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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    I can only speak personally. I don’t know what’s in the pile, I have had countless clients swear blind that it’s all clean wood etc. only to find wire, roots or stones in it. I normally only chip what I’ve cut myself. When a client says ’I’ve started it myself, to keep the price down’ or words to that effect. I always think ‘well you wasted your time there then’ As I said, you may get someone hungry enough to cut you a deal. I’m only telling you how I approach it and every other guy who’s been doing it for a while does as well.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Good luck to you mate. I always charge more (or just walk away) if someone has started the job and left a load of crap on the floor for me to deal with. But you might get lucky.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Sorry to hear.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    I rarely, if ever, watch crane or mewp vids now.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    If you put the jockey wheel high so it’s only on the rear wheels it’s easy to manœuvre. On flat ground I can spin my big tipping trailer no probs.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    There’s a bloke on FB, Bart chipper Doctor or something, travels the country fixing TWs. Seems to know his stuff. 07518404414
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Incredible isn’t it? The French IW dealer near me has practically given up on them, started getting other makes in to fill the showroom. Maybe start looking for other brands?
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  9. Mick Dempsey
    Not just yet Stubs!
  10. Mick Dempsey
    I saw August Hunicke use them once on his Vermeers, but not since. Seemed good at the time, but depends on the flow. Jury is out for me
  11. Mick Dempsey
    How come? Are they talking to you from beyond the grave?
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Is that price inclusive of VAT?
  13. Mick Dempsey
    He was brilliant as Queen Mary 1.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Denis Waterman 74 years old. Good career, part of my TV life.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Agreed, my blue mark 2 was mostly pug, I wrote it off fairly quickly of course.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    They were always pricey. Mk1 Golfs. A 3 litre Capri Rs2000 All were deeply out of fashion and selling for buttons. Fetching really strong money now.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I should have bought all the Yamaha FS1Es I could get my hands on for a couple of hundred quid back in the late eighties.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Speaking of ads. They’ve pulled that one with the gorgeous black girl who goes jogging in the middle of the night through London meeting ‘interesting’ offbeat characters because she doesn’t conform. It might be for a bank or something. I watched it and immediately thought that she’d be raped and killed by the end of the week.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    I find it a very condescending turn of phrase. If an artisan said to me ‘I’m trying to educate you here’ I’d kick them off the property.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, but I have to say the phrase ‘educating clients’ is a bit of a trigger for me.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Might be a bit of frost damage from that cold snap we had a few weeks back. Lots of stuff took a battering. Wait and see.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Yes, but that was an unhappy client. It is all well and good being in the right, but the client felt you’d tricked him. A sub-optimal result.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Comical.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    There’s a difference between ringing up for removal into 400kg lumps (Stu has a little tractor loader) than a chainsaw mill screaming away for hours on end.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    I never offer anything. If they think it’s worth money I’ll put it on the floor for them and sned it up ready for collection. Or I have a bloke who comes and gets stuff, he never gives me anything, just turns up on the allotted day at the allotted hour, loads it and leaves. To be fair most clients ‘get’ it at the quoting stage when you explain that individual trees aren’t worth anything. I’ve said before, the idea of planking up a trunk on site whilst the client watches ‘his’ tree converted into a saleable product after he’s already paid to take it down…. Get it off site, out of sight, out of mind.

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