Mick Dempsey
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How old are you Saul?
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Sometimes if the block pulley is in place it’s easier to rig down stuff so the groundies can orientate the branch to the chipper. Cannot see the slope from the vid. How long did it take?
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Some decent rope running as well, nice job.
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New business start up advise needed.
Mick Dempsey replied to Lumberjock's topic in Business Management
I’m guessing he’s going to be at the chipper most of the time. -
Very similar.
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I know Mark, just trying to give some perspective on how things have changed. Back then it was no names no pack drill, on site with boots and helmet and keep moving. Joints rolled on the minibus on the way home. Not saying there weren’t a few laughs of course. There was one job I spent a day or two on (Polegate bypass in East Sussex) just as a man with a pair of hands, I wasn’t there on this particular day but heard about it. They had fenced off a little pond with tape cos of newts or something. Anyway during the day the lads had blown all the chip into the pond completely filling it up with chip. Ecology bloke turns up to check on everything finds his pond full of 25cube of chip. Not one fook given by anyone, nothing came of it.
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Using the new home made rake to clear up. IMG_1750.MP4
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Don’t really understand that, but I’ll take your word for it!
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I know of (end of last century mind) of a rail gang that would hand out lines of speed to their ‘staff’ on night work.
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Had the same issue, could not figure it out. Took it back, got a new one.
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We stop at 10.30 ish for a cup of tea and a sandwich, then again at 12.30 ish. both for about 20 minutes. usually home at 2 or 3 anyway.
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That is not a school of thought I subscribe to. What is that willow, 50/60 years old max?
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Tell him to stop sharing his joints with pigeons, they bogart them.
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So what Mark? If it was an oak that Bonnie Prince Charlie fingered his first girlfriend in I’d understand. It is a eminently smashable weeping willow.
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Funnily enough, whilst ascending and stripping a spruce in high summer I spied a pigeon nest with a bird around it. I cursed my luck as no one likes destroying nests. Then my eye was drawn no more than 2ft away from it to an Asian hornets nest that was well hidden in the top. I scuttled down ASAP and called the destructors. So they seem to coexist without problems.
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Getting better every year round here, leaves a bit discoloured but still mostly green. The worst seems to have passed. The conker tree is alive and kicking!
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You’re right, looking to annoy a possibly lethal insect pointlessly is nothing more than high spirits. What fun!
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He’s lucky to get out relatively unharmed, guy near me got attacked and nearly died, lost his eyesight in hospital for a while. As for dicking around firing stones at it, well it’s just foolishness.
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A bit like conkers I guess.
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Alrighty then!
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White guys suffer more from skin damage, more visible as well.
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Pas convaincu Saul.
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You means it’s a dead sycamore or a live one?
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I know what you mean, looks like beetle larval chambers on an elm, but I’m assuming it’s alive, and the colour is not elm like.
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My nephew sent me this, from Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire, no leaves so no point asking. Odd looking so someone might recognise it. Help me look like someone who knows their job please!
