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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    There’s nothing wrong with running older gear and staying below the threshold. I ran a TW and an old transit for years like that. But there’s a lack of progress that wears you down after a while, you cannot (easily) get a new chipper or truck, it is no fun, nothing to look forward to, just year after year of the same sort of jobs.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Rake attachment fabrication done, see how it goes next week.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    @doobin You’re forgetting the VAT that the non registered company has had to swallow on purchases of chipper, grinder, loader, vehicles etc, thats in the 10s of thousands of pounds.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Re. the not stating the price includes VAT on the quotes. I’m not sure that’s legal. Tell a lie, looks like it is, just googled it.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    What engine is that?
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Let me put it another way. If someone crashes a sub 750kg truck/chipper does HSE get involved? No of course not, because the person was licensed to drive it, there was no obligation to train by the employer. The same now applies but for larger trailers.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    No, I don’t believe that’s right. The driver has the responsibility 100%.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Tar spot is no big deal, I thought all sycamores get it.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Your conscience notwithstanding, if the trailer was roadworthy and the guy has a licence, and it’s insured I don’t see how HSE have any input whatsoever. Happy to be wrong though.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    There is no reason why business owners can’t take a bit of time out to tutor their staff in towing trailers. A bit of reversing practice in the yard, some vids off the net, even sitting with them and talking through some issues (like taking wider lines round junctions) I was sitting next to my employee and he was towing the 2.2 chipper back from a job, we’re going down a steep hill and he’s barreling down there at the speed limit (80/90kph) I said hang on a minute that thing on the back weighs as much as the van, if something happens we’ll be following that into the ditch.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    One of the nastiest most unwarranted shitposts I have seen on here for a good while.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Yeah, but now I want to know what it was!
  13. Mick Dempsey
    I think it was @Joe Newton who told me how you can tie a really loose knot of some description in the rigging line so that it stops in the right place when the groundy is pulling it back up to you, then the climber just shakes it out or something. Was stupidly simple, but of course I have forgotten it.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Pita for sure. Sorry to hear this.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    My mate over here invested in trained guard dogs, they won’t eat a thing that a stranger gives them, none of his family were allowed to play with them except him, and they got refresher training from the supplier every few months. German shepherds, brother and sister. On simulated break ins the male would bark and try to attack the intruder as they scaled the fence, the female would hide herself nearby, she wanted you to get in so she could get you.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    ‘Unrelated thread’
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I’ll take your word for it, I thought it was 500kg here.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Where across the water?
  19. Mick Dempsey
    If all else fails use one of those crappy replacement ones with a plastic bag and rubber bands and drive around with the chipper half empty till the real one arrives. (and order two incase this happens again)
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    Mick Dempsey replied to sime42's topic in General chat

    I heard it on Steve Wright in the afternoon, so I phoned my brother who was working at home in Yorkshire, I said ‘turn on the telly, they’re saying someone flew a plane into the twin towers’ (thinking it was a little two seater or something) He said ‘no, it was a passenger jet, there’s people jumping out the building’ So we pulled into the Mucky Duck and watched it unfold there.
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    I read through the post thinking about this tree, then I saw the pic, it looks like a spindly next to nothing tree you could remove with a handsaw. Take it out when you like. Yesterday ideally.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    They’d tear him apart if he caught a hoglet and it squealed. He spectated with me.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    More evidence of them really, upturned earth, animal trails etc. Not a rare sight, but unusual to see so many. At the bottom of the field where they’re pictured there is a stream and some cleared woodland, thick regrowth and brambles, ideal for passing the day unseen.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Large family of wild boar in a field this morning at 8am. Taken from the van with an iPhone.

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