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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Ha! However, by using a couple of Prussik loops on the line to be tensioned, a great deal of pull can be applied with a couple of kilos of dirt cheap gear.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, the penny drops. Not attached to each other, working in tandem. Surprised this isn’t used more in tree work to tension felling lines.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, but why are they joined together? Can some draw a diagram please? Not for me, I’m as sharp as a knife and understand it completely, but there are some slow buggers reading this however, too ashamed to admit they don’t get it.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, think I get it, but you’re releasing tension every time you empty the spool what’s the diff between one and two?
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Why two?
  6. Mick Dempsey
    I see what you did there!
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Those Pussycat Dolls are nothing more than bloody prostitutes, an absolute disgrace, cavorting around on stage wearing next to nothing, so the whole world can see their oh so tight shapely buttocks, seeming to offer filthy sex to all and sundry... (retires to the bathroom with the iPad) 3 minutes 18 seconds later. I have always enjoyed Bruce Springsteen’s version of this.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Looks like it was hung up there as a temporary measure, so it didn’t get lost while some adjustments were made, then forgotten about.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    I love this little saw! Poplar takedowns today, made life so much easier
  10. Mick Dempsey
    If an accusation has been made it’s entirely reasonable that he’s been interviewed to get to the truth. If the story is as you say there won’t be an issue.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    You asked why cut corners? The answer is to save time. If someone put those two stems on the floor from 10 ft by using the right cuts and a quick saw, thereby allowing the boss to invoice the job and get the entire crew on the next site, he’d get a pat on the back. Btw, he did face cut it, it just doesn’t show it in the short video (according to Mark Bolam)
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Everyone cuts corners in one way or other on jobs. It can range from dropping a big top in a tight space to save time to risking digging the saw in the dirt bucking a butt up.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Cockiness is a bit of an assumption Mike. Inexperience of cuts and species characteristics perhaps.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Here’s how it works. You're out pricing jobs on a Saturday afternoon, it’s going well, managed to secure some decent work. Then one of the appointments is a leylandii hedge to reduce in height, full of brambles, garden full of dogshit, customer an arse, but it’s an easy days work max. You are not really bothered about getting it, you almost don’t want to do it, but it seems silly just to say no so you give a price of £1200 plus vat. No loss to you if he doesn’t give you the work, but if he does, that’s a very nice earner. Suprising how many of those do come in though!
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Passed that place the other day and remembered that lunch by strange coincidence Mike. Place was all shut up, I’m guessing they’ve moved on...in one way or another.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    It’s something I’ve never acclimatised to in 13 years. A couple of sangers, cup of tea, back to work in 25 minutes, then home in time for Neighbours. Company policy.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    You assume and guess an awful lot.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Well that’s confirmation that he lived anyway. Good.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    If that were the case, and no tax or insurances of any sort was paid, then it’s a different kettle of fish of course.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    200 quid a day with that forwarder is next to FA, I can’t see how a free lunch changes matters, but let’s not get bogged down on that. As for the OP It does seem a bit steep given what facts we have been given, 800 plus vat, but we don’t know location or if other quotes were obtained. If he did get a quote (and they kept to the terms) before work commenced as seems likely then I cannot understand the issue. Interesting you used the word profiteering to describe the pricing, it’s closely related to the word profit, what you actually earn after all costs taxes, tyres, all that stuff. Too many think that just covering costs, drawing a wage and “providing a service” is all one should aspire to. I would be a bit upset about being called uninformed and ill educated mind.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Let’s not forget, we’re only hearing one side of the story. And Big J, I’m surprised that you haven’t mentioned on your précis of the job. Public liability insurance. Insurance to the van. Cost of woodchipper. The cost of sick pay, holidays, paternity leave blah blah. Income tax and everything else. The cost of going to price the work in the first place. If you want to work for friends for fuck all that’s your prerogative.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Just get other prices, you only have to step outside and look at a tree in your garden these days to have a tree surgeon on your shoulder asking if you want a price. As for the logs, if I can chip it, it gets chipped, firewood be damned.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Lots of good work pics on here lately. Pretty big lapsed lime pollard (45 plus years) to be brought to heel. 8+ cube of chip and a lot of logs. Not ideal for a Monday after a long birthday weekend.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Well it was 4 years ago, so probably. That chipper is so ugly even the dog can’t bear to look at it.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Half dead chestnut catching the setting sun. Starlings at the tips considering where to spend the night (won’t be there, that’s for sure)

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