Mick Dempsey
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@Ty Korrigan is the house expert on them, I rarely cross paths, I don’t know why. I live in a relatively impoverished area of France, most residents are conservative (with a small C) not a very productive area for them I imagine. They're about, sometimes in numbers, but not rich pickings round here, lots of suspicious faces behind the curtains if a strange vehicle drives through the village.
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I hear them called ‘manouche’ General opinions very much mirror the views of what you (Brits) think. They seem to own a lot of decent cherry pickers which are useful for lots of work, not just trees, gutters, roofing etc.
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Trackers are not beyond the means of most people, you don’t need them till you need them. Here I never see the dids with a chipper, they just dump the stuff on the football pitch or wherever they are that week. I have had a chipper nicked btw.
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You’re not collecting facts. You're trying to create a scenario that doesn’t exist, everyone here has told you this, but you persist. I expect the FC have filed your letter carefully..
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Ok, but how do these guys get spares and repairs? First thing the suppliers want is the serial number.
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Sunday Noise Abatement Laws England
Mick Dempsey replied to hesslemount's topic in Trees and the Law
Don’t do noisy work on a Sunday if it can be avoided in any way, never mind laws or bylaws or whatever. To me it’s basic common decency.- 49 replies
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Back in the 70s when I went to school there were loads of lefty teachers trying to mould our young minds to their cause. Of course, we weren’t going to listen to those losers, so as soon as we were old enough to vote, in comes Maggie! How they must have cried into their padded elbow jackets. Teachers have no business talking politics, one way or the other.
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I see reports of stolen chippers almost every day. But where do they go? I doubt Eastern Europe has much call for them, they don’t bother too much with smaller chippers, using grab lorries and stuffing the lot into a bin from what I see on the net. I have never heard or been offered one here in France. There has to be some sort of market or they wouldn’t get lifted so often. So what’s happening to them? My personal theory is the engines are being stripped and sold separately. Anyone able to shed light, or even any theories on this?
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IMO it’s all worthless except as biomass (perhaps)
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- cotoneaster yew tree
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Doesn’t look like something I’d care to ingest.
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Never cleaned a rope.
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Robinia
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Whats your multione loader doing today ?
Mick Dempsey replied to digaholedumper's topic in General chat
Don’t worry Dan, I bought the equivalent Avant. It’s a long story, involving French customer service, weeks of delays and a breakdown of trust with the supplier. I still like the MO, but I cannot deal with the French franchise anymore.
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Yes unhinged. I don’t understand your opinion and I have no respect for it, why should I? You don’t seem to have any understanding of the subject apart from a couple of walks in the countryside.
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It’s not an invasive species. You’re beginning to seem a bit unhinged.
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This Michael Stone/Levi Bellfield story is shocking. He was twice found guilty by a jury, and now it seems he didn’t do it. I find it hard to see how that can happen, but it looks like it did.
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Go on….
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True, but I’m just factoring in the size of loader being discussed.
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One thing I forgot to mention is how much better the knockabout is for placing the grab in the right position to grab in the right direction, bang one end into the branch, swing the other side round, drop and grab. I won’t lie, on my articulated load I use the Klou fixed grab, however I used a knockabout for a good few years and got pretty handy with it. IMG_1583.MOV
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For a lighter machine (which is what Mark is thinking of getting I believe) I think the BMG knockabout is better than the Klou fixed grab. The weight difference is significant and gives you more carrying capacity. You can carry logs with the heel, it’s better for dragging brush backwards out of a garden and lining it up for a chipper. It takes some skill, but you can do some amazing stuff with it.
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There’s no need, there is no issue.
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It competes with trees for resources and light, lower down. It has done for millennia. But it won’t kill a healthy tree, like I said, look at an ivy covered tree, it never engulfs the crown, it sits just beneath, how it knows I don’t know.
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Nothing new, you’re just looking at it for the first time. Ivy doesn’t overwhelm the crowns of living trees, I didn’t know that until it was pointed out by David Humphries on here. Once you know that it all becomes clear.
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Tell us about yourself, are you involved with trees in your work, do you have any training at all?
