Mick Dempsey
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This Michael Stone/Levi Bellfield story is shocking. He was twice found guilty by a jury, and now it seems he didn’t do it. I find it hard to see how that can happen, but it looks like it did.
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Go on….
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True, but I’m just factoring in the size of loader being discussed.
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One thing I forgot to mention is how much better the knockabout is for placing the grab in the right position to grab in the right direction, bang one end into the branch, swing the other side round, drop and grab. I won’t lie, on my articulated load I use the Klou fixed grab, however I used a knockabout for a good few years and got pretty handy with it. IMG_1583.MOV
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For a lighter machine (which is what Mark is thinking of getting I believe) I think the BMG knockabout is better than the Klou fixed grab. The weight difference is significant and gives you more carrying capacity. You can carry logs with the heel, it’s better for dragging brush backwards out of a garden and lining it up for a chipper. It takes some skill, but you can do some amazing stuff with it.
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There’s no need, there is no issue.
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It competes with trees for resources and light, lower down. It has done for millennia. But it won’t kill a healthy tree, like I said, look at an ivy covered tree, it never engulfs the crown, it sits just beneath, how it knows I don’t know.
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Nothing new, you’re just looking at it for the first time. Ivy doesn’t overwhelm the crowns of living trees, I didn’t know that until it was pointed out by David Humphries on here. Once you know that it all becomes clear.
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Tell us about yourself, are you involved with trees in your work, do you have any training at all?
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No mate, I don’t.
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Why is it so important now?
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Whats your multione loader doing today ?
Mick Dempsey replied to digaholedumper's topic in General chat
My 9.5 is up for sale, all sorted now, still 2 years warranty left. 70hrs I will put it on Arbtrader tomorrow. €38k plus vat. In France obvs but I sold the LR tipper on here to a guy with some hutzpah who got a bargain. IMG_0348.MOV -
t540i xp Husqvarna T540i xp Battery falling out
Mick Dempsey replied to Atom813's topic in Climbers talk
Odd, I have the 536 and that has never happened. The groundy has occasionally not slotted it in correctly, but there is no power so it’s obvious. Have you managed to replicate it falling out on the ground? (If you see what I mean) -
A bit yes, but there’s not much you can do with lots.
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Shuddup and take my money!
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In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!
Mick Dempsey replied to silky fox's topic in The Lounge
Did you row to America single handed? -
As you like.
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My offer was for either of us to leave this site if we lost, if that is beyond the pale for you just say so.
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Too boring.
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In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!
Mick Dempsey replied to silky fox's topic in The Lounge
Spoiler alert! He went to the US, proposed and she accepted! -
Better still, if it happens and we’re both still on here, if you lose you never come on here again and if I lose I won’t.
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It’s not for two years, ask me closer to the date, if we’re both still on here.
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We will see won’t we?
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When it becomes clear they’ll lose by a landslide with him at the helm they’ll switch to whoever’s next (prolly Sunak) They will lose anyway, but dump him and it might not be a massacre.
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He’s a dead man walking. I have always had sympathy for beleaguered PMs, not an ounce for him. Read on Twitter, he’s the third prime minister in a row to be brought down by Boris Johnson.
