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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Does this make sense?
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Surely Amey didn’t do the specs, they just do the work as it’s placed in front of them by the LA.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    As it happens a guy on the FB site told me, simply tightening the bolt that deactivated the pump when the attachement was lifted did the job nicely. 3 minutes work.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    We haven’t left the EU yet.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I walk away from jobs, not removals mind, I’ll take anything out, but silly reductions. The most recent was a couple of previously topped Douglas ( most recently by me 7 or so years ago, but they’d been done at least a couple of times before) that the client wanted even lower so it would have only 4 branches and be 4 metres tall. Another was a client who wanted the middle branches of an umbrella pine removed to leave a Y shape. Not really liking the client/having lots on can bring the high horse out the stable more readily.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Or not engaging in dialogue with the residents/protesters, what purpose would it serve?
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Ridiculous to judge this without knowing anything at all about it. Did you actually see the contractors walk away from the site or did you just come across the scene?
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Dont know either, but I hope that’s not your real name.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Of course I do, but I differentiate between an ancient specimen, which, lets face it we work on very rarely if ever, and the sort of trees that 99% of us work on 99% of the time.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Yawn.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Read this article before Joe, if this was a political debate then posting it would be called virtue signaling.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Lot of pointless blather.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    If you can get to the pipe behind the burner heat it with a gas burner flame. Switches the draw (and open a door or window for a couple of minutes)
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Love the way grabs it and pulls it back over after the mishap.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Yes, it was Steve who said about it, I’m guessing he’d be reluctant to discuss it publicly. I’ll pm him. thanks anyway.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    First play with the flail mower, pig of a job fitting it on at first, but got the knack now. It has a safety device that turns off the flail when you lift it up, there is a trick to override apparently so you can lower it on to brambles etc. @kevinjohnsonmbe is the MO guru on here, care to share it Kevin?
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I, occasionally, have the same issue. Runs fine but when you throttle off it’ll play up, like fuel starvation, so intermittent that I’m loathe to start cracking injectors or taking pipes off.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Ignore the first post, mines an 8 but similar issues I reckon.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    The cutting out thing is likely the ignition barrel, common problem apparently. The faulty batch causes a minor loss of voltage which the computer doesn’t like and shuts the engine down. If it is that, a simple call to Redwood and they’ll send you one out gratis, easy fix.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Nice vid, good scenery, big rigging. Enjoyed that.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    I doff my cap to you, chapeau sir! Good work. (Woody Paul)
  22. Mick Dempsey
    So I have been looking at a few chippers on line, bigger ones on tracks for machine feeding. I won’t give any specific examples for obvious reasons but when I see some ads I do wonder. 2008 job with 1100 odd hours, the hopper tells a very different story and then when you do the sums that’s 5 hours a week max. Who buys a machine like that for occasional use? In 20 months of having my ST8 I’ve put on 470hrs and I don’t let it run all day and it doesn’t come out every day. There’s no way, short of contacting the previous owner, to verify the hours on chippers/grinders. Just saying, caveat emptor and all that.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Very good, bit long! Lots of good stuff though.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Do Don’t worry about it, it will never happen, ever. long live unregulated tree works! Last refuge from the hi-viz/clipboard brigade.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Good lord no! In the pub or watching Pointless by the time it’s dark.

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