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Mick Dempsey

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  1. 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.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Sounds normal to me. Just because the staff started to sell the scrap doesn’t mean they have a right to it.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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!
  7. Mick Dempsey
    That’s what I was thinking Josh, no hurry I guess, it’s been for sale for two years now!
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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)
  11. 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.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Because neither really believes they’ll convince the other, it’s us reading that is the target. Which is fair enough I suppose.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    What’s the issue with the pollarding? The amount done or the work itself? sorry, just got up, understand now. Seven a day for a two man gang with cars/pedestrians underneath is a bit of a pinch.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Not at all, just in “the field” no chance of topping up.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Pollarding limes this week, up to 8” dia, all with a battery saw, loved it. One drawback is that you can’t “fill up” between trees, you have to go up with a quarter empty battery and wait for it to stop.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    White birch and silver birch are different. Let Google be you guide on that voyage.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    White birch.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Why, what happens?
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Some more goings on. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5048819/Tree-vigilante-wanted-halt-chainsaws-pay-16k.html
  20. Mick Dempsey
    1mm 2mm as close as possible. Changing the anvil means hopper, roller box and a bit of luck that the bolts will free up. Rollers stay in box iirc. Not too deep, but not for the faint hearted.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Therein lies the rub.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Along with “lime” tree, the sweet/horse chestnut naming anachronism is the best reason for Latin names I know.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    So this is where the fun is? Really great thread, props to all. (Especially to Edward C, the man’s a machine)
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Delivery for Matelot......
  25. Mick Dempsey
    We have plenty of chestnut coppice here, personally I’d leave it be. Coppice in small parcels if you have to (though 1/2 an acre is already quite small) Keep the brambles down and plant some cyclamen and other woodland flowers. We own some woodland and I’ve often though of doing that, no time though!

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