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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    If you do it on "post quick reply" rather than "go advanced" you get the video picture up rather than a link (probably!) More alluring than a link.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    They use them a lot on vine trimming over here, thousands of cuts all day.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    [ame] [/ame] Like this then.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    [ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KtCsmSMRiC0[/ame] Go to the YouTube video, copy it (at the top) then just paste onto the "box" where you write, if that makes sense. That one didn't work because of copyright.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I've noticed in the past decade I've been here the amount of pick ups has increased (not just because of me!) farmers and hunters are warming to all the jap jobs, seeing them as a step up from the French front wheel drive vans (in any colour as long as it's white)
  6. Mick Dempsey
    I've never really understood this overthinking about what you eat in this game. Decent breakfast, some sarnies for lunch, and a bit of chocolate or the like to get you through the mid afternoon slump (assuming you're not already watching "Judge Rinder" on the sofa) plus tea or water to wash it down.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Getting it done as usual Ian.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Ha Ha. I was trying to think of a joke about that post, no point now...
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Here's a bit of slow mo chip flying for you Paul, done with an iPhone. Don't know why it won't embed.....
  10. Mick Dempsey
    There are other benefits apart from noise, although that's a big one. There's no starting or stopping a battery saw, it's always on and always off. Yesterday, for example I was deadwooding and siding up a very large oak, it could take a while to negotiate to where I wanted to be, on the way I might have to nip something off, maybe not, but the saw was not burbling away unnecessarily, and I didn't have to start it. You'll have one within eighteen months.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Congratulations, top machine, I'd love one.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Feels like it today, had a similar tree to deadwood and generally muck about in, stiff all over now.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Ive seen that tree...
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Ps, why not make this the battery saw thread? we need one anyway.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I might drill a hole in the exhaust anyway, get a bit more power, just got to find it first.....
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Maybe it's the chain bar combo, someone (the mysterious someone) said they run the same motor.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    You consider the husky noisy? I've never heard the Stihl but is noise an issue? I mean they're much much quieter than a petrol saw. Anyway,used the husky today on a big oak trim and thin. (Only one side over a garden) I absolutely love it, I'm sold, and I'm a Luddite.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Crazy stuff.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    I had a bit of time on my hands so I read it, glad I did. I've read other tales about the end of the war in Germany. It was such an odd time, some still fighting, others more pragmatic seeing which way the wind was blowing and trying to get through to the end without dying stupidly.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Horsey sorts can (sometimes) have their own moral code regarding payment.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    [ame] [/ame] Is it like "special stuff?"
  22. Mick Dempsey
    True, it didn't. Threads develop, maybe we should twist this round. What can bosses do to help new groundies who are normally young and very green. 1: Don't imagine that they know right off the bat exactly what they should be doing. 2: Training, even for a few minutes before the job starts, we're always under pressure to finish a job in a given time period so we tend to get out the van and get straight to it without an explanation of what's going to happen. 3: Try not to shout at them too much, it creates a vicious circle of negativity. 4: Give them a little bit of respite, even if it's just the simple pleasure of using the blower for a while. Before anyone who's ever worked with me points out I'm guilty of doing/not doing all these things.....I know.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Oh super! another "kids these days don't know they're born" thread.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Nice pics Matty.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    It's not radioactive, just don't break it.

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