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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Först seem to have turned the corner a bit reliability wise. I was sorry to read about the thefts on FB as well. Hope you can keep moving forward.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Flailing brambles, not something I would do commercially, just did it to secure a bigger tree job on the site.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Why is that?
  4. Mick Dempsey

    Queen

    Mick Dempsey replied to eggsarascal's topic in The Lounge

    I saw a picture of her this morning on the telly, thought she looked very thin.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    You could be right. I thought it might be something rare, never mind.. Thanks.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    I could probably google around, but I know you guys like a challenge. Found at ground level in an old wound on an oak. Extraordinary red colour.
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    Pretty sure it should be ‘who in their right mind’ I’m not a grammar Nazi but you keep writing whom and it grates. All you’re doing is repeating yourself, I’m countering your point, saying lots of people (not you thankfully) want to be Prime Minister. I don’t recall, Maggie, Blair, Brown, Cameron or May being subjected to many personal or family attacks making their job unbearable. You are butt-hurt because your boy got kicked out on his rear, deservedly so, by his own party. Now you’re blaming the press, and in a way you’re right. Like Tommy Docherty said ‘The press got me the sack from Manchester United, they kept printing the results’
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    Lots of people. Loads of people, do you want a list?
  9. Mick Dempsey
    The one I mentioned in the post. Maybe read it first.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Really? Maybe don’t be a lying hypocrite, conduct yourself with a modicum of decency and you’ll be ok, too much to ask for Boris it seemed.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Re. The transit. All 3.5 tonners carry about the same 1.3/1.5 Tonnes max, doesn’t matter how much you spend. Get a 7.5 tonner.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    But at where do you draw the line at what defines tree work? Is a gardener not allowed to reduce a hedge or get a ladder and a bowsaw to take down a 20ft birch in his clients back garden? Do you really want a regulatory body dictating what safety signs you have up in your workshop? Some bloke you never met checking on your work with an option to rescind your licence and your living if you don’t meet their expectations?
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Enlarge on that please, not sure what you mean.
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    Who really ate Toblerones? (Apart from Alan Partridge)
  16. Mick Dempsey
    I reckon before the growing of sugar in the New World it was very rare and expensive to get something sweet to eat or drink. So a bit of even mildly sweet birch juice would have been very welcome to our forefathers.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Like many of us, I find the logistics of tree removal one of the challenges. I always compare it to the fox/chicken/grain puzzle. So for instance, I cannot really tow a chipper (even a 750kg) behind a already overweight transit. Or I cannot bring the loader home on the trailer when there’s already two tonne of waste wood on there, thereby lengthening the working day, or even pushing the job over to the next day. So if I can get rid of chip or wood locally, saving me fuel, time, and wear and tear on vehicles I’m very happy, I’m certainly not going to ask for more than a bottle of wine.
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    Great film, never forget the bear attack.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, this one is good.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    I think you mean white birch (bétula pubescens) when you say silver birch.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Silver birch can be pruned no problem, what you’re proposing with that line is eminently doable. They do bleed a bit in spring, when the days start lengthening and before the leaves have come out. Important to go back to live growth otherwise the blind end sometimes just dies. You will get rot pockets so you can usually reprune to previous cuts maybe 3 times before either coming back underneath to start a new cycle or a complete removal. Never heard it called a weeping birch. I would say Betula Pendula Pleurer is a weeping birch.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Great comedy thread. Poor people should scour the countryside for wild berries and odd bits of wood to burn in their flat in Nelson Mandela house, Peckham.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Dempsey Tree Surgery 🇬🇧🇫🇷 (@dempseytreesurgery) • Instagram photos and videos WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM Dempsey Tree Surgery 🇬🇧🇫🇷 shared a post on Instagram: "Lombardy Friday. Easy end to the week. 8 pops down and chipped. Had an opportunity for the Junior climber... Easy life.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    People who get free wood don’t care about other people who don’t (get free wood) freezing to death shocker! (that’ll learn ‘em)

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