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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Ha! You see them advertised from time to time for silly money, the ads often imply they’re like Thor’s hammer and will transform you into a tree climbing phenomenon.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Leopard slug, big fella. Difficult to imagine an impatient slug, but there he is.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Only one to call it. Félicitations!
  4. Mick Dempsey
    I bought an 088 20 odd years ago, not a lot of laughs, use it for the odd pop or cedar. Clients like it more than I do.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Live and learn, doesn’t really present a threat to the tree does it? (real question not rhetorical)
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Why is that?
  7. Mick Dempsey
    I never understand why people get indignant when a client asks for a bit off. Do it or don’t do it, no harm in asking. Let’s be honest we pull most of our prices out of our arse anyway.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Honestly Kevin, you’ve done yourself no favours with this pursuit. No one is going to reveal their figures to you. The numbers he was quoting were irrelevant, 10s 100s or just a handful of thou, it made no difference to the point he was making. You need to step back.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Retired Climber is ok by me, can’t understand the witch hunt. Got some interesting stuff to say, shake you stiffs up a bit (to misquote Withnail and I)
  10. Mick Dempsey
    No being serious. Sometimes I notice that say I’m quoting a job I don’t want to do particularly, like a hedge reduction. I start out saying I don’t really want to do it, don’t do this stuff anymore, pita etc. They seem disappointed as they want it done. Chit chat a bit about the garden or something. Then you give it the old ‘well I suppose I could do it, maybe it’s not that bad’ and all of a sudden they’re thinking ‘he may just lower himself to do it! Lucky us’ and the price goes out the window. Or telling them you’d probably be too pricey, so they think ‘we’ll show this bloke we're not cheapskates, we’ll hire him, that’ll show him!’
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Anything on reverse psychology?
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Like I always say if a client moans about a delay. ‘It’s been there 50/100/200 years, it’ll wait another couple of weeks for me’
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Eucalyptus in the rain, without spikes. It’s a no from me.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    It’s a weird one, I see people on FB and other forums who just flip for that stuff, 9/11, COVID, cancer cured by cannabis, big pharma, pizzagate Qanon the whole nine yards.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Logs will bend those teeth on that grab (the grey topped one) unless they are tempered. Those ‘canines’ are a pita as well.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    I have found holly to be a very hard to uproot with a digger.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Never looked at it like that.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Thats what everyone says. They can’t run every pound that gets spent by every taxpayer by you. You get your say every election.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    People don’t like paying taxes shocker.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Yeah, we cut them to match, 5 minutes work
  21. Mick Dempsey
    €137 for 12 sets.
  22. Mick Dempsey

    Wood ID

    Mick Dempsey replied to ARV's topic in Milling Forum

    Thats too far for me Stubs, I know Douglas is reddish, the bark looks good and it’ll outstrip anything around it size wise.
  23. Mick Dempsey

    Wood ID

    Mick Dempsey replied to ARV's topic in Milling Forum

    Douglas?
  24. Mick Dempsey
    On the avant site à guy posted this. Brilliantly simple.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Lump em all together, make a go of it.

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