing work?
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Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
Mick Dempsey replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
Not really Les, rather than start a new thread, I searched some key words and this apposite thread popped up, so I thought ‘there you go’ and here we are. Tell us about your plans for a fun packed Friday night on the internet,- 148 replies
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Cheap for a reason then? Oh well, like you say, still good business.
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Why don’t you want to top them?
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Not illegal if you have a showman’s licence or something like that (don’t know the details)
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If you don’t want to top them, and they don’t want them out completely you’re out of options.
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Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
Mick Dempsey replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
Dear client/customers, If you want to pay cash (with the vat on of course) at least get it out of the bank in advance, I don’t want to go round your house again later on, -
Without wanting to sound arseholey, you must be quite new to the process. These sound like 2 jobs that other firms have turned down because they are a nightmare. Do the clients want to keep the screen of these hedges? If the answer is a firm yes then your problems are just beginning.
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Catalpa with defected union opinions and advice please
Mick Dempsey replied to Twentyeight Trees's topic in Tree health care
Work on a few out here, hard pollards order of the day, 1 year later they’re right back. -
Catalpa with defected union opinions and advice please
Mick Dempsey replied to Twentyeight Trees's topic in Tree health care
Take out the lesser half and a hard prune, they’ll come back from any sort of hacking. Then repollard every few years. -
Agreed, a topper for instance, 35cc, flat out a lot of the day, day in, day out, can last years, amazing really.
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That’s more of a motto for life!
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I have a new transit arriving in the next couple of weeks. Single cab, twin wheel tipper. Maximum capacity for chip. I will die on this hill.
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UK rules on filling cans with diesel at petrol station
Mick Dempsey replied to Squaredy's topic in Large equipment
Here, the petrol stations run credit card pumps a lot. So you can go out of hours with no one there. They don’t give a toss anyway, only issue I’ve had is when there were riots in the major cities about baguettes or something. They wouldn’t let you fill a can in case you were making firebombs. All forgotten about the next day of course.
