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Mick Dempsey

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  1. How do they afford to pay for tree surgeons then?
  2. 6” chipper plus tipper 3.5 tonner 20k. Et voilà! You can do most small to medium jobs as efficiently as the biggest firm.
  3. 1st of April is the average first sighting for me here.
  4. Mostly on Instagram doing this from what I’ve seen.. To answer your question though, I dunno, there seems to be more than ever, like has been said before anyone any good will be doing their own thing. Start up costs very low in this biz.
  5. We need pictures.
  6. This is a very important point. Without it a simple rear-ender could end it very serious injury.
  7. @Ty Korrigan had issues, to put it mildly.
  8. I suppose a 25 hp petrol grinder will use that running flat out for 5 hours.
  9. Manufactured between 71 and 82 apparently. So 40 years old at the very least.
  10. If it’s a good as you say, even without a chainbrake, £90 Love the West Germany bit, so over 33 years old then.
  11. Overland Enviromental Services.
  12. @HRG you getting this? Business gold right here.
  13. Horse chestnut = Buckeye.
  14. My understanding (having been told by a GM representative) that no, just turn up the diesel. Exactly the same engine. But wait till the warranty is finished.
  15. What we call acacia they call black locust. Robinia Pseudoacacia.
  16. And that he used the word dirt for earth, but yeah, beat me to it.
  17. Guessing the op is from the states, they have different common names for trees. Sycamore isn’t what we know as a sycamore.
  18. Understood. I’d just say to the client £150 and we’ll do it when we have an hour or two free after another job, prolly a cubic meter of chip. Ideally cash on a Friday afternoon so it’ll get straight into the Colombian exchequer without delay. (I joke of course)
  19. They’re a Russian couple, doing it all the time for the Gram. Easy google.
  20. idiots.
  21. Half a day! Half an hour more like. Electric cable is no problem.
  22. If you set a w If you set a winch on top of the splitter, then the wire round the top of the big billet you can pull it onto the splitting deck upright. See it a lot here, saves an awful lot of ballache.

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