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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Blimey Steve! how to makes us all feel like we’re making a mistake!
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Looking at the vids of the latest London bridge thing. looks like some members of the public took him on, and one in particular was holding him down, till it looks like a copper pulled him away (suicide vest?) and gave him the old one two. Some brave blokes around.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    You’ll be lucky to get rid for nothing.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Basically it says use two ropes from now on.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Pete, it’s all but over. Like you said, a unique industry, so small it escaped the eye of Sauron for a long time, but’s it is being assimilated into the Borg (at least in the UK) finally brought to heel by the guys with clipboards and yellow jackets. (I’m aware I’m mixing the Lord of the Rings with Star Trek, don’t @me)
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Lots of conflicting advice for the OP. FTR mine is take it out in one go, poison the stump, ensure that gutters and drains are running clear.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    I see what you did there Pete?
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  9. Mick Dempsey
    That’s what I think as well, but my point was the guy isn’t just stringing the client along.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Your tree surgeon is following the official line on how to prevent or minimise heave, so he’s not trying anything on. Plenty of peeps doubt the efficacy of this method, but it won’t be causing any more damage. I always advise poisoning the stumps of acacias, then grind (after a growing season) once you know it’s dead.
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  13. Mick Dempsey
    Commercial dogging. (rained off today, expect more of this sort of time wasting nonsense from me)
  14. Mick Dempsey
    I was only thinking of finding an old copy of Levkas Man by Hammond Innes the other day! Read it twice as a younger man, good book. Enjoying the blog VI.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Beech by the look of it, there’s a report in the Daily Mail. Edit, here’s where it happened, someone who knows the area could google earth then do a street view to get a look at the tree.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Before he goes to the US they should send back that woman who killed that kid on the motor bike. (neither will happen)
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Their wood, their chip, what they do with it is their business, I don’t see where you’re coming from tbh.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Come and get it, all you can eat!
  19. Mick Dempsey
    What’s a ratty rail track?
  20. Mick Dempsey
    I’ve not been impressed with the winches on MOs (just on the vids mind) They look a bit anemic.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    A tractor mounted forestry winch on à pto will be in a different league to a portable petrol winch.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    What’s Mascis? Googled it but nothing.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Looking at it from the outside, it’s a done deal, mupping’n’squealing about it will have no consequence, they’ll tell you to get a tracked mewp in. In utility and public works they’ll get used to it, because they’re not against the clock in the same way as others. Game’s gone, or at least it’s on the way out.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    I’m in the first category btw.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Get a demo on one before forking out for that steam punk piece of junk. They are astonishingly good.

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