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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Be very sure the Avant will do the job before forking out. My suspicion is that it won’t have the grunt to flail down stuff that thick.
  2. @Conor Wright where is this please?
  3. Back in the UK, on the very rare occasion I’d get asked to quote for this, I’d get a local farmer to do it, pay him, put my cut on top. They seemed happy to do it after the harvest for instant payment.
  4. Are you doing it yourself with your own equipment?
  5. Today we were flailing to reinstate a field edge for fencing. Few acacia in there and trimming back the hazel. The 760 has 80 litres a minute up from 70 pm that the 750 produced. Big difference in performance for the flail. Almost a pleasure!
  6. Broadly speaking, I think he’s doing ok, he’ll get smashed in the next election, but if he can retain leadership of the Conservatives he could regain government in less challenging times and do a decent job.
  7. You need to carefully hold the rear handle, release your hand from the chain brake. Swing it round and round then release it at maximum velocity into a bin at the local tip.
  8. Morning Stubs He makes some rash decisions, it’s a strength and a weakness. As I said the declaration in the first test probably cost the series. I thought the aussies were more pissed off (not without justification) about the ball change before the wickets started falling. As someone said “show me a moral victor, and I’ll show you a loser” ps. I may be wrong, but I think Stokes was appealing because he thought the umpire had missed the glove, he thought he’d got away with the dropped catch, though the furtive look on his face gave the game away a bit.
  9. Easy tiger! All I’m saying is there has been no real proof except for eye witnesses, and people can be mistaken, lots of people have seen the Loch Ness monster haven’t they? One factor may well be that black cats are more difficult to assess size from a distance than say a tabby.
  10. Not on the same plate you freakin’ psycho!
  11. But never black..
  12. Sausages and bacon a bit undercooked imho.
  13. Then what? Puma? Assuming it had a tail (so not a lynx or bobcat) it could only be a leopard at that size or a puma.
  14. Now Dougal…..
  15. So are they leopards ? I’d love it if they were living in the UK, and I saw on a nature program how adept they are becoming at living unseen amongst humans in cities. But I don’t see it being true, maybe a couple over the years that have escaped from private collections, but even then no evidence has ever come to light.
  16. The language used is ambiguous ‘potentially’ for example. And yet, not one camera trap picture, just sightings and conjecture. Its not beyond the realms of possibility, but surely in Gloucestershire of all places a dog being walked off the lead would flushed it out of wherever it was living and got ripped to shreds in front of its owner. It’s not exactly remote there is it?
  17. All I have ever worked on is post DED regrowth, 12” max. Nice, light wood, never enough to be a staple firewood, just guest appearances.
  18. Too late, I’ve gone early!
  19. I’m just making stuff up, waiting till 5.30 so I can open the wine.
  20. I like oak, well seasoned, splits nicely, long strong burn.
  21. Actually invites Witches into the house, so again, no from me.
  22. Robinia always seem to leave a ribbon holding the two split pieces together, meaning you have to wrangle it apart, so it’s off the list for me. Plus it smells of piss.
  23. Bastard to split by hand. Normally of course it can go straight in round.
  24. My old LR had a little PTO coming out the transfer box to the pump with a hydraulic tank under the drivers seat (ex utilities) The winch was slow but epically strong. I imagine it was very expensive to fit, it looks to me like someone came up with a much cheaper (and less effective) option.

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