Mick Dempsey

It is that. Same post, night after night, just rearrange the words.

A diesel 230, in good nick low hours. As luck would have it, I’ve been talking to someone since this thread started and I think I may have succeeded.

You may well be right. I’ve fallen into the trap of not getting what I really want/need and getting a compromise solution before. It always ends with me being pissed off with myself for it.

Cheers Paddy, getting a lot of different views across a country of platforms.

Thanks, they do seem much cheaper, perhaps that’s why.

Looking to get a newer better 6” chipper. One of these has popped up at a good price, I know it’ll cost a bit more on fuel, but will it match the 35hp diesel on performance? Which is frankly very good. TIA

No excuses, this is what we need. The old ways are the best.

Not lickle Princess Missy! She would never take a poo poo in the garden!

Spent 15 of the last 20 Christmas days in prison though haven’t you?

Reminds me of some (very) old joke I heard about two MPs chatting. One says ”why is it that when we have a vote to outlaw badger baiting only 50 MPs turn up to vote, yet when we have a vote to decriminalize buggery the place is absolutely jam packed?” The reply “Not many badgers in the House of Commons”

Even on a shit day, you learn something, even if it’s how NOT to do a job.

Could be.

No better in France.

But where do they go? My theory is they’re after the engines.

Most safety workboots aren’t steel toe capped, they use a composite plastic against crush injuries. Saw will go through them no bother.

I always think my little 6” chipper reduces volume/compacts better than the bigger 10” one. Smaller chips stack together better than the bigger ones.

Refers to the lady in waiting asking that woman ‘where are you really from?’

The battery situation is why I won’t buy one, what is it about, shortage of lithium?

Well yeah, course. The economics of Xmas tree sales should be fairly easy to unravel. How old are they? How much care do they need before harvesting? What species fetch the best money?

Been a while since I bought one.

How many does this guy sell every year? What are they 15 quid each?

Deep Space 9, Star Trek spin off, Cardassians=alien humanoid race.

Here (in this particular corner of the internet) I have learnt an incalculable amount about my job. Our work often exists in a bubble of 2 or 3 people who don’t swap ideas with others because of the way the day to day work plays out. The first time I stumbled across it, I was googling if you could use Ailanthus as firewood, and I found a place where everyone was talking about the thing I wanted to talk about, magic! I remember the first time I saw an articulated loader on here, I think it was Dean Lofthouse with an Avant, I was astonished, there it was! The thing! Exactly what I needed made manifest, from that day I knew I had to get one. I chat about grinders and chippers saws and business, impossible in real life to get dozens of individuals with nearly the same lives and problems in one room. I see the way the bigger outfits take on larger scale jobs and I try to bring that knowledge to my work. I can even get an argument any time I feel like it. The manifold FB sites have diluted the membership of course, but they don’t deliver in the same way, here you get to know people and threads develop and information is easier to extract.

Strong Friday night energy, one of nature’s finest sights.

I used to be a jeans and no helmet guy. The advance in trouser ‘technology’ means I always wear them for climbing, except in the very hottest of French summers. Boots, helmet, trousers all the time now. As Rich says, bring lighter trousers, boots in the truck and change into it as soon as possible. Its like jumping into a swimming pool!