Mick Dempsey
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Then don’t bother with a chainbrake and use it occasionally for old time’s sake. Just my tuppence.
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‘Must HAVE retired’ Simon No, still at it, not ready for afternoons of Cash in the Attic just yet.
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You sort of answered your own question really.
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Prolly, they’re prehistoric. Get a decent newer saw.
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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.
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No, my nephew (who was out here working for a year) has gone back for good, so no danger of him bringing it back.
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All done for 2021, routine stuff, I daresay the pollard would cause a fit of the vapors if I put it on FB.
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Impressive! Happy Birthday David.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah it’s an elm, I think that’s normal and it loses that “corkiness” as it matures.
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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.
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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.
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Paddington 2 on tonight, not to be missed!
Mick Dempsey replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in The Lounge
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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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Thanks for the advice John, but TW have a long history in this industry producing excellent machines and good backup through their agents. You seem to be one of those blokes who moan about stuff a lot, everything is a scandal or shocking or the like. So I’ll ignore it if that’s ok.
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The salesman showed me his chart, he has 40 trucks (commercial vehicles) on the assembly line that he has sold waiting to be finished, and only 4 in stock. His problem is he only gets paid on delivery of the vehicle not on the order. I am ok, I have the blue one so I’m not that fussed.
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I drove past the Toyota and Nissan dealers on the way to the Ford garage, not one Hilux on the Toyota forecourt and one Navarra on the Nissan one with the word ‘introuvable’ plastered on the windscreen, which in that context means unobtainable, or don’t bother asking. All about these semi conducter/microchip things apparently.
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Just had my new Ranger (that I put the down payment on in August) put back till end of February 2022. That’s why second hand prices are nuts, cannot get new stuff.
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Second hand anything is always a finger-crossing exercise.
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Thinking outside the box here…. Move to Russia for 5 years, learn Russian, buy a Ural truck cheap cos you are accepted as a Russian, drive it back overland, with your new Russian wife and kids, set up in business in the UK, then divorce your new wife, get her deported back to Vladivostok with the kids, got yourself a decent 4x4 with little to no bother.
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No one is going to say “I haven’t really looked after it mate”
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And here she is, with the old Timberwolf and a Navarra that I bought over here January 2008.
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Try and stretch to the best one you can afford. I was given that advice by a bloke in the pub when I was mulling over a cheap transit. So I heeded it and dropped 10k in 2001 on a low mileage ex BT van and it did me 14 years solid service.
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(Gotta get the wife’s Christmas present so must not get dragged into this!) It’s an option, but his budget is limited, so from a financial and business sense it’s not the best one IMO.
