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Mick Dempsey

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  1. As it goes my new transit 3.5t seems to take a great load of chip without looking too bad, must be the new springs or something. I thought about going the 7.5 tonne route but it wasn’t worth it for me. For me a single cab twin wheel 3.5 tonner, another truck like a pick up or even a smaller one like a kangoo or similar to tow the chipper and carry the tools is a real sweet spot for making money. If you’re going to ram the 3.5 with chip stay off the motorways, and don’t fill the dash/windscreen area with rubbish that the rozzers can see. And another thing, clean off any overspill of chip that’s on the cab roof or whatever so you’re not a snowstorm of chip as you go down the road. If you’re going to get nicked for overloading fair enough. Just don’t hand it to them on a plate by making yourself an obvious tug.
  2. It’s a clusterbuck of a film by all accounts. Snow White is now some kind of modern empowered female. The special effects are terrible apparently. Only what I’ve read mind.
  3. It’ll take any ratchet strap, you could even use two. Aren’t they supplied with the big yellow one?
  4. The levant is an old name for the Middle East I thought.
  5. Agreed. Crap like that is why we’re sometimes regarded as flim-flam artists.
  6. I have one as my everyday harness. I don’t have a lot of experience of harnesses as this is only the third different make I’ve had. Seems good though, comfy.
  7. I just cannot believe no one on the deck questioned it. On a job like that they’d surely be an RA and a method statement. Let alone a few guys on the deck with a few years behind them chiming in.
  8. I think we all need to see the vid.
  9. I would say HSE will already be getting some funny ideas, and rightly so.
  10. It was on a few social media sites at the time. FB Arbtalk I think. If you scroll back you’ll find it.
  11. I saw the vid. Strikes me on a job like that with money not an issue, a mewp should have been used.
  12. Hang on, I do remember a vid I did of setting the knot.
  13. Are you saying……I’m your father?!
  14. Learning the truckers hitch from your old man is a rite of passage. “you do this, then you do this, then this….twist it, and there you go »
  15. We’ve got motorcycle ones. They work well. Not interested in phone calls or music.
  16. Depends on what’s underneath. This will likely fail at some point
  17. Wordle 1,367 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Happy with that.
  18. Crack willow for me, and it’s going to split asunder any day now.
  19. No, very localised. All gone now anyway
  20. So much for spring, snowing here. IMG_1716.mov
  21. March 15 2020 in full bloom March 15 2025 10 days to 2 weeks behind. Tree perfectly healthy, just the vagaries of seasonal change
  22. Like a bit of classical eh Dave..

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