Mick Dempsey
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I think it’d be a waste of money. Much better spending it on an 8x4 tipping trailer. Just my opinion of course.
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I had a 4wd one, was a great truck. If I were you I’d just build a chip body for the back and get a potato fork, three bits of chipboard will do fine, then you can collapse it when you don’t need it. It’ll take you 10 minutes to empty, save you thousands which you can put towards a decent truck. And yes I did this with a hilux for a year or so back in the 90s
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Presume you mean the old Mazda built Ford Ranger?
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Well yes, problem is it can distract the players for the rest of the season.
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Klopp to leave Liverpool at end of the season. I am no Liverpool fan, but that bloke has been brilliant from the day he walked in. Clever, funny, never arrogant, and produced exciting sides that I have enjoyed watching. It’ll be a poorer league without him. If they win the PL and City get fined and relegated down to the Vanarama conference or whatever…..I will laugh.
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Weather set dry(ish) for the foreseeable. Chance to get through some of the larger jobs that are sitting on the books in the coming weeks. Easy oak removal today, I always try and make Friday a bit of a breeze. Happy Friday everyone, roll on the weekend.
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I’m not a muso, so am only really aware of the first album. It represents a very definite period in my life, and transports me back there every time. Better listened to than watching the video I reckon.
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30 years since Dummy by Portishead was released. Brilliant.
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I read somewhere he’s sick of the character (Finchy) and hates people talking to him about it.
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Ah thanks, no real reason for asking, just nostalgic.
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Whereabouts are you exactly Lux?
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A classic was the ‘thin and lift instead of a reduction’ mantra they drummed into us at college. ’Educate the clients that this is better practice…’ So off I went, ‘educating’ my clients with religious fervour, a fair few fell for it. Their disappointment and feeling that they’d been done was obvious and going past at a later date I’d see the tree had been reduced to their original request or removed. I wouldn’t get anymore work from them, they didn’t trust me. -
Exactly.
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Blimey! Tough crowd. Especially considering some of the crap that gets lauded on here sometimes. Bizarrely, I like it’s industrial functionality. Perhaps the bottom breeze blocks could be stood up to reduce the amount needed if you see what I mean. I agree it’s too deep, lose a section on the seats.
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The question is who do you worry about looking like a clueless twat to? Other tree guys (the sort who post pics on Arbtalk Facebook) or clients who have been told the likely outcome and still want the work done?
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I had a job to quote maybe 10 years ago, mature spready oak, end of a garden, guy wants it down to 4/5 metres, leaving no leaf, just a forked stem. I said it’ll probably die, he says he doesn’t care, the trunk blocks something he doesn’t want to see, the canopy blocks light to his chicken house or whatever, he’s 85 if it dies it’s not going to be his problem. Its a days work, good money, so I do it. I’m happy, he’s happy. Anyway I was pricing near there this week so I went down the little lane and had a look. What purpose would have been served if I’d refused the work?
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Impressionnant!
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Now this is living! An outstanding crisp white from Saumur. Not available in box form, so going posh ce soir. Plus Igor in a too small bed the wife bought for him today.
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Well who hasn’t (when short of work) had a quote accepted and announced to the ‘lucky’ client that a job has just been cancelled and there’s a window of opportunity………..tomorrow!
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Easy peasy, no need to climb on the regrowth, just cut from standing on the pollard head.
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Freaks me out a bit every time I go back. I can get lost in the area I grew up in. After I posted I realised, he lived in Colgate not Faygate, not far away (where the toothpaste mines were)
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Happy birthday Stubs!
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No, I came late to the game (31) so once I felt I had learnt enough I started my own thing, I had no time to waste. Had I started 10 years earlier I might have had a more rounded ‘apprenticeship’ Course in those days, before the internet, you operated in a bubble, seeing little apart from what you’d learnt from your first boss, at least for me. Things like articulated loaders, crane work and SRT were things you occasionally heard about but you had no idea of how it actually happened. First time I saw an Avant was on here, I think it was Dean Lofthouse’s, as soon as I saw it it blew my mind.
