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Mick Dempsey

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  1. That’s more of a motto for life!
  2. I have a new transit arriving in the next couple of weeks. Single cab, twin wheel tipper. Maximum capacity for chip. I will die on this hill.
  3. Here, the petrol stations run credit card pumps a lot. So you can go out of hours with no one there. They don’t give a toss anyway, only issue I’ve had is when there were riots in the major cities about baguettes or something. They wouldn’t let you fill a can in case you were making firebombs. All forgotten about the next day of course.
  4. I love how in almost every image of the asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs, there’s nearly always a T-rex looking up thinking “shit, this doesn’t look good’
  5. Didn’t know about a tensioner or greasing. Have to check that!
  6. Mine (Schliesing 485) has the hydraulic clutch, but it drives the belts, which drive the flywheel. So the OP says the belts are turning, but not the flywheel, so I don’t understand how that happens.
  7. You mean they’re locked solid? Cos if the belts turn but the wheel doesn’t … Can you move the flywheel by hand?
  8. This guy did it once, on his time, you were saving on buying equipment by regularly using stuff the taxpayer paid for.
  9. Nah, bottle it up and go bonkers.
  10. Or as Gloria Hunniford’s mother said ‘always buy good shoes and a good bed, because if you’re not in one you’re in the other’
  11. Planted a hedge of Photinia at the beach house, wanted to prevent the hoi-polloi from gazing over the fence at us gilded people! Igor making sure no working class sorts (more specifically their dogs) dare raise their eyes in our direction.
  12. No rope is going to break unless you cut it, even diy store blue three strand is strong enough to tow a car. I like a thicker rope, easier on the hands. It’s an orangey colour don’t know it’s name ‘Thor’s Underwear’ or something.
  13. So you’re the same as him then?
  14. My nephew is out there at the moment. Plenty of jobs (for now) You should be more proactive, contact the companies direct, don’t just sit there waiting for the world to beat a path to your door.
  15. Lunchtime if we’re going to be accurate.
  16. I suspect it’ll be rubbish firewood, waste of time. Euc is good but several days of sub zero temps will kill it. Sweet chestnut, hornbeam or acacia is your best bet.
  17. Are you using a mechanical device?
  18. My most famous bit of hutzpah was a few years back. Taking down some ash, saw a council worker driving past in a 7.5 tonne a couple of times, I saw him eyeing the wood. So next time he passed I flagged him down ‘you want this wood?’ ’well yeah if it’s free’ ’when can you take it?’ ’I’ll be back at lunchtime for a couple of loads’ Saved me a days work. You don’t ask, you don’t get.
  19. True, them’s the rules.
  20. You contradicted yourself in your post. I pointed it out, and off you fly with your standard tirade of insults and bombast, thinking you can just shout people down with insults over the internet. Of course you knew what I was referring to, it was as clear as day.
  21. I have a 485 Schliesing that I rate. 75 hp
  22. Looks like they were pruning/reducing gather than a mass fell.
  23. Normal from this guy.
  24. Either they’ll make a clusterfook of it or nothing much will change. Not for the first time, make your mind up!

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