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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    It’s a kind offer John, thanks. Both of mine are gone now, but some advice would have been handy at some points. Maybe rename the thread? @Steve Bullman
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Got a picture? That always helps.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Yep, I think you’re right.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    750, pretty much the equivalent to the MO 49 hp
  5. Mick Dempsey
    On the subject, I bought a newer mk2 the other day. According to the guy the newer ones run a different bar/chain combo. So he got me a new bar and chain for the older one (the bar had seized anyway which is why I went in there) so I was running the same on both. What was he talking about? The width or what?
  6. Mick Dempsey
    No, I meant a full head of hair.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Never alone. Haircut. Accent. Never relax in your presence.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    I might be moany and old, but every day I go to work with something you’ll never have.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Disappointed and disheartened that we haven’t willingly thrown ourselves into a pointless survey for a guy who prior to his engagement here knew zero about Ivy, trees or anything relevant really? Your posts were condescending to the point of insult, were we supposed to be impressed and grateful a soi-disant Scientist wanted to explore a theory that we all knew the answer to anyway? We gave you answers, you weren’t interested unless they fitted your theory formulated one day on a walk. You learned a lot from the friendly and the non friendly arborists by the way.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Cheers Peds, I cannot post links for some reason.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    All start somewhere I suppose. IMHO those microchippers are not ideal for a start up. Ok for the odd minimum access job/through the house job admittedly. You need a minimum of a TW125/GM130 to really pose any sort of threat to bigger firms. I know people will say “it’s just to get me started till I can afford something better” Whereas owning it is just preventing you from getting what you really need.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Anyone interested in the backstory, punch on @Johnelle profile and see the thread from last year. @daltontrees and @Chris@eden will probably want to see the updates.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Plus knots as simple as that don’t really get ‘invented’ it had probably first been happened upon by some Arab sailor 4000 years ago. It seems to have two full wraps around his D ring..
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, possibly, but according to Wiki the Munter was brought into common usage in the 50s/60s this pic is from the 40s
  15. Mick Dempsey
    From a French site, Paris in the 40s. Srt, some kind of slip knot on his harness, anyone know the knot? I seem to remember Hap Johnson using something similar on his famous “coffee break” tv ad. I think he’s using a hatchet to repollard the plane tree. Not much new in the world.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Amongst all the caps lock, multiple usage of punctuation marks and general nonsense, there’s always a particularly outrageous statement and the above is the one I picked. Here he is creating an apocalyptic certainty based on zero evidence and little to no knowledge. Preceded by a “now let’s get serious” Good idea!
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  18. Mick Dempsey
    Follow the bored bloke making up scenarios about something he has almost no knowledge of.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Like a lot of Andy’s posts.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    I understand the national insurance part, the problem is when it comes nowhere near covering the individuals cost, multiply that for countless hundreds of thousands of an aging population and you get a shortfall, so money is diverted from other sectors to pay for them. As I said, it’s not my firm viewpoint, just can understand why it happens.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Purely from a hypothetical point of view if person A. Gets dementia or whatever and they have a house worth a quarter of a million quid. Their specialist care over a number of years costs say 200k, then why should their estate not pay for it? Why should the taxpayer foot the bill and the children pocket the lot?
  22. Mick Dempsey
    As long as I have the internet to argue with strangers I’m happy! Big Macrocarpa gone down in Bude town centre just now, video on Twitter. People saying it’s a Cedar of Lebanon, I’m trying to get a bite, but so far no luck.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Had a cold for a couple of weeks, then the wife caught it, but was more like flu or Covid, really wiped her out, then it bounced back to me, shivers, aching bones, headache, painful kidneys. Kept testing for Covid but always negative. Over the worst now, but still rough, just a painful cough.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Yes, are you using Leylandii as an example of an evergreen that has evolutionary adaptation to resist high winds?
  25. Mick Dempsey
    What evergreens are you talking about?

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