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Mick Dempsey

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  1. 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"
  2. Watch out for a general increase in awesomeness.
  3. Nice job Jammydog, and classic hero shot.
  4. They are emojis, Kevin's are thumb up ones. Maybe your device doesn't recognise them or something and just puts little boxes.
  5. Good luck, maybe I just give up too easily!
  6. I think you'll have to swallow it. It's what I'd do, others may differ.
  7. 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)
  8. 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.
  9. Is a bandana proven as an effective protection against dust?
  10. 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.
  11. What happened here then? Guy comes on, plugs his product, gets us all excited then.....nothing. Strange way to run a business.
  12. Good post. "Each additional layer of error" good phrase.
  13. No, the moving scenery and the smells was a good part of the pleasure.
  14. Fair enough, not your machine, bosses choice, not your problem. Tough gig though.
  15. 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.
  16. I tried to rediscover cycling after a time away. I'm afraid I couldn't capture the old magic, it collects dust.
  17. I don't think you're doing the machine any favours on that stump Kev.
  18. Great picture of the two of them. The brown one, cocker or sprocker?
  19. Nice work, reductions for the real world.
  20. Reading glasses are a must for men of a certain age.

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