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Mick Dempsey

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  1. That's habitat that is! None of you peeps even care about bugs an stuff? Birches can be heavily topped, but they do get rot pockets so on the next time they often need re-lowering (below previous) or taking out. Better than no tree at all for many clients.
  2. I think being a employee on the public payroll would lead them to being very careful about identifying themselves and what they write on a public forum. Or maybe they just go home and leave work at the office, no harm in that. Anyway what's all this "passionate" nonsense it's not Masterchef.
  3. You're not doing it any harm, for all my bold talk I'm going to do mine tomorrow!
  4. I'm 51 when I was at school we were expecting nuclear war, I remember one of my teachers telling us that during the Cuban Missile Crisis they seriously thought it was days away. They'll always be something. There's plenty of news outlets that share a lot of your views. Nobody really thinks we are the "goodies" maybe less bad, and let's not forget they're the ones sitting on our oil!
  5. Not disputing it, had mine 12 years now. So can't be neglecting it too badly.
  6. Does that Rayco model have the magic eye? Is that what the hat is doing?
  7. I'm glad you said that Pete! I don't think I've changed it in a decade on my TW. I was sort of under the impression (like with my grinder) that after an initial 50 hour oil and filter change, presumably for any small pieces of scurf from pumps etc, it'll be good for a long, long time.
  8. 38 degrees here tomorrow. I drink water. Seems to work, salty crisps can prevent cramp.
  9. As an aside to this interesting discussion (and I think it has been) a little thing I've noticed over here. A lot of firms here call themselves "entretien parc et jardin" entretien is maintenance. They have a distinction, a large expanse of ground planted with trees is a parc, one rarely does anything to them but take them out when dead, or remove storm damage, a jardin is smaller, trees would be trimmed and managed in these, often to within an inch of their life!
  10. Ones that CAN be trimmed regularly and hard. Ie pollarding, keeps the shade, keep the tree manageable.
  11. Scrap it, scrap the whole damn system. Let the LAs look after the trees on public property, otherwise people should do what they want. I can't understand this punishment of developers and developments by making them jump through hoops to keep a couple of oaks on new developments. Better planting schemes, replace forest trees with more property friendly species, ones that can be trimmed regularly, removed and replaced with less issues.
  12. Not on this occasion certainly, but have you ever had the impression that your "demo" was really someone getting a stump ground out for free?
  13. Looks like a thuja plicata. Fwiw. Easy grinding, as long as you find all the roots! I think I'd definitely have the bigger grinder thanks.
  14. But in fairness the CS100 isn't a serious tree surgery contractors machine.
  15. True, but a saving of 20 plus grand can pay for a lot of rental if it does have a few issues. If you keep the Quadchip you'll always have a back up, plus the smaller chipper for domestic small scale stuff where 68hp is overkill. Just musings really. Your circus, your monkeys.
  16. USED Wood Chippers, JENSEN A328DI 9" X 11" - CATEGORY: WOOD CHIPPERS offered for sale £7000.00 As an example, even if you had to spend a couple of grand on it.

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