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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    They have fitted the top stop button on the TW so guessing it’s French.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Oi mate! What are you like with a welder? Care to start a relationship?
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Ash.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Thanks, by and large a good dog, but Fox Terriers are a product of their breeding and need a close eye kept on them in public.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    On holiday.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    That’s true Pete, every make does have its detractors, just by sheer volume of units it’s inevitable. I think the difference is the amount of complaints and importantly the people that are making them. Not just inexperienced young peeps new in the industry for whom it’s “branch goes in, chip comes out and what happens between is a mystery” but more experienced guys like me who have used many different brands are seeing the failures again and again. I wish them well (Forst) on a personal level they’ve been top notch, and I hope they iron it all out, but my ST8 has been a nightmare that endures to this day (4 years later) the worst machine I have ever owned including chippers, tractors, diggers, grinders... I’m lucky in that I could afford to buy another machine and keep working, but if I was 25 with a couple of sprogs and a new mortgage a machine like mine could finish the business.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Height by width by length.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    They’re bloody massive out here.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    He’s just looking for advice Khriss. I have opined before about how industry bodies don’t offer any sort of guidance on how various trees react to pruning, just some old blather about ‘doing as little as possible’ Or ‘felling and removing with a more suitable species‘ Or the biggest laugh, referring to BS3998.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    You can prune hard, be it a maiden or a repollard, no need to go to growth points. @AA Teccie (Paul) seriously now, it’s handing out duff advice like that that gives tree surgeons (and your organisation) a bad name.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    We had to buy slide rules (that I never mastered) which in hindsight were Medieval.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    I misunderstood it as well.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    The triumph of hope over experience.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    I think we should just answer the question, rather than get drawn into the dispute.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Now is fine.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Washing out the fins of the rad in situ with a hose can reveal it is badly encrusted. If there’s more time, Its not much work to get it off completely to thoroughly clean it.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    If it is an overheating (engine) then that’s bad. My ST8 has a tendency to clog the radiator screen if I chip dead thuja or birch (those little platelet seeds are just the right size for the screen holes) If you don’t keep an eye on it it’ll overheat in minutes.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Pop off the round cap in the centre off the wheel with a screwdriver, you’ll see a big nut with a split pin, pull the pin out, and loosen the nut, then use the cutting head to raise the wheel off the ground. Remove nut and wheel will come off.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Good luck!
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Try to sell a one off cost against the annual cost of trimming. A decent grinding will prepare the ground for replanting.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    I have sort of made a bit of a speciality of hedge removals, grind and replant (or replacing with fencing) You have to sell it a bit and have the right gear, but it’s right good money, and they’re always pleased as punch with the result.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Anyway, to answer your question. It depends, on how neat they want the finish. Normally on a laurel hedge hack back, I’ll pick up the worst of the rakings and blow the remains underneath. Chipping wise, I prefer to blow it I to the back of the van, I will send it into the hedge but it can strip branches and leave unsightly piles. All depends on the client’s expectations.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    If you’re taking three foot off a laurel side is a hedgecutter enough? I tend to get medieval and use a chainsaw for that.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Drop the “&” and use “and” instead.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Lime I reckon. You won’t lean it from websites, learn to identify the tree in the field, then you’ll become familiar with bark, wood coloring, branch attachements etc.

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