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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Work on a few out here, hard pollards order of the day, 1 year later they’re right back.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Take out the lesser half and a hard prune, they’ll come back from any sort of hacking. Then repollard every few years.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Agreed, a topper for instance, 35cc, flat out a lot of the day, day in, day out, can last years, amazing really.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    That’s more of a motto for life!
  6. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    I love how in almost every image of the asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs, there’s nearly always a T-rex looking up thinking “shit, this doesn’t look good’
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  10. Mick Dempsey
    Didn’t know about a tensioner or greasing. Have to check that!
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Mine (Schliesing 485) has the hydraulic clutch, but it drives the belts, which drive the flywheel. So the OP says the belts are turning, but not the flywheel, so I don’t understand how that happens.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    You mean they’re locked solid? Cos if the belts turn but the wheel doesn’t … Can you move the flywheel by hand?
  13. Mick Dempsey
    This guy did it once, on his time, you were saving on buying equipment by regularly using stuff the taxpayer paid for.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Nah, bottle it up and go bonkers.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Or as Gloria Hunniford’s mother said ‘always buy good shoes and a good bed, because if you’re not in one you’re in the other’
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Planted a hedge of Photinia at the beach house, wanted to prevent the hoi-polloi from gazing over the fence at us gilded people! Igor making sure no working class sorts (more specifically their dogs) dare raise their eyes in our direction.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    No rope is going to break unless you cut it, even diy store blue three strand is strong enough to tow a car. I like a thicker rope, easier on the hands. It’s an orangey colour don’t know it’s name ‘Thor’s Underwear’ or something.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    So you’re the same as him then?
  19. Mick Dempsey
    My nephew is out there at the moment. Plenty of jobs (for now) You should be more proactive, contact the companies direct, don’t just sit there waiting for the world to beat a path to your door.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Lunchtime if we’re going to be accurate.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    I suspect it’ll be rubbish firewood, waste of time. Euc is good but several days of sub zero temps will kill it. Sweet chestnut, hornbeam or acacia is your best bet.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Are you using a mechanical device?
  23. Mick Dempsey
    My most famous bit of hutzpah was a few years back. Taking down some ash, saw a council worker driving past in a 7.5 tonne a couple of times, I saw him eyeing the wood. So next time he passed I flagged him down ‘you want this wood?’ ’well yeah if it’s free’ ’when can you take it?’ ’I’ll be back at lunchtime for a couple of loads’ Saved me a days work. You don’t ask, you don’t get.
  24. Mick Dempsey

    New saw help

    Mick Dempsey replied to Alun's topic in Chainsaws

    True, them’s the rules.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    You contradicted yourself in your post. I pointed it out, and off you fly with your standard tirade of insults and bombast, thinking you can just shout people down with insults over the internet. Of course you knew what I was referring to, it was as clear as day.

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