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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Timon, that's some good tyre placement/lawn saving. Stuff all that chainsaw milling stuff, log it up, get it out, collect the cheque. Prolly riddled with nails anyway.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    All elms (outside of certain areas like Brighton) are as good as dead, they're just regen from elms that died from DED (Dutch elm disease) so are effectively clones and will succumb sooner or later.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Good stuff, worth a watch.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    No me neither for at least 30 years, they were fun though!
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Mushrooms starting to kick in?
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Go Jap (or Ford Ranger) the best and most recent you can afford.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Nasty! Hope you heal up ok. I have done similar, I had no excuses either. Extra careful today, thanks for the heads up.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    *lumbar btw.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Oh behave Stefan! My clients watch grinding for all of 30 seconds then get bored and go indoors. It's lucrative, that's it.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Well, as a climber I say, thank you for your kind words.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Husky 550 Xp.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    I've had it a few times back in the U.K. Once in London I was 50ft up a poplar ringing it down and a woman (or "female party" as my old boss used to call women he didn't like) Berated me for getting dust on her car a full 40mtres away, (it was windy) I just swallowed it. Then a few years later we were having a load of fires in Midhurst on a council job and someone kicked up about ash on their car. They guy whose job it was just got a hose and washed it off there and then. If it's any consolation these Facebook moaners carry no weight with me on any level. I assume they're just wastes of space anyway and the "likers" just mumsnet sorts.
  13. Mick Dempsey

     

    <p>Hi Stu,</p>

    <p>Bizarrely, my Forst has not bee trouble free, a roller stopping problem no less, turns out that it's due to vibration in the electrics box, they have at least admitted it and sent out some rubber mountings which should help.</p>

    <p> All good here, the anticipated attack by the MSA has been repelled for the moment, this time I had the money saved up for the mendaciously timed rectitatives and the majorations and whatever else they call their attempts to reduce me to a gibbering wreck in the corner of the room. They've decimated my treasury but there's some left and the worst is over.</p>

    <p> That grinder was a money pit from the start. Sometimes it's best to move it on and take the loss, if you and your mate want to come down I'll demo the Rayco I bought brand new. </p>

    <p> Plenty of work here up till December, all well priced as well so nothing keeping me up at night!</p>

    <p> Have a good autumn.</p>

    <p>Mick</p>

     

  14. Mick Dempsey
    My old Rayco command engine did that. The lever that controls the throttle closest to the carb has a stop, so it's unlikely you're over revving. It's likely that some springs have worn and your revs have backed off imperceptibly. I could well be wrong and you'll blow it up though:)
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Got to admit I'm tempted, my old workmate Simon Parsons (Big Beech) on here has one, and I'm jealous, put some pics up please.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/milling-forum/94657-stihl-090av-up-running.html Here you go...
  17. Mick Dempsey
    From the way the story was told there was no winning the argument. We work in an industry where a handshake is usually enough, which is great but once in a blue moon it'll catch you out.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Gray Git, i hope it was lucrative 'cos it looks like torture!
  19. Mick Dempsey
    The insurance claim thing intrigues me. Surely for something to go wrong i.e. A roof damaged by a branch, something had to fail or someone had to have made an error not following best practice. In either case surely they can't refuse to pay as that's what they're there for. Over 20 years I've had a couple of claims, the insurance company never asked about loler.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    I once was conned into looking at a "job" involving a long narrow sloping garden where at the bottom there was a huge pile of assorted cuttings, clippings etc. The owner suggested that they would be willing to let me have it if I wanted for the upcoming village bonfire night, I said no and they were quite miffed saying something along the lines of "you try and do something for the community....."
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Let it go Paul:) Have a good day, suns up soon!.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    That poor machine!
  23. Mick Dempsey
    O'Reilly?
  24. Mick Dempsey
    I look at it and think Goat Willow. Unusually tidy form though and "Tree like" Probably way off though.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    That's a great picture/trademark thing you have there Stumpy Grinder, do you have it on your van?

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