Mick Dempsey
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Two full transits. You do the math(s)
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What’s your policy re. music in work vehicles?
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It was my first year in the job. I was keen to learn, the first job straight out of college ended badly after a couple of months. This (second) boss was old school, he didn’t much care for me (it was mutual) He abhorred new fangled stuff like top handled saws (bloody flat iron saws boy!) Chippers (load the wood on the truck) Dealing with women, referring to them as “the female party said to me…etc But…he knew the job backwards. It’s where for a year I kept my mouth shut and my eyes open (for a change) So I let the small indignities slide. -
What’s your policy re. music in work vehicles?
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Total coincidence guv. -
What’s your policy re. music in work vehicles?
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I do love a bit of classic country on the way home after a good day. This is a great singalong if you’re old enough to remember it. -
Lime repollard, 20 years or so since the last one. 10 cubic metres of chip. Windy as hell, but pretty straight forward. Early finish.
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When I first came to France in 2005 it was good money, as good as climbing etc. Then gardeners and the like caught on and more people bought them, price went down..
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Had a run of unbelievably good weather, so we’re flying through the work. Big lime repollard today, two men on the ground so should be a doddle. Have a good Friday all.
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Stump grinding is a piece of piss. I love a day off real work to spend the day twiddling levers. @Stefan Palokangas
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yes, I thought about that.
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Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not like my old boss who removed the radios from the vans to stop us ‘sitting in the vans all day listening to music’ But I cannot abide music on the way to the job, I prefer to quietly brood, planning the work in my head, not listening to some bird screeching about her wet pussy. On the way home, ok a bit of a celebratory music is in order. Am I so adrift of modern mores? do others prefer to pump themselves up with Rap or the like?
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I took off a big oak limb a long time ago with a husky 288. Anyway, bolloxed it up, and the saw went with the limb, got a big tug and the saw freed itself, albeit with a bent guide bar. I got a bit of a sore hip. My question is this, can a saw really hold on to the limb till the bitter end? Surely, as in my case, it’ll free itself before anything more catastrophic happens.
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Have you ever trapped a saw in a free falling branch? If so, what was the outcome?
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@Rich Rule C IMG_1693.mov Can I be in your gang now?
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Ha ha! No I’m only joking he’s a good lad. We finally got the RC3000 winch thingy I spoke to you about working properly today. It’s not a game changer, but once you’ve got it dialled in it is handy enough for tensioning limbs over buildings etc.
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That is such a bullshit cliché.
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On a Monday morning when your groundy comes back from a one month tree surgery course.
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We used to go to the Dam on football tours (and a stag do) back last century. We were all smokers and spent all day in there getting stoned and drinking copious amounts of Stella. They’re not really ‘fun’, Apart from us (a football team on a weekend jolly) the clientele were quiet, introverted boring sorts, the effect of cannabis no doubt. You wouldn’t catch any ‘cool’ Dutch kids in there that’s for sure.
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You ever been to the cannabis cafes in Amsterdam?
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What sort of drugs?
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Great news, how old is he?
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Fwiw lots of infrastructure for camper-vans in France.
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Lovely day here. Big shop, look at a job, then jet wash the patio. The whole of February has been a bit of a non event as my hired man has been in the UK on a tree surgery course. I’ve bumbled along with a bit of stump grinding but little else. Now he’s back on Monday and we’ve plenty lined up, luckily it’s set fair, so time to try and catch up fiscally.
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Key point.
