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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    It’s a cedar, and a crack like this is not unusual, there is a school of thought that says that the cleaning out and deadwooding of this tree has caused wind penetration and twisted the limb to cause this. It’s a school of thought I adhere to.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    They’re really good machines, it’s the handling of relatively minor problems that have ruined the experience here. If I was in the UK with the support of Ranger equipment I’d be in a different situation. Worry not.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    @Ty Korrigan I had similar issues with the two Multiones, they are still fixing one of them and I’m in dispute with them, it’ll get sold once it’s fixed. The incompetence is staggering, the lies and half truths make you doubt your ears. I can honestly say this has tested my mental health and with the purchase of the Avant I’m finally seeing a way out of the 18 months of hassle. My point, if there is one, is that you have to keep banging away, keep emailing, phoning, pushing and moaning, questioning and sending recorded deliveries. It’s the only way out of it, when you’re going through hell, keep going.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Blimey.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    The guy who sold me the new Ranger said the same thing, I have to wait till November which is no big deal. Told me my Ranger (‘15) is still worth 14k! Half the cost of a brand new one.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    There’s not much worse out here than getting stuck with ex-pats talking about renovating their properties.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Dunno, I’m not doing any renovation. I have heard lumber prices are through the roof in the US.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    There is in the UK, house prices sky high, people not going on expensive holidays spending money on their property. ps, you got that chipper back yet?
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Are you sure they’re not just a rebadged something or other?
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Depends on if you’re talking about professional tree workers or brash draggers who are on the dole working for cash.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Cos Oz is too hot and Canada is too rainy.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    We must have all noticed the myriad advertisements for staff, especially decent climbers or even half baked ones they can fine tune. I have seen a change in tone in the ads, companies are now selling the job like never before, ‘we have loaders, big chippers, do great work etc.’ As opposed to ‘no phones, no wankers and no wet legs’ like there used to be. Serious shortage of skilled and semi skilled labour. Businesses are going to have to up wages and that means prices to clients. Never been a better time to be a competent tree worker, I’d be off to NZ if I was 35 years younger (and a competent climber!)
  13. Mick Dempsey
    I think I was in my mid thirties when I finally understood that.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    A bit like The Very Dark Caves (it’s just like being blind!) in Father Ted.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I can’t find any references to that.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Needs must when the devil drives. (there’s another one for you)
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Agreed, not a scenario I have ever experienced first hand or heard of before. As a rule with evergreens once they’re gone they’re gone. be nice if you had photographic documentation.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Which countries out of interest?
  19. Mick Dempsey
    We were driving round London in a truck with my old boss (1996 ish) a 6 ft transvestite in heels waits to use the crssing in front of us, he stops to let him/her cross then quite calmly says “the things you see when you haven’t got your gun” then off we go, nothing else said.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Got this from Twitter thought it might get a few laughs. If my old man started a sentence with “many years ago….” I used to roll my eyes and take the piss, then I started saying it ironically, now I say it (in an Irish accent) before telling my nephew some boring old crap that has him telling me he heard It before, not that it stops me recounting it again. What did you start saying as a joke that you now trot out as a truism? Especially if some old geezer used to come out with it.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Seen those, look good, get through a standard gate as well. The knockabout grab is ideal for those imo.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    A lot of financial jiggery pokery went into that I can assure you. Thing is with a loader is that when you’ve used one for a while it’s inconceivable to work without one. I would rather sell shoes rather than cut bits up by hand and load them onto a truck again.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    @allseasons what did you end up getting?
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Just got an Avant after 3 Multiones, as I said before it’s all about back up. IMG_1590.MOV IMG_1612.MOV
  25. Mick Dempsey
    If it’s just maintenance work on them it should be compulsory to wait until winter. There are stupid directives around in our game about inconsequential stuff, it’s ridiculous sending blokes up in London Planes in high summer.

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