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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    I haven’t seen any of the films, but I see where you’re coming from. Giving awards for ‘art’ is always going to be subjective and liable to abuse. Paddington 2 and Hugh Grant didn’t get Oscars which was a scandal imo.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    I couldn’t watch all of it but he pretty much pressed all my buttons. ’educating clients’ Stopping tree surgery start up firms by colluding with insurance companies to prevent cover. MORE tree officers! More regulation. ’where’s the love of trees rather than money?’ Needs to blow his nose.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    One with the dog, 9 March 2020 with the Multione, 15 March 2021. last one today 13 March, late spring here for sure.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    I saw something on twitter that said the BBC couldn’t have handled it worse if they’d stood there and punched themselves in the face repeatedly.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    It’s just how it works out, I do plant hedges occasionally after removal and grinding of the old one. Most clients want to think about a new tree rather than incorporate it in the felling/grinding process on the day, plus it’s not always the right time of year to replant. Finally and most importantly tree surgeons charge strong money for their work. Paying top money to one for a simple job like that doesn’t sit right with many private clients.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    It’s a non issue, 50:1 is fine whatever some YouTuber opines.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Clients plant their own trees as a rule, or pay landscape gardeners to do it.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Tell the client it’s not ideal and the possible consequences, if they still want to do it, fine, do it or don’t. You’ve given your professional advice. As for the setting up of businesses by people who know nothing, great, more fresh vital organs for me when the liver decides to hand in its P45.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    G’wan…
  10. Mick Dempsey
    It’s the people agreeing with him that blew my mind.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Saw it on FB, decided not to post anything.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Yes, my current hired man is world class at that.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    It’s a battle tbh, I am undoubtedly a bit careless, so knowing that, I try consciously to make sure I place stuff like ground saws under chippers where they cannot be run over by loaders. Most tree sites are (to a certain extent) lunatic asylums with noise, shouting and stuff dropping, so I don’t really lose much sleep over little bits like this, it’s inconvenient and a few quid, it happens. Stuff like ropes going through chippers, groundies wandering under a dropsite, careless placing of saws and reckless use of the loader really get my gander up, which is not a pretty sight.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    I hold internet seminars on thoughtless and repeated damage of stuff if you want to sign some of your lads up.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Guilty as charged.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    2xChipper stabilizing feet bent when not put up before pulling away. 1x Ifor jockey wheel bent when……not put up before pulling away. All by me!
  17. Mick Dempsey
    A lot!
  18. Mick Dempsey
    I have a recurring situation where there’s a tree that the (80 or so year old plus) clients have fretted about. Most recently a perfectly decent white poplar over a chicken run, they want it removed cos they think it’s a danger but have balked at the price, understandably imo. So I try to explain (as sensitively as I can) that in all probability they will be dead and I will be long retired before it really becomes an issue, so why don’t we knock a few low branches off over the chicken run for a few hundred bucks and call it good. The relief I see in their faces is enough to warm a heart even as cold as mine. Point being, try and find out what really is the driving force behind their call to you and address that first.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Being in business is not always easy, you have to take the rough with the smooth.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Here is where you lost the thread.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    I think you totally missed the point, since you ask.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Why bother asking if you ignore the advice?
  23. Mick Dempsey
    If pointing out ridiculous hyperbole and your laughable contradictions is being a smartarse, well mea culpa.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Make your mind up!
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