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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Like all attachments on these machines, you have to be realistic. It excels at lifting, most other things it does ok at. I’ll have a look at the relief valve pressure (just for you) but I had an 8.4 before and it was the same. I see firewood suppliers out here with splitters with winches to bring meter billets to the splitter, serious stuff. Even then, splitting a meter long piece that’s not ideal (no knots, perfect species) is not a formality.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Of course, I started out here doing it by hand, then I got a stand alone petrol splitter which was great, then a 50cm ram on my Kubota tractor, then this with a 1 meter ram. It doesn’t have the flow to push through a full meter billet, which was a disappointment, but I made €500 splitting wood today, and it does my personal splitting for the house.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    It’s ok, not a patch on a big tractor one with an auxiliary tank. But work is petering out so needs must when the devil drives.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    A client I’ve worked for many times. Dragging an upturned stump “somewhere else” Trying to grind these stump is a pita as most of us know. Then splitting some pine and fir.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Wassat?
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Good idea, tell them he’s been one of their slave workers you read about.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Poor choice of words, on the books would be better.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    There will be a record of him, a social security number, tax record etc. He has just got to phone them up and tell them he wants to start paying his stamp, start up as self employed (or has a proper job) He won’t have to back pay his stamp unless he wants to, which sounds unlikely.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Hobbys (Hobbies?) Follow the swallows up from Africa, used to see them a lot in the village here, since the drop in swallow numbers I haven’t seen them in years. Never seen a Merlin (to my knowledge) but seen quite a few short toed eagles, you think it’s a buzzard till a buzzard flies near it then you realise it’s size.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Yeah, I see this sort of stuff on various social media platforms. Strange attitude, but she got her just desserts.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Let the dog out for his last run last night, nearly stood on this little fella, a Midwife Toad apparently, off on his way to my pond to release the little ones.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    First one a pop, judging by the way the bark has sheared off. Second, maybe an ash.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Just saw on Twitter that once in ICU (with covid19) there’s a 50/50 chance of kicking the bucket. Heavy stuff
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Apparently not, it needs to be more than 60% alcohol to be effective, vodka is 40%.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Pasta?
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Glad to hear you’re both ok now.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I don’t disagree with much of what you say. But it’s unlikely that people (like me) are going out there “to make a shed load of money because there was no competition” more that they’re doing it to keep their heads above water.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    The AA were largely irrelevant in this. You could go to work from the off, all you had to do was read what the government said. Very similar to here in France.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Me smoking a cigar in Havana 2001/2 (and drinking a mohito)
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Probably a Cuban royal palm. Strange you used an Alamo stock photo.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Seems a bit extreme. You borrow the dog from your family don’t you? It’s not locked up for 23 hours?
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Are you ill or self isolating because of contact with someone?
  23. Mick Dempsey
    I have a mate who built a treehouse for 15/20k for a millionaire client, two separate houses, walkway between them, whole nine yards. Kid never used it.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Thing is with diggers is that they are so cheap to rent. I had a Takeuchi 1.5 tonner, it was brilliant, but hardly ever used it, so I sold it. Now when I need one I can get a 2,5 tonner delivered relatively cheaply. Hiring an articulated wheeled loader is a different story.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    It’s become a bit of a long running soap. Maybe Ford are just hoping you die of old age.

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