Mick Dempsey

I always think my little 6” chipper reduces volume/compacts better than the bigger 10” one. Smaller chips stack together better than the bigger ones.

Refers to the lady in waiting asking that woman ‘where are you really from?’

The battery situation is why I won’t buy one, what is it about, shortage of lithium?

Well yeah, course. The economics of Xmas tree sales should be fairly easy to unravel. How old are they? How much care do they need before harvesting? What species fetch the best money?

Been a while since I bought one.

How many does this guy sell every year? What are they 15 quid each?

Deep Space 9, Star Trek spin off, Cardassians=alien humanoid race.

Here (in this particular corner of the internet) I have learnt an incalculable amount about my job. Our work often exists in a bubble of 2 or 3 people who don’t swap ideas with others because of the way the day to day work plays out. The first time I stumbled across it, I was googling if you could use Ailanthus as firewood, and I found a place where everyone was talking about the thing I wanted to talk about, magic! I remember the first time I saw an articulated loader on here, I think it was Dean Lofthouse with an Avant, I was astonished, there it was! The thing! Exactly what I needed made manifest, from that day I knew I had to get one. I chat about grinders and chippers saws and business, impossible in real life to get dozens of individuals with nearly the same lives and problems in one room. I see the way the bigger outfits take on larger scale jobs and I try to bring that knowledge to my work. I can even get an argument any time I feel like it. The manifold FB sites have diluted the membership of course, but they don’t deliver in the same way, here you get to know people and threads develop and information is easier to extract.

Strong Friday night energy, one of nature’s finest sights.

I used to be a jeans and no helmet guy. The advance in trouser ‘technology’ means I always wear them for climbing, except in the very hottest of French summers. Boots, helmet, trousers all the time now. As Rich says, bring lighter trousers, boots in the truck and change into it as soon as possible. Its like jumping into a swimming pool!

The amount of diesel my Ranger uses I fully expect them to bring it back and ask for contributions.

Fair point.

Pretty sure that’s not it. They don’t fit them as standard on cars do they?

If someone won’t care, they won’t care what you paid, it’s still free to them.

What habitat is that you’re trying to save?

Dunno know Mike, I’m more comfortable as a Nelson Muntz jeerer from the sidelines rather than someone with any real insight.

To use another analogy, it’s at the point where the naked emperor has just heard a little boys voice from the back of the crowd shouting ‘he’s got no clothes on!’

Dunno, you just have to get them to take more care, sort of your job as boss I suppose. Unless you’re just letting off steam about it, which is fine.

Too true, I had some just like them 5 years ago, unbelievably (not really) I ran one of them over with the loader, and couldn’t bear to fork out again immediately. So I went back to my old aluminum ones. The lad that is learning to climb is borrowing my stuff. I got fed up of looking at him wearing a raggedy old Weaver and spikes with stapled together straps and realizing they’re mine!

Still struggling to work it out! Training day tomorrow so should get it dialed in. I’ll let you know.

New stuff arrived! Koala Courant, Distel spikes, rope n cambium saver. Life in the old dog yet!

Mike lives in Scotland Steve. Bellac is not too far from me but I’m not interested @5thelement is closer and this might be his bag.

I had a 550 rebuilt for less than half the cost of a new one. Lasted less than a month before going again, so I went and bought a new one. Now I know that people will say that it was done badly or whatever, and they’re right. But if you can afford a new one, get one is my advice.

Well, thanks I guess.

Their record of listening to public opinion isn’t very good. I read that the population is watching the World Cup (if they are able) and are astonished to see stadia full of unmasked people from around the world.