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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    I remember that feeling from college 20 years ago, get past 15ft or so and your inner self says "Fall from here and you'll die, go back down" I just couldn't do it. Anyway on the second day I cycled to college and I said to myself all the way "If you don't do this you'll be pushing a barrow up a plank for the rest of your life, I'd rather die than do that" that day I pushed through, started to trust my gear and once you're through it's not easy, but easier.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    I've had a number of painful injuries as a result of poor tackling at football, poor driving and falling out of trees! None of them came close to the pain I had when they took my wisdom teeth out. You have my sympathy.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    I think a thread where we can relate anything interesting or even the mundane that happened in our lives during the day might have legs (works elsewhere, gives an insight into others lives) Doesn't have to be work related or include pics. Today I spent the morning in the supermarket with the wife. (Big outing!) Then priced a job, picked up some money from another client, then a friend gave me a call to say he had a couple of old cartwheels in a barn I could have, I'll incorporate them somewhere in the garden even if they're just leaning against the barn wall in a kind of "abandoned farmyard look"
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Watch out for a general increase in awesomeness.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Nice job Jammydog, and classic hero shot.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    They are emojis, Kevin's are thumb up ones. Maybe your device doesn't recognise them or something and just puts little boxes.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Good luck, maybe I just give up too easily!
  8. Mick Dempsey
    I think you'll have to swallow it. It's what I'd do, others may differ.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    I'm not familiar with the stuff I'm afraid.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    As an aside, we do quite a few pine removals because of pine processionary moth nests. Anyway we did one recently, covered in nests, I climbed, and had a work experience kid and my regular groundy cutting and chipping, both wearing masks, I was fine, the 16 year old, fine, the 30 year old suffered for a full week with rashes, he told me that had he not have worn a mask he'd have had breathlessness as well (through previous experience)
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Your sycamores, which, I understand, are close to our London planes are a right booger in the summer, I used to climb them in the old days, sneezing all the way. Otherwise I have no problems with dust, apart from my eyes. Like someone mentioned earlier, and has been talked about on another thread, old wood chip is to be treated with caution, forking it out in a closed space can be a serious issue.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    How long did the job take?
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Is a bandana proven as an effective protection against dust?
  14. Mick Dempsey
    They don't if you sharpen them
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Total BS. Not that farmers lung doesn't exist, but a "great percentage?" of chainsaw operators. I've never known one with it, and I've known a few.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    What happened here then? Guy comes on, plugs his product, gets us all excited then.....nothing. Strange way to run a business.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Good post. "Each additional layer of error" good phrase.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    That means business!
  19. Mick Dempsey
    No, the moving scenery and the smells was a good part of the pleasure.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Fair enough, not your machine, bosses choice, not your problem. Tough gig though.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Just road riding on a racer (after I lost my licence in '90) i spent 5 or more years exclusively riding a bike rather than driving, including the 17 miles to and back from Merrist Wood for my 10 weeker in 94. I loved it and coupled with my football kept me butcher's dog like. I recently bought a decent quality racer and have been out on it on shortish rides, but it's just PAIN and I always seem to find something else to do.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    I tried to rediscover cycling after a time away. I'm afraid I couldn't capture the old magic, it collects dust.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    I don't think you're doing the machine any favours on that stump Kev.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Great picture of the two of them. The brown one, cocker or sprocker?
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Nice work, reductions for the real world.

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