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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    No tree surgeon is going to go onto someone else’s property to reduce a hedge that the owner does not want done. Your neighbour will have to lie to the tree bloke about your permission.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    They wouldn’t have anything to knock off if the pharmaceutical companies hadn’t spent money on R&D to develop these drugs.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    While I enjoy these pics I feel you missed a trick here @KateH. Its too broad a category, and we already have work pic threads. What I believe we should have is narrower categories, like..… 1: Starting the day. 2: Training time. 3: Moment of truth. 4: Packing the gear away or whatever…. Coming from a recruitment perspective I think you’d get more staff centered pictures and it would encourage more thoughtful, funny or artistic pics, not just big trees and big gear.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Three threads not enough for you? Are you going to infest (in an ironically Ivy like fashion) other threads with your mental obsession?
  5. Mick Dempsey
    You’re just a paid shill for Big Ivy.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    I think he was just having a laugh 😂
  7. Mick Dempsey
    If the hat fits…..
  8. Mick Dempsey
    A bit later (when I was up the tree) the client asked Dave if he could chip up some branches he’d prepared. Dave said ‘you’ll have to ask the fat bloke’
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  10. Mick Dempsey
    Turned up to a job on Friday with a couple of others in a good mood, I had priced it and visited the evening before so he was familiar with me. Couple of Douglas to shin up, strip, fell and chip. Client came out and as seems to happen more and more looked at me all grey haired and decrepit then the others, turns to Dave and asks ‘are you going to climb the trees?’ I protest ‘look, I may be old but I still climb’ Client gets flustered and says ‘oh no, I meant Dave is much thinner than you, I thought that would make him the climber!’ ’So now I’m old AND fat am I?’
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Good idea.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Things have certainly changed in the last few years, a skilled labour shortage means good guys can pick and choose. Firms are now tempting guys with loaders, big chippers and the promise of ‘good work’ (even ‘job and knock’) in advertisements rather than just an opportunity to work.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    In other words you’re not climbing the ladder, you’re sliding down the snake.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    If you can’t climb anymore, you get another climber to do it for you and cash the chèque. The majority of competent climbers pretty soon figure out the only way to make any real money is to start their own thing. Once that’s running ok there is no other way of making any real coin. They don’t dream of surveying stretches of rail side sycamores as a surveyor or meeting the public as a TO, or anything else. It’s climbing or cutting/felling or maybe milling or hedge laying and the like or nothing, It’s the only thing worth doing in the industry. You’re just a form filler/box ticking wage slave otherwise.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    In my early days over here I used to quote from photos a lot. Most of my clients were expats, and lived a long way away, it just wasn’t viable to look at them all in person. Worked well, I’d say 98% went ok and done on budget.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Birds of a feather and all that.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    So they’re corrupt and lacking in conviction (according to you by being supine in bowing to SAGE) Liars as well. Nice bunch.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Maybe so, maybe no. But these were the rules that THEY put in place, made law and prosecuted people for breaking. It highlights the corruption and incompetence of the current administration.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    They MADE the rules, and told the public to abide by them. Then they broke them and lied about breaking them.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Worst Prime Minister I have known, a clown, a liar and a hypocrite.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Bring your climbing gear as well!
  22. Mick Dempsey
    There you go with those negative waves.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    It is literally all we do out here.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    It’s more of a theoretical exercise.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Gotcha, you little bastard!

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