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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Moorhen in French is Poule d’eau, literally water chicken which sums them up really. Always had a soft spot for these daft buggers, adaptable survivors who eke out a living in the most difficult of circumstances, preyed on by just about everything, and bottom of the ladder to ducks, coots and everything else that calls the waterways their home. My Jack Russell ‘Pirate’ was obsessed by them and the way they sought refuge under the banks of ponds. Dont think he ever caught one.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    True.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Look like a pair of Osprey to me.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    What’s it to you you nosy bastard!?
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Young Norway spruce I think.
  6. Mick Dempsey

    550XP Mk2

    Mick Dempsey replied to Cuttup's topic in Chainsaws

    You have to use the choke on a restart after a few minutes, even if it’s ‘hot’ My experience anyway. Never had a problem with starting or restarting.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    My flip-line of choice, big enough diameter for my hands to grasp. Someone else found them in stock somewhere or other when I raised the subject. I’ll see if I can find the post.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Lovely stuff!
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Ha ha. It goes like this.. Me: Have you got a thingumy for my chipper? it’s out of action. Dealer: Yep, one sitting on the shelf in front of me, £200 and I’ll send it this afternoon. Me: £200! It’s only a piece of plastic, I’m sure I could pick one up for buttons elsewhere. 30 seconds of silence… Me: Ok, I’ll pay with a Mastercard, big number is…
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Cos the pigeon took a shit whilst sitting in one tree but not the other.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    No.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    This is a question I need answers to.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    No I can’t manually turn it.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Put in an adjustable restrictor valve on the rotator grab to slow down spin and snappy grab. Lovely to use now, no longer like a fairground test of reactions. IMG_2151.MOV
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Looks like they’re in a zoo or something. Some mothers are really smart about where they raise them, others really stupid. My guess is this is a smart one.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    No need to think we’re arguing, just discussing. I can assess someone’s ability within a morning’s watching and working with them. A bullshit merchant will be found out in minutes. No one has wasted anyone’s time.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    The problem (if there is one) is employers sending guys out to do work they are not yet capable of, because of pressure of work. I remember getting sent out to reduce large trees over traffic and properties straight out of a ten weeker. You didn’t want to say it was too much for you so you cracked on ending in damage because you didn’t know how to do it.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Heartwarming stuff.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    That seems unfair. If someone wants to invest in their own future and fund a training course in order to get a skill why shouldn’t they? If they give up in a year who loses? Only them and their time/money. You cannot get any sort of work without tickets and now you’re saying you cannot get tickets without work! I was 31 when I did my 10 weeker, do you think I had the time or inclination to do an apprenticeship?
  20. Mick Dempsey
    After having a photo competition where you perused hundreds of tree climbing photos?
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Agreed, bigger than they looked.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    I forget now @David Cropper ?
  23. Mick Dempsey
    I got used to just using them till they went off, then putting new cheap Chinese ones on I got from the Rayco supplier in Dorset. Not as easy now with Brexit and parcels and all that.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Green wheels are OK, I just hate the toxic mess everywhere. I was Chez Cropper recently and he showed me a grinding wheel that’s a lot better and less messy.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Is that the secret? I find them useless, hardly affect the teeth at all, gave up on them.

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