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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Just what the doctor ordered after a bastard day lowering conifer hedges.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    FWIW I wouldn’t have bothered taking them off, just touched them up with a dremel. (At least that’s what I did to good effect) As for grease it’s not under high speed or temperature so no need to be too picky.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    If I’m honest, I’m lost now (not in life you understand, I’m super happy and focused, really, really happy)
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Honestly you could have that stuff over the fence back inside the garden in 10/15 minutes tops. There’s always ‘what ifs’ but by the time they came round you’d be inside the correct ‘airspace’
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Perhaps, I was just moving things along, so we get to one of my favourite hobby horses.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    The majority of people who make a song and dance of being genuinely happy are often fighting depression in my experience.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Purely looking at the pics, I reckon you could easily rope that back over the fence without issue. Just make sure your knots are good, collect the money and get the ladders for free.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    I always enjoy the use of the words ‘hacked’ and ‘brutally’ as if there was a kinder, gentler way to fell trees. Maybe a slap up meal at their favourite restaurant beforehand?
  9. Mick Dempsey
    I wish i had remembered that clip!
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Odd, slightly disturbing thread. Not sure what the OP wants from this tbh.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Lesser stag beetle (again) did you find it in a chip pile?
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Now I don’t want to get into attacks on her appearance or the like, it’s pointless. But this is the shadow Home Secretary, as thick as shit, there are periods during this interview that it seems like she is retarded. Cannot even weasel and waffle adequately.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    So, my very enterprising nephew (22) is doing a bit of grounds maintenance, hedges, small trees and the like in the North Yorkshire area. We’ve been chatting and he is keen to learn a bit so he’s not just a bloke with a ladder and a saw. Naturally I want to encourage him, I’m trying to steer him towards a short but worthwhile course along the lines of the 10 weeker I did at Merrist Wood back in ‘95. It’s too far for him to come ‘daan sarf’ for that long. I very much do want him to get real climbing tuition, as I did at MW. Especially at the money he’s likely to have to fork out. So suggestions and recommendations please.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Now here’s a thing you didn’t know you didn’t know. Eric Stoltz did five weeks filming as Marty McFly in Back to the Future. He was replaced by Michael J. Fox mid filming. Now, I have always wondered why Marty’s father looked so different and had such a distinctive hair style, it was because the original Marty looked like this.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    How so? It seemed to me the species were selected thoughtfully.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Whatever the answer is, it’s not the air filter.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I’m sure that in the process of working out a plan you researched what, if anything, other counties do. For instance Paris and Berlin have big parks, do they take any action?
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Balleygarrett near Gorey.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Nice work Don, did you just rock the root out with the loader?
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Good random thread. In the sixties and early seventies my parents (who were Irish) drove my sister, elder brother and I to Wexford from West Sussex every summer for holidays. We left early in the morning and drove through the day arriving at the Severn Bridge late in the afternoon (in a Vauxhall Viva or before that a Vauxhall Victor) it was a hellish journey for me, as the youngest I had to sit in the middle. I insisted (much to my father’s annoyance as it was expensive) that we stopped at the Severn Bridge services which I loved, huge vertical windows that looked out over the bridge itself. It seemed so modern and space age it captured my imagination. I bought my first Marvel comic and ate my first yoghurt there. Funny the things you remember. Here’s the view from the seating that I remember and the outside view.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    We had it as a blue blister beetle, but oil beetle seems to be another name.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Here’s one for you, found it on a woodland floor yesterday, we have identified it but might give you some fun.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    In answer to the OP I have had many instances where the owner won’t cough up and the neighbour has had to pay for the work. It’s rarely a huge amount, a couple of grand at most. The owner regards his permission as his contribution, he probably has little faith in a tree report paid for by your client (rightly or wrongly) Many years of this job have shown me not to take sides in any neighborly dispute, do what you are paid to do, do it well. No silly revenge leaving of brash.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Don’t worry about it, you’ll get paid, that’s all that matters. Your client wants the tree out, the owners not fussed, your client pays.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    I was only referencing you the other day in a discussion about climbing wear and tear. Good to hear you’re ok and fighting the good fight.

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