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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Second hand anything is always a finger-crossing exercise.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    No one is going to say “I haven’t really looked after it mate”
  8. Mick Dempsey
    And here she is, with the old Timberwolf and a Navarra that I bought over here January 2008.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    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.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    (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.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    A tipping trailer costs as much as a half decent 3.5 tonne tipper.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    3.5 tonne tipper.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Transphobe!
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Cherry is fine in a wood burner. Rots to a pulp very quickly if left to the elements, bit like birch.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Remind me what engine that has please Bob?
  16. Mick Dempsey
    A day on the grinder with decent teeth fitted is a happy day.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Pricing is rarely so cut and dried. Say I take an oak out for €750, I know that I can get it done by 1pm and so I’ll push the grinding which will be an easy hour and a half on a free afternoon, I am going there anyway so I’ll do it for €250, et voila a 4 figure day no sweat. But if a random client phones up with a similar size stump in their garden it’ll be €490. Sometimes it’s a discounted sweetener, sometimes it’s a straight out earner. I don’t want a third party involved, and I don’t want to go back to the site on another date to clear up or generally keep an eye on things.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    I get the same for a days grinding on my 35hp machine as a days felling/climbing. Or a grind on a tree I’ve done myself turns an average day into a bumper day. I’ve had it since 2014 done 500 hours. Good moneymaker.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Yep, spot on! I knew I’d seen it before.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    I can see ash and sycamore I think. Looks pretty legit to me. Dunno about the reddish wood, but the growth rings look too tight for Douglas or similar.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    They’ve only been here since 1860 ish.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Put a picture up, it may be regularly pollarded which may help.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    I can’t see it blocking with that angle. I hadn’t expected the reaction to this, so I’ve tried to find it again to ask questions, but it was on some FB page and I can’t remember which. One thing I have noticed from the photo is the snow on the roofs, so it has to be a mountain/ski town. Narrow entrances, steep slopes etc, I guess the guys there are used to finding solutions to issues like that.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    If you look that’s not possible, there’s a fence to clear.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Dunno, maybe it was craned in?

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