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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    I like Gary Lineker. Gets paid too much but that’s not his fault.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Thing is for most of us who cut trees down, getting off the job with a chèque in our pockets and a song in our hearts is much better than trying to organise a third party to come and get the wood (who often let us down) for usually little or no financial gain for us. That’s the bones of it.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    This has been discussed before, it’s illegal.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Got it Stubs, thanks.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I remember working in Chichester in 2000(ish) and seeing the resident peregrines. I think @Big Beech on here has some pictures.
  6. Mick Dempsey

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  7. Mick Dempsey
    I was back In Wisborough Green recently and saw a kite, amazing really how quick they have come back. Buzzards, kites, hen harriers, short toed eagles, all fairly common here in the Charente. Edit. Used to see Hobby hawks here till the drop in swallow numbers.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    In answer to KJ. I can’t see clients caring, or at least a significant proportion of them. For most clients it’s Do the job, Don’t smash anything, Here’s the money, Goodbye. Just the way I like it.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    This one has been knocking about for a few days. The general concensus is that he’s freeing a leaner that’s hung up on the tree he’s roped into. Scary.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    This is what I (and I assume some others) can see. I’ll inform Steve at some point. no offence intended.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Must be an issue then, I posted a link to the thread 15 minutes before you. Bill Pierce did the same thing as you. glitch in the matrix.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Are you blind? bizarro.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Here you go, pour a glass of wine, put on your reading glasses and fill your boots.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    I like the Oregon ones as well, I even framed a few, they hang in the hall.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    What’s the big deal? 12 disinterested women plonked next to a piece of machinery of which they probably have no idea of its function. Who uses a calendar anyway? One click of a button and I (should I so choose) can watch women every bit as good looking performing some astonishing feats of filth, and making a decent fist (no pun intended) of enjoying it.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Sounds normal to me. Just because the staff started to sell the scrap doesn’t mean they have a right to it.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I suppose it could. Having met the guy and seen the gaff I think rather that it was bought elsewhere in Europe and brought it here for private use. The hoops that need to be jumped through re. axle and chassis homologation and the general attitude of NO that the French foncières employ make registering imported stuff a Orwellian nightmare. Good point though.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Any trailer over here over 500kg has to have its own log book (carte grise) and own registration number and separate insurance to use it on the road. On the one hand it’s a pita, on the other it means trailer/chipper theft is more problematic because you can’t just flog it without paperwork.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Not here though, no log book, no Insurance, nobody wants it. i think i remember him saying he brought it over from Germany.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Quite right Joe, I do. Some of these bigger chippers are so cheap these days, I’m also looking to spend some money before the end of the financial year, it’s a dangerous cocktail!
  21. Mick Dempsey
    That’s what I was thinking Josh, no hurry I guess, it’s been for sale for two years now!
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Ffs Paul, it’s a lime, target prune all you like it’ll throw out growth no matter how many times you read out BS documents to it.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Good point re the stopping. 26cm or 10.3 ins Could machine feed it with the multione, I dunno, could be a waste of time, if I had the barn space I’d be keener. I’ve been looking at the tracked Jensen 340s, can transport one legally on a trailer, few of them knocking about recently.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Well, I can move it on the sly for half a dozen jobs a year, I ran a TW and a GM over here day in day out illegally. 3 tonnes is a bit different though. My Ranger would pull it (technically)
  25. Mick Dempsey
    https://www.leboncoin.fr/jardinage/1130198589.htm So, this chipper is very near me, been sort of for sale for a couple of years now, owned by some Belgian with a huge woodland. Tinwork looks shabby but to be expected if it’s outside in all weathers. I looked at it a few years ago but turned it down because A: it’s massive B: it’s not got a log book so illegal to pull on French roads C: it was a lot more expensive then. Does anyone know much about them? Are they really 3000kg? hell of a lot of chipper for the money, I could take a punt at that price.

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