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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Don't be an asshat, the guy is aware of his inexperience, he is searching for work in order to gain it.
  2. I was in the same situation 20 years ago, I reckon it was easier then to find work then. Good luck whatever (forget the peace and love stuff though!)
  3. Ok Paul, thanks for the clarification.
  4. Joking aside, I have always been puzzled by the "one size fits all" attitude to reductions. Why have the same directives in place for a lime as a beech? They have very different responses to trimming. I've seen reductions on here of eucalyptus where the climber has gone all out to go back to live growth when we all know the tree will throw out vigorous regrowth all over by the end of the week! I think the dogma about size of cuts on reductions when no account is made of the type of tree makes a nonsense of it. Mark, the way my wrists feel ATM I'd be lucky to be able to lift one-off the ground.
  5. Lightest of touches on a couple of limes. Hope I have them the right way round otherwise you won't tell which is before and after:001_smile:
  6. It can't, and it won't, nor should it be, free market economy and all that.
  7. To justify your expenditure, extra stress and because it's your balls on the block. Plus, and most importantly, because you can. (And money comes in handy)
  8. You really ought to think about your prices. If you're earning the same as the hired help, you're doing it wrong.
  9. <p>Hi Geoff,you'll be much better off buying it (or the equivalent in the U.K.) as everything is so much more.ore pricey here.</p>

  10. It's everywhere, it's like posting a picture of a lawn and asking "what's the green stuff all over the ground here?"
  11. I once wrote to Jim'll Fix It asking to go ferreting with Fred. J. Taylor. Britains foremost ferreter. Funnily enough I never got a reply. Good show though, whatever happened to it?
  12. No, fair enough, afaik some of these wheeled loaders are less than gate size. I have found, if you're local, a trip back to base to pick up the hydraulic help can keep your rectal hemorrhoids at bay! Plus get the job done quicker. Here's my helper, pulls 'em over, picks 'em up.
  13. I have studied the "manutention" side of things a lot and I can't see past a wheeled loader A la Avant/Multione/Giant for tree work.
  14. Gene therapy? Do you use that for this sort of injury in the US?
  15. If he lives as long as Kirk Douglas the child will have a father till he/she is 27!
  16. So if a woman has the sperm of a husband, who is dying, frozen for later insemination that's selfish? Or a man with heart disease or something else that will shorten his life shouldn't have children? Besides, she can always remarry.
  17. Don't agree, that child will want for nothing, education, food, money. It will have more than the countless unfortunates born to some feckless younger fathers.
  18. Ha ha, I was going to say "spring for a nanny" but that's worse!
  19. I dare say he can stretch to a nanny.
  20. Not ness a celery, just curious as to where he wanted to go. Then people will be able to help him a bit more.
  21. Abroad where? It's a big world out there, where do you want to go?
  22. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/chainsaws/97599-things-i-havent-done-without-consequence.html Reminds me a bit of this thread.

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