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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Good info.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    I’ll assume you’ve had prices and didn’t like them much so want to see if they’re realistic. I’d say a very well equipped firm, with enough lorry capacity would get that done in a day, depending on where you are in London £1500/2000 plus vat for the trees. Stumps are difficult to judge as the seem tight up to fences or buildings so that would be hard to say.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Leases are easier to get than a loan, because as you point out, you’re effectively renting it till you’ve paid it off. So if you default, they take it, less risk for them. Banks seem to love lease deals, they steer you towards them as I think they make more commission, only organising a loan when you insist. Just my 2c
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Same here, instantly identifiable. Very short, and swarthy, if that’s still a word.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    It did take a bit of time for me to get used to nearly everything being shut on a Sunday out here. A few supermarkets on a Sunday morning and that’s it. After a while I realised how important it is, and how the loss of it in the UK is detrimental to society. If no one works, no one loses out. It’ll wait till Monday. Anyway, I don’t want a row about it, so I’ll leave it.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Sundays are a day of rest, not a God bothering thing, just that society and humans needs a day that’s different, one that is focused on family or recuperation or reflection on why you’re doing it for the rest of the week. If you just want it to be just another day, another 8 hours on the treadmill for you and the rest of society, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, an endless cycle of money making and shopping, fair enough. But try to see how others might not want chippers and saws in a residential area one day a week even if that interferes with your enjoyment.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    I’m not stopping you speaking. I am questioning your observations.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Or take your family out for a walk, followed by a big dinner, turn the phone off and watch a film in the afternoon with a bit too much wine. If you have to work Sunday (apart from emergencies and highway) you’re crap at business.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Well perhaps. But it’s not pick-n-mix, these things aren’t that easy to nick, and the owners are often big blokes with chainsaws to hand.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    @Ty Korrigan is the house expert on them, I rarely cross paths, I don’t know why. I live in a relatively impoverished area of France, most residents are conservative (with a small C) not a very productive area for them I imagine. They're about, sometimes in numbers, but not rich pickings round here, lots of suspicious faces behind the curtains if a strange vehicle drives through the village.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    I hear them called ‘manouche’ General opinions very much mirror the views of what you (Brits) think. They seem to own a lot of decent cherry pickers which are useful for lots of work, not just trees, gutters, roofing etc.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Trackers are not beyond the means of most people, you don’t need them till you need them. Here I never see the dids with a chipper, they just dump the stuff on the football pitch or wherever they are that week. I have had a chipper nicked btw.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    You’re not collecting facts. You're trying to create a scenario that doesn’t exist, everyone here has told you this, but you persist. I expect the FC have filed your letter carefully..
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, but how do these guys get spares and repairs? First thing the suppliers want is the serial number.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Don’t do noisy work on a Sunday if it can be avoided in any way, never mind laws or bylaws or whatever. To me it’s basic common decency.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Back in the 70s when I went to school there were loads of lefty teachers trying to mould our young minds to their cause. Of course, we weren’t going to listen to those losers, so as soon as we were old enough to vote, in comes Maggie! How they must have cried into their padded elbow jackets. Teachers have no business talking politics, one way or the other.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I see reports of stolen chippers almost every day. But where do they go? I doubt Eastern Europe has much call for them, they don’t bother too much with smaller chippers, using grab lorries and stuffing the lot into a bin from what I see on the net. I have never heard or been offered one here in France. There has to be some sort of market or they wouldn’t get lifted so often. So what’s happening to them? My personal theory is the engines are being stripped and sold separately. Anyone able to shed light, or even any theories on this?
  18. Mick Dempsey
    IMO it’s all worthless except as biomass (perhaps)
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Cannot wait.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Doesn’t look like something I’d care to ingest.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Never cleaned a rope.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Robinia
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Don’t worry Dan, I bought the equivalent Avant. It’s a long story, involving French customer service, weeks of delays and a breakdown of trust with the supplier. I still like the MO, but I cannot deal with the French franchise anymore.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Yes unhinged. I don’t understand your opinion and I have no respect for it, why should I? You don’t seem to have any understanding of the subject apart from a couple of walks in the countryside.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    It’s not an invasive species. You’re beginning to seem a bit unhinged.

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