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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    A lot of farmers think his honest appraisal of the issues and difficulties involved is refreshing. I’ve never seen it mind, my brother who’s in farming told me, so that’s not gospel.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    In a word the problem is Countryfile. Back in the 70s/80s/90s the countryside was to be avoided, boring smelly and full of thick peasants covered in animal shit. It was great, we had it to ourselves. Thanks to that program, everyone wants a piece of it, all thinking they’re Kate Humble or that ginger farmer bloke, all centering themselves with the help of Mother Nature.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    No one I know on here is anywhere near there, sorry.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Northern France is a big place. Can you be more precise?
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I’ve usually cut them with the saw before it becomes necessary.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Outdated maybe, but I have lived in both scenarios. In the UK after the ‘94 Sunday trading laws it all changed, England changed, and not for the better. The continent stayed the same (or at least France where I live) Sunday stayed special, a different day, shop workers didn’t have to work Sunday, tradesmen wouldn’t dream of making unnecessary noise/disturbance, everyone respected downtime one day of the week, doing what you want, with who you want. It’s better. You think you gained freedom with a 7 day week, but you lost it, now there’s no respite from work over there.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    But what about the people living next door to the client when you rock up with your unimog and chainsaws to take a tree out yards from their front room with their family round for dinner? What choice do they have? To sit there and spend time with their relatives while you rattle their windows all day? Its selfishness, fook everyone else, as long as my needs are met.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    I’ve told this story before but it bears repeating. Left à tracked chipper on a trailer and it got nicked (yes I know!) over £10k of uninsured stuff. Put up a reward and the guy who nicked it figured it would be an easier payday than trying to sell it. So we arranged to meet in a Newhaven pub car park to pay the reward (£1000) and I’d get my chipper. I phoned the coppers dealing with the theft, and said if you can supply a plod with a warrant card we can nick him. They declined, asked if I could delay it till someone was available! Anyway I called in some big mates and just took it, no money changed hands. Unhappy thief phoned me up as we drove home threatening to burn down my house etc. Pissed ourselves laughing at him!
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Haven’t seen it advertised, I’ll try and catch it. I remember Robert Kilroy Silk spent some time with some as part of a documentary. They didn’t come out of that looking very good either
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Interesting twist!
  11. Mick Dempsey
    You’re trolling us now aren’t you?
  12. Mick Dempsey
    I have to admire your willingness to opine on stuff of which you have almost no knowledge.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    What species of trees are the victims?
  14. Mick Dempsey
    It’ll climb walls and buildings, fence posts and treated fences. No trees are immune, none seem particularly attractive The real unanswered question is why doesn’t it overwhelm the crowns of living trees? Yet a dead tree gets engulfed. How does it know?
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Yeah, seen a lot of his stuff of the sosh. Great set up.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    You are a spectacularly ill informed. The tree hugging sorts you speak of are (at least in my case) time served tree pros who have worked around and often in Ivy for many years, tree huggers we are not. Ivy does not strangle a tree to death, otherwise there would be dead trees everywhere as there is Ivy on trees everywhere. What do you do John?
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Got a nice little freebie yesterday. Customer was clearing the workshop belonging to her ageing father. Gave me these unused ropes. The thicker blue one is at least 70 meters long. Splice an eye in the end for a steel Krab and that’s some grade A natural crotch rigging rope.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    I thinks it doesn’t refer to ADB, more that ash has a thin crown. Ivy doesn’t overwhelm the crowns of trees anyway, it stays just below in every case I’ve seen.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Good info.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    I’ll assume you’ve had prices and didn’t like them much so want to see if they’re realistic. I’d say a very well equipped firm, with enough lorry capacity would get that done in a day, depending on where you are in London £1500/2000 plus vat for the trees. Stumps are difficult to judge as the seem tight up to fences or buildings so that would be hard to say.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Leases are easier to get than a loan, because as you point out, you’re effectively renting it till you’ve paid it off. So if you default, they take it, less risk for them. Banks seem to love lease deals, they steer you towards them as I think they make more commission, only organising a loan when you insist. Just my 2c
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Same here, instantly identifiable. Very short, and swarthy, if that’s still a word.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    It did take a bit of time for me to get used to nearly everything being shut on a Sunday out here. A few supermarkets on a Sunday morning and that’s it. After a while I realised how important it is, and how the loss of it in the UK is detrimental to society. If no one works, no one loses out. It’ll wait till Monday. Anyway, I don’t want a row about it, so I’ll leave it.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Sundays are a day of rest, not a God bothering thing, just that society and humans needs a day that’s different, one that is focused on family or recuperation or reflection on why you’re doing it for the rest of the week. If you just want it to be just another day, another 8 hours on the treadmill for you and the rest of society, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, an endless cycle of money making and shopping, fair enough. But try to see how others might not want chippers and saws in a residential area one day a week even if that interferes with your enjoyment.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    I’m not stopping you speaking. I am questioning your observations.

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