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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    I wouldn’t say it’s support, more a recognition that it’s a reasonable measure. Imagine being a young mum dropping the kids off at school in your Clio that you husband (let’s say he’s an office worker) has bought with his already taxed income (including VAT) Behind you is Mrs Jones, in an all singing dancing Hilux invincible with her 2 kids in the back. Her husband had written off the VAT and reduced his tax bill by buying it, plus the fuel is a tax write off Seem fair?
  2. Mick Dempsey
    You can take at least one more passenger in a king cab, two at a pinch. Not in comfort, and shorter distances are better. But it’s doable if needed.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Ford Ranger Wildtrak in blue. My 4th Ranger in a row. Before that a Navarra, two Hilux and the first pick up was a Ford P100 Ironically the only photo is of a DCPU!
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Hardly a sledgehammer! From now on if you want your VAT back and the purchase price put on your business you’ll have to buy a perfectly adequate king cab. I have just ordered one in fact, coming in August. I would have liked a double cab, but I understand the rationale. It seems fair tbh.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I don’t see how stopping people buying a dcpu on the firm and giving it to the wife as a family car is hitting the normal working man. It is closing a tax dodge.
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Do they sell single cabs still?
  7. Mick Dempsey
    No tout seul.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Saw one a couple of days ago. Always a big day for me.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    As it goes my new transit 3.5t seems to take a great load of chip without looking too bad, must be the new springs or something. I thought about going the 7.5 tonne route but it wasn’t worth it for me. For me a single cab twin wheel 3.5 tonner, another truck like a pick up or even a smaller one like a kangoo or similar to tow the chipper and carry the tools is a real sweet spot for making money. If you’re going to ram the 3.5 with chip stay off the motorways, and don’t fill the dash/windscreen area with rubbish that the rozzers can see. And another thing, clean off any overspill of chip that’s on the cab roof or whatever so you’re not a snowstorm of chip as you go down the road. If you’re going to get nicked for overloading fair enough. Just don’t hand it to them on a plate by making yourself an obvious tug.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    It’s a clusterbuck of a film by all accounts. Snow White is now some kind of modern empowered female. The special effects are terrible apparently. Only what I’ve read mind.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    It’ll take any ratchet strap, you could even use two. Aren’t they supplied with the big yellow one?
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Very wise.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    The levant is an old name for the Middle East I thought.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Agreed. Crap like that is why we’re sometimes regarded as flim-flam artists.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I have one as my everyday harness. I don’t have a lot of experience of harnesses as this is only the third different make I’ve had. Seems good though, comfy.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    I just cannot believe no one on the deck questioned it. On a job like that they’d surely be an RA and a method statement. Let alone a few guys on the deck with a few years behind them chiming in.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I think we all need to see the vid.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    I would say HSE will already be getting some funny ideas, and rightly so.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    It was on a few social media sites at the time. FB Arbtalk I think. If you scroll back you’ll find it.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    I saw the vid. Strikes me on a job like that with money not an issue, a mewp should have been used.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Hang on, I do remember a vid I did of setting the knot.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Are you saying……I’m your father?!
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Learning the truckers hitch from your old man is a rite of passage. “you do this, then you do this, then this….twist it, and there you go »
  24. Mick Dempsey
    We’ve got motorcycle ones. They work well. Not interested in phone calls or music.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Depends on what’s underneath. This will likely fail at some point

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