Mick Dempsey
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Valid Complaint re Reversing Defender near a cliff edge?
Mick Dempsey replied to chopperpete's topic in Arb-Trucks
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. -
Valid Complaint re Reversing Defender near a cliff edge?
Mick Dempsey replied to chopperpete's topic in Arb-Trucks
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. -
Valid Complaint re Reversing Defender near a cliff edge?
Mick Dempsey replied to chopperpete's topic in Arb-Trucks
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. -
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.
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Ok, but I have to say the phrase ‘educating clients’ is a bit of a trigger for me.
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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.
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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.
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Comical.
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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.
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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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Exactly, made a rod for your own back there Stu. Ps. I estimate you could make 2134 aforementioned rods for your own back out of that crown.
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Others may differ, and I’d respect their opinion…. But I’d rip them out and replace with smaller plants in the autumn.
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Leylandii don’t really like being transplanted as they get older. Very often clients ask for bigger plants to give instant screening, but they don’t take. I have had experience of insurance jobs where we’ve put bigger plants (like yours) in and they died. You'd have been better off starting with smaller (1 to 1.5 meters) plants from pots, without removing the lower branches. My guess is they’ll all perish.
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They look too big to have been replanted, where did you buy them and were they bare rooted or in a pot?
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Where are you Nicki?
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Lots of folks are fighting battles you are unaware of J So attack them while they’re distracted!
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Looks like a lot of money for a pretty old 13hp loader. Very often the thing you buy cheaply to ‘tide you over’ is the thing that prevents you getting what you really need.
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Pink wisteria out.
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Same really. Back to normal or near as possible here in France.
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Bloody infuriating!
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I may have missed it, but how did you break your collarbone?
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From what I read on here and ads on FB it should be fairly easy to find work in Australia.
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To the OP. Try working as a groundy for a while on your days off, get a feel for the business and earn a few quid at the same time, plus building contacts. If you’re still keen you can start training and all that.
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‘Disguised employment’ Very good way of putting it, and very true.
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One of these days I’m going to do a review of the three types of grab, Knockabout, fixed (Klou type) and rotator, pros and cons,that type of thing.
