Mick Dempsey
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Timberwolf launches latest tracked chipper
Mick Dempsey replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Hi sandworks, out of curiosity what do you mean by sag? I've a Takeuchi 016 with 2000 hrs with these extendable tracks. -
Timberwolf launches latest tracked chipper
Mick Dempsey replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Looks great, I'd have liked a less artistic and more factual infomercial. But.... I'd love one. -
I don't watch many vids but this popped up on my FB feed. Really great work, plus some great filming, I love the little snippets of chat. edit, I don't seem to be able to do a link. It must be on someone else's, can someone else post it? Purleeeese.
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Yes awkward because of the traffic island below, means shutting a lane for a couple of minutes is a pita. Don't miss that! Good work.
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There'll all "after" pics right? If so, looks nice, good shape.
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500 years? Are you George Bernard about that?
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I've some walnuts in my field that come out really late, one in particular is only fully in leaf by mid June. Don't worry it'll be fine. Don't worry about the lichen, not parasitic, (AFAIK) sign of clean air I'm told.
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Ha very good Joe! actually it was alright for a good 15 minutes, I suspect the effect of the vibration through the tow bar started the movement. The groundie was trying to save it and I thought for one moment he was going to try and run faster and get in. At considerable risk to himself. I was thinking "leave it, it's only a truck" (sometimes I suprise myself a few years back I'd have torn him off a strip for not sacrificing himself Emily Davison style in front of it)
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No... I'll try that. Thanks
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Handbrake was fine, it slid down with the wheels locked. Steeper than it looked. Yes, he'd of laughed at that!
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Hi Steve, I only seem to be able to load one picture each post, if I try another it just replaces the first one. On iPad Air btw.
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Last one, there was a very steep drop after the pile and some big trees, Could have been a very costly error.
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Another view
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On a steep slope today, I was cutting an elder and the lad was feeding the chipper. I turn round to see him desperately try to stop it skidding down the hill. Handbrake was on but the truck just slid all four wheels locked. He couldn't keep up but as luck would have it there was a handy pile of garden rubbish to stop it. Nary a scratch! Un hitched the chipper, reversed it out and this time used chocks. Here it is afterwards, chocked this time. You can make out a ranger size dent in the pile lower down.
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The thrust of my post was about the transition from how he was perceived whilst alive to how people's opinion changed once he'd died. Not so much that I thought him a fool particularly. I had/have no real issue with him. Anyway, here's a clip of him on the BBC's Question Time.
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I suppose if I was after "likes" it was a spectacular failure, if it was about saying how I felt about all the retrospective reverence it wasn't.
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Depends Dave, if he dropped dead tomorrow we'd be saying what a steadying influence he was in the coalition and what a great orator he was. (Which strangely I think to a certain extent)
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Maybe Mark, it just make me laugh how there is so much cynicism and disrespect there is about politics and politicians on here, one drops dead and all of a sudden he was "one of the honest ones" Which no one seemed to notice before.
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So you want to be a freelance climber do you?
Mick Dempsey replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Climbers talk
Always plenty of those! -
So you want to be a freelance climber do you?
Mick Dempsey replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Climbers talk
Lot of osteopaths on here tonight. -
Funny isn't it, when he was alive he was a drunken laughing stock. Dead, he's JFK crossed with Gandhi.
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A lot depends on species, on larger hardwoods I trim both sides as much as I dare, undercut (just kerf width) then hard and fast directly above and in line and it pops off. Picked that up off a Yankee forum, works really well.
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Looks great, very simple, but efficient. Big saving on a tracked mini digger I'd have thought.
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I was very impressed with the power of that little machine, getting about was a bit ungainly but otherwise brilliant. Put a little claw on it to pick up cord wood and figure a way to get it on and off the back of a small truck it'd be a must have.
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Linear Reduction? Any ideas what that is?
Mick Dempsey replied to markwildthing's topic in General chat
Linear.... : formed by lines : made up of lines : forming a line : of or relating to the length of something I think they may mean a reduction following a strict shape. Ie. A round over.
