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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Right then Gareth, let’s be having it!
  2. Mick Dempsey
    No, sharpening chains is very worthwhile activity, I do it regularly as part of my job. You are a waste of time on here.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Buy some chains, they’re cheap enough. You're a time waster.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Just buy the little guide Stubby posted, piece of piss to use.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Yep, no point mucking about. Last reduction was a waste of time and money.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Sorry to hear this, what sort was it?
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Yes, plenty of it here.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Did the TR8 have the non turbo v1505 Kubota engine?
  9. Mick Dempsey
    As has been said, it looks like a copy of a few others. It doesn’t have a name on it so a Chinese copy seems likely. Check the ropes on the door and check for bad leaks when it’s running with a candle. Might be fine and last a good few years, might not.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    You’re right though Stu, good reminder.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Then don’t bother with a chainbrake and use it occasionally for old time’s sake. Just my tuppence.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    ‘Must HAVE retired’ Simon No, still at it, not ready for afternoons of Cash in the Attic just yet.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    You sort of answered your own question really.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Prolly, they’re prehistoric. Get a decent newer saw.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I use a dustbin. One thing I try hard not to do is carry stuff around every day that I’m not going to need on that particular job. Otherwise you're humping around heavy pulleys and lowering stuff day in day out. It helps that my workshop/storeroom is attached to the house of course, means I can work out what I need with no pressure, back the pickup in and load up.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    No, my nephew (who was out here working for a year) has gone back for good, so no danger of him bringing it back.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    All done for 2021, routine stuff, I daresay the pollard would cause a fit of the vapors if I put it on FB.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Impressive! Happy Birthday David.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    That’s a kind of Ultra Orthodox Darwinism I’m referring to. Maybe the cost isn’t significant enough to affect its success. Like port wine birthmarks, ginger hair or being Welsh, we can explain why it happened scientifically, yet they serve no evolutionary purpose, but do not hinder either. They just came about and that’s it.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Something of a hobby horse (more of a toy pony really) of mine is our (humans) insistence on thinking that everything in nature has a reason or purpose, sometimes things evolve and happen that neither give an advantage to a given plant/animal or disadvantage them. They just happen.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Yeah it’s an elm, I think that’s normal and it loses that “corkiness” as it matures.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    I suppose these measures will always make some people unhappy. I would be peed off, but if we are going to move into clean energy/vehicles there has to be incentives/disincentives.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    It grabs even if the wire spring is broken. As has been said when weight is applied to the cam (if that’s what the grey thing is called) it locks it good as gold.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Just started again, though watching West Side Story atm. And I worked in the rain today so I deserve it!
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Mine lasted 12 years till I sold it, probably still going strong. Older sub 750s still fetch strong money. Whether they are built to last or not, they clearly do.

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