Mick Dempsey
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https://www.facebook.com/Oli96.8FM/videos/881108125312633/ We all love the web, gives us a chance to learn more about our chosen trade, argue pointlessly with strangers, read lies about sportsmen and TV stars, buy rubbish at discount prices and watch the sort of porn you could only dream of as a youngster reading well thumbed copies of Penthouse. But when this sort of stuff appears on my timeline of FB my blood boils. Totally fake, the guy pretends to be injured, hobbles around all day and night dropping stuff in front of people to find a couple of guys who don't help. What's the betting everyone else all day picked them up without a murmur. All with a soundtrack of sad music, then, just to teach us a lesson a homeless guy helps him and receives a few bucks in reward, cue uplifting musical ending.https://www.facebook.com/Oli96.8FM/videos/881108125312633/
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I'm very old school so moved from a Blakes/Prussik to a zig zag. It seems to me that a lot of climbers on here that actually earn money doing the job (and whose opinions I value) like and use them. I wouldn't look much further if I were you.
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Here's a similar picture of my chute. I'm certain there never has been a piece like yours on there. Under normal circumstances/branches it ejects just fine and dandy.
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Gulp, well tomorrow we'll find out.
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I've been on holiday, just come back. I'll have a look at that flap thingy, but I'm convinced it's the shear bar. 6 months ago it chipped this stuff just fine, no bother. Even now, anything but leylandii goes through as good as ever. The shear bar is fairly worn anyway, does anyone know if they can be turned? We're putting a new one in the TW this arvo, so we'll have our eye in for the GM in a few days.
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Of course you can do it! But in your shoes I wouldn't bother spending too much time/money learning to climb. Too many youngsters being pumped out by colleges. Plenty of other avenues in the fields you are looking at to pursue.
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S'funny, the original film is on now, still brilliant. Do you think anyone will be watching the Sky mini series in 55 years time?
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I'm all for taking out risky trees but.... If it's in a woodland just leave it, a few signs telling people not to loiter. Aesthetically I'd leave all the broken stuff as well. To make a monolith of that would be a very poor choice IMO.
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How often should you change you Spikes
Mick Dempsey replied to Pbtaylor2014's topic in Climbers talk
No, I'm on me 'olidays. -
How often should you change you Spikes
Mick Dempsey replied to Pbtaylor2014's topic in Climbers talk
Yes, never. You may want to replace the gaffs periodically. Or not. I changed mine when I tried to sharpen them with a flat file and ruined them. -
I don't think it looked too bad. Poplars can move a lot in the wind, bringing anxiety. I'd certainly not have thought twice about climbing them. Good job.
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How often should you change you Spikes
Mick Dempsey replied to Pbtaylor2014's topic in Climbers talk
Gaffs or spikes? -
My thoughts....
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Why is it always "greedy" developers? I have known a few, and they are proud of their visible achievements in putting together the necessary work that provides houses for people. Money comes in handy of course. I remember in my home village of Rudgwick about 15 years ago there was a petition in the local shop against a new development of 60 or so houses. I had a look at the signatories and many of them lived in an very similar estate that had been built a year or two earlier.
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Wedding in wood request
Mick Dempsey replied to Two Acres's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Ha ha, my missus loves that show. -
I take your point of course. I suppose it's a few reasons, 1: they don't have to (it's clearly a good machine that's selling well) 2: I'd be suspicious of people taking a demo for a day just to do a job 3: it ties an employee up for a day, wages/diesel/wear and tear on the towing vehicle plus depreciation on the demo chipper.4:see number one! I suppose also, if one was balking at paying a tax deductible 100 quid to hire a machine then 17000 is going to cause some butt hurt. Just my thoughts mind. Could be way off.
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I remember someone trying to get a demo on a 150 a few years back and couldn't. I thought then if you're in this game and never used one of those or had a mate with one then something's wrong. You can always hire one from Orange Plant
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http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/large-equipment/86098-tw230-feed-back.html There you go, plenty there to go through. Fwiw I had one for a couple of days and it was fantastic, a real forward step from the older model.
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And it'll get better, the laws on burning green waste are tightening here as well.
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Agreed.
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[ame] [/ame] "Burt, he doesn't want to haggle,"
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All threads should end on a Monty python sketch.
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Gbt is the make of chipper.
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I remember a client putting me right on an ident, she said it was a parasol pine, I informed the poor deluded soul it was in fact a scots pine, she went in, got a book, proved she was right. Not much I could do really. Conifers are the worst.
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Pawlonia, plenty of them around here otherwise I wouldn't know! (Plus a check on google images) I don't like them myself, always considered the lilac flowers rather brassy and come hither.
