Mick Dempsey
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Funnily enough one of the first tracked chippers was imported by Arboreater from an Italian company., specifically for a highways contractor of my acquaintance, Big VM engine, heavy as fook. I owned it for a couple of years before coming out here.
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Alors, allez-y mon brave...
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Ditto on the ZZ.
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Rob D’s thread got me thinking about devices and techniques that have appeared and then become the standard, leaving the competition to catch up. I believe the little Echo is one of them, so light you have to check it hasn’t dropped off, but poky enough for most TDs. The 201 is like dragging a breeze block around now, judging by the vids and pics on social media it’s becoming the trim saw of choice. The Timberwolf/Entec 150: I remember the first time I saw one of these in action, I was using a 25hp Arboreater at the time and thought I was something. Then I worked with a mate who had bought one around 95ish and it blew me away. You could push it around like a pram and yet some real performance, I bought one soon after and for the other marques it was catchup time (edit, that was probably a bit later on reflection, turn of the century maybe) Anyone else? Saws, climbing devices, clothing?
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Been going on for years, I like their hustle and thought at first it was just a few logistical glitches, but it’s been like it for years now.
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Crazy stuff in the UK at the moment, sorry for your mate.
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Summer Branch Drop - Tree Risk Management
Mick Dempsey replied to Acer ventura's topic in General chat
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Summer Branch Drop - Tree Risk Management
Mick Dempsey replied to Acer ventura's topic in General chat
I would say, from seeing, and clearing up the after effects In public recreational spaces anyway. Move all benches and outdoor furniture away from large horizontal oak limbs during hot spells. Those are what I saw fail mostly in West Sussex anyway. -
Scorchio!
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Summer Branch Drop - Tree Risk Management
Mick Dempsey replied to Acer ventura's topic in General chat
Now I know that it doesn’t really affect me and all that. But (from what I read) it just says, the risks are microscopic, so don’t worry about it. -
Nasty, total concentration needed.
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Does your Facebook business page bring you in work?
Mick Dempsey replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Business Management
Watched about a minute. I do wonder if sometimes we forget what advertising is for, ie. to get us in front of the client, rather than win a Golden Globe. It was easier in the old days of course! Ad in the local paper and the parish mag, tell the salesman from Yellow Pages to piss off, and that was it. I remember when this was all fields you know..... -
Horrible fir over a line. Not inconsiderable in size. Two things I dislike about them. The branch unions are so ‘bulgy’ you can’t begin to leave a smooth trunk for flipping up and down on. The branches rarely snap off cleanly, no matter how you cut it, leaving it hanging by a strand.
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That’s a beautifully executed, hatchet job. The more I read and see about BJ, the less I think of him.
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I tend not to renegotiate, just back out, stating some old pony. I priced a biggish cedar, with wires and walls everywhere, I had next to no work at the time and went in far too low, even driving away I cursed myself as a fool. 6 Months pass and she phones up and says she wants it done, I had plenty on at the time so told her I had a bad back and didn't want to aggravate it. She was a bit miffed (probably because she had the other quotes in front of her!) Until you cut something on the tree you are free to turn it down, or even delay it forever. Unless there’s been contracts signed.
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It’s happened before...
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Exactly.
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Just a suggestion, maybe cripple cut the smaller one, walk out of the danger zone, then fell the bigger one, with a no barberchair cut of your choice.
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Hmmmm ISIS, was the destruction of ISIS the stated intention of the war in Afghanistan?
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Yeah, sorry, went a bit far on that one.
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It’s all very well saying let’s not fuck things up whilst sitting in Devon, or the Charente for that matter. Have you thought that the folks from N. Korea (where a quarter of the population were killed by US bombs) Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and countless other recipients of some freedom, might consider things a bit fucked up already?
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Firstly, assuming there MUST be a hegemony, why? Apart from eating dogs, which is a bit of a deal breaker for me, look at the Chinese in Africa, build a few roads, schools etc. then steal all the raw materials, at least they do it politely, don’t threatened to flatten the place, then do it.
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Why so eager to be subjugated? Just saying ‘oh sure they can be naughty, but have you seen the alternative?’ Isn’t much of an argument.
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Up to around 10 years ago I thought like you Kevin. Recently the scales have fallen from my eyes, and for many others both here and in the US.
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Not in hindsight, with any reasonable foresight, US foreign policy has been counter productive. Not in hindsight, with any reasonable foresight US foreign policy has been counter productive.
