Mick Dempsey

Few less spoon whittlers on the planet? meh.

Peds took a fall couple of days ago, broken femur and T12 vertebrae.

Are you confusing Stubbs with Constable? Or am I missing something here?

Only when you’re ready Peds.

Ah yes, point taken.

“Ours is not to reason why, ours is just to do or die” What are you, the hedge police? Its a nice neat hedge, impressive size and now it looks bang on.

That’s my brother in one of the pics, he’s 6ft1 so I dunno. He’s no mug (my nephew) so it was fairly priced, everyone was happy afterwards. I wouldn’t contemplate taking on something like that these days. He used a Genie wheeled lift, great tool apparently.

I know, but not my place to say. He did ok is my understanding.

Not me, but my nephew in Yorkshire. Some of you may remember he spent a year out here in France working for me. He runs his own gig over there now. He sent me pictures of this hedge he’s just finished, thought it merited posting on this thread.

Well call me next @#+¥ing year then! Jesus H Christ, You have to leave your own house, drive to theirs, knock on the door, act all nicey nicey, talk to them for however long, all in the hope of securing a day or twos work. Yesterday I drove 40 minutes to what sounded like a promising job. They were nice enough (the couple) the job was two small medium ash over a septic tank, piece of piss. I pointed out a 3/4 dead cedar right next to the house. I said if you want to spend money on trees, that’d where I’d start. She says no initially, then asks if I could just leave the trunk and cut every branch to a foot or so (still attached to the trunk) so it looked like a giant heated hair roller (she thought it would look like modern art) I said no, that’s stupid, I won’t do that. Anyway half an hour later, I secure a days work doing the ash. Funnily enough it was a water mill very near a chateau where I worked for an American couple years ago. A few bits and bobs the main job was a single big Leylandii removal. We parked the chipper and truck next to it first thing and whilst filling the saws the husband appears and without a hint of embarrassment asks if we can do the other stuff first as the wife wants some alone time with the tree to say her goodbyes! I said no way. Sometimes I think line clearance sounds nice, no public, just head down and go. Then I remember I’m usually drinking tea on the sofa by 2.30. Swings and roundabouts etc.

I think Difflock is from Northern Ireland, so maybe for them a hot dry summer is a rarity.

Had one a little while back, a client I’ve already worked for, money not an issue. Removal of a really big red oak over a house, I took some lower limbs off a while back so I know the tree, awkward logistics, lots of thinking. Anyway the husband and wife are out there with me and we are talking money, and she says “we won’t be having it done for 2 to 3 years” I splutter that I cannot price for two years hence, and that I could well be retired by then. Another drive home muttering about bloody time wasters!

How would that suit you?

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Which is why it got retired.

Old climbing line is fine for light rigging, even the tail end of your climbing line. I prefer polypropylene three strand, less stretchy. Which is what I was using today as it happens.

Is Britain really inching back towards the EU? BBC.COM The summit between the UK and EU on 19 May will be the first since Brexit - the very... A long article about the UK EU relationship going forward. Try not to bunch up your panties about the click bait headline.

Morning all. Hoping @peds checks in today with some good news. Cool and clear here, Hazard sweet chestnut to dismantle next to a property, hung up on a couple of others. Sounds tricky but shouldn’t be. Back by lunchtime.

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I’d replant.

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A light snood soaked in water would be effective and easily removable for a few moments.

The UKs entry is all over the radio. I find it beyond awful, I turn it down. I predict Nul Points.

Correct @peds it is not a yew😊 Monterey cypress/Macrocarpa. Reminds me of a call I got from a client asking me to look at a yew in his garden “one of the tallest and oldest in West Sussex” he proudly proclaimed. He was a bit crestfallen when I saw it and told him was a circa 60 year old Macrocarpa. According to google it’s only a 100 years old. I cannot warm to these trees, never pretty, always a bastard to work on, smell bad, always lots of smashed up rubbish in the crown.