Mick Dempsey
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Everything posted by Mick Dempsey
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They sound like idiots. Tell them if they're too tight to get them ground out, they'll hang around for years.
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If there are no breakdowns your maintenance will be minimal. Some filters, oil etc, sharpening blades is relatively inexpensive. I can't really see it being an issue.
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Buy a trailer.
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Oh ffs. Call it cable bracing, or bat habitat or better still don't get involved with such bloody nonsense.
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It always rains in Holland! I take your comments on board, you were an early adopter after all.
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You buy more batteries. I did a conny topping job recently, three days taking off 15 to 20 ft. Maybe 4/5" diameter max. Battery saw (with two batteries) lasted till lunch, if I had an inverter to run off the truck I'd have used it all day. I cursed when the 201 came up. I've been conny bashing for many years, I hate it, this makes it less loathesome. Honestly. Multiple small tree dismantles is where the battery saw truly excels. Big repollards, fair point, you need more speed through the cut. Bigger dismantles, don't muck about, get the 540/201.
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Ok, define "high intensity small cuts"
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Frankly Geoff I don't love it. On a big dismantle, fine. On a deadwood, prune or similar, the sound of silence is better.
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As far as the rest of the pro echo mob that have come swarming out of the hive are concerned. Remember this recall was about safety, fire risk etc, not them just being crap performers like the early 201s.
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Fair point Joe. It's all about battery saws for pruning and small dismantles now, these diddy petrol saws are going to be defunct in a couple of years.
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Don't think they had much choice.
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S'funny how this thread has changed from how great Echos are to the opposite.
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Sorry to hear about this. Out of curiosity did you get the 190 issue sorted?
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Too many. Cannot bring myself to sell any though. Except the 076 (Still for sale btw) 12 saws btw
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Rooney is hopeless ATM, cannot trap or pass the ball.
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It's not the despair, it's the hope that hurts. Bloody awful.
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Tree Risk - Putting it into persepective
Mick Dempsey replied to Dorset Treeman's topic in Trees and the Law
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Tree Risk - Putting it into persepective
Mick Dempsey replied to Dorset Treeman's topic in Trees and the Law
Plenty of food in most wheely bins. -
Tree Risk - Putting it into persepective
Mick Dempsey replied to Dorset Treeman's topic in Trees and the Law
How many wheelie bins have damaged roofs, crushed houses, cracked foundations etc -
My 2p. If you're doing lots of leylandii a tw190 will be a good tool. The 150 will do a good job but more snedding, so slower, more fatigue. The GM has an issue with leylandii in the summer IME, so avoid the disc blade system. Can't comment on a Vermeer.
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As ever.....budget?
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I find the "serial killer" look a difficult one to understand, guys who work in call centres sporting a Charles Bronson look (the prisoner not the actor) It wouldn't be a plus point that's for sure.
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No, quite agree I wasn't suggesting a repollard. A ladder tied in for the high pieces is another tip. If they want it reduced reduce it, it's surely too small to get into issues about tieing into regrowth etc. I reckon it's a purple plum, difficult to reduce, water shoots everywhere, branches that give up the ghost even when taken back to reasonable growth points. This one is well past its best.
