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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Lovely stuff Don.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Hywel Evans knocked it up for me a few years back, it has a mètre long ram as wood is often split in mètre lengths here. It struggles to get through a mètre billet if I’m honest. Very good on 50cm though.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Yes, I just said that I’ll split my own wood with mine, and very rarely a clients to secure a job, but I’d never put the hours on my machine for a relatively low income work. Buy à cheap tractor and a processor
  4. Mick Dempsey
    These.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I love my agri treads, great grip and use rubber road plates across lawns.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Smart work. Don’t you find those tyres a bit vulnerable under load in a woodland?
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Not losing money would be a novelty!
  8. Mick Dempsey
    A little while back I had a 130 tipper and frankly it nearly sent me over the edge. Bloody thing leaked everywhere, turning circle of a supertanker, lost a fortune on it as I couldn’t register it over here. Swore off the LRs for ever. But time is a great healer, and my brother in law is selling this 110, I looked around it (and underneath!) and it seems as sound as they can be. The 110 pick up is the only configuration that would tempt me, so I snapped it up. I’m keeping the Ranger, as I don’t want to depend on a LR for work, it’ll be a good tow tug, I’ll sign write it, and my nephew will use it to get to the yard. Its also the right colour, sort of matching the MO and the Ranger, which seemed like a sign. It’s in the spray shop atm, getting the dents sorted, plus I’ll get the roof and wheels done in black, new set of General Grabbers all round.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Not disputing or creating a row, just curious as to how this comes about, the conversations being had in offices and how their policy changes manifests itself in the field.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Unless they’re using cranes or mewps, a small one gang firm should beat the big outfits (on price) on smaller work day in, day out.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Yes they are but they do get lost, a 13mm m8 is a standard anywhere though.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    How do you know this? Are they advertising where you are? How are they getting to quote the smaller jobs where previously they weren’t?
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Visual tree assessment(ing)?
  14. Mick Dempsey
    I’d guess 35 years. There is a sure fire way to find out exactly of course!
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I don’t believe removing this tree will cause any issues whatsoever. The ’leaving a stump to avoid heave’ is nonsense, crack on.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    I think you are one of the most least knowledgeable people about the industry on here.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I have a Forst and have dealt with Redwood, I believe they would have changed it whatever.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    As an aside my nephew (new to the industry) has said that it seems like the bosses are on this Arbtalk and the workers are on the FB version, which tickled me a bit
  19. Mick Dempsey
    I think you’re overestimating this platform Joe. Theres no reason to believe they wouldn’t have exchanged the machine anyway.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Can’t say any fairer than that, good result.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Whilst I dislike the idea of ‘educating’ clients I agree with the idea that ‘remove and replace with something more suitable’ is a big problem with the arb industry in the UK. Try telling a client in their 50s or over to take a mature sycamore out a put a rowan or cherry in that they’ll never really see the best of. You will look like a chancer.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    I was.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    No, but it means the OPs tree will recover within a season and the piles of arboroculturists outside her door who have fainted in horror at the sight of her topped self sown sycamore will diminish, thank God
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Khriss, a sycamore like that can be reduced/topped multiple times with no problems. I know that it should turn its toes up and die of shame but A: It is unaware of its aesthetic value to the human eye. B: It didn’t go to college so doesn’t realise it should die to prove the arb fundamentalists right.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Yes he could have shaped it better, but it’s not a catastrophe, assuming it’s a sycamore it’ll come back strong in the spring.

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