Jump to content

Log in or register to remove this advert

Mick Dempsey

Veteran Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    15,131

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    214

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Mick Dempsey

  1. Mick Dempsey
    Same name, different vehicle altogether in the European market Ted.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    Ok, I've been at it all morning, tightened it all with shims, plus tightened a spring, moved the whole unit forward, it's better........... I think! Won't know properly till tomorrow, I'm on the edge of a village here so can't start it up and run it out the back in all conscience on a Sunday. Thanks for all the suggestions.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Mmmm,good idea, you mean the "arms" that hold the bar to the top of the hopper?
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Thanks, done that, no better, it seems as though the mechanism itself is too weak. We tried a little notch in this plate here to hold it in place better but to no avail
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Ok so I got this chipper at the turn of the year from the UK, ex rental but only 700 hrs. We've been ironing out the niggles to bring it back to its former glory. Including replacing wrongly sharpened blades, unravelling wire from around the rollers, replacing a broken solenoid in the stress control, repairing a leak in the fuel tank, sharpening the rollers a bit. Anyway as I've said before I'm happy to throw a few quid at it as its a third of the new price. Plus many thanks to GM for their patient help. Something has got us foxed though, the bump bar is too sensitive, but a big piece of wood in and the vibration loosens and lowers the bar so it reverses, meaning you have to hold the bar back to keep it feeding, also during the normal course of a day's chipping it creeps down reducing flow and slowing the rollers, a quick pull of the bump bar sorts it out but it's annoying. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Mick
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Very popular at college, until you discovered you couldn't wear spikes with them (no shank)
  7. Mick Dempsey
    I reckon that would go to Fergie, but what with the move to the Emirates and selling His best players every year and still qualifying for the CL 15 years on the trot, he's right up there.
  8. Mick Dempsey

    FA cup.

    Mick Dempsey posted a topic in The Lounge

    Well done to The Arsenal, too classy for Villa, roll on next season!
  9. Mick Dempsey
    http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/trees-law/85740-arboricultural-advice-tpo-tree-near-proposed-extension.html#post1272536 Here's the thread, where does it say he wants rid?
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Take a moment and re read the original post. (You know, the actual words in it) He want to reduce the size of the tree because of excessive shading, he doesn't want to manage a massive tree if he can avoid it, meaning he doesn't want it to get any bigger, it's already too big. He nowhere says he wants to minimize ongoing management. Your tree management seems to be do nothing (ie a thin and lift) allow a beech in a small garden to achieve gargantuan proportions and tell the homeowner he'll have to lump it mate.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    I know what you mean Reg, there's lots of instances of people with all the machinery and lots of work who moan about the difficulty of the admin/dealing with clients and how they don't make any money and were so much happier as climbers with no worries. It's largely blather. I don't blame them for it, in ten years if you are super successful it's unlikely you'll be telling your most productive climber to start out on his own, you may even find yourself giving the tales of woe yourself!
  12. Mick Dempsey
    It was the stating of the obvious: ie if you trim that tree it will regrow (or produce reactive growth if you want to use arb speak) well of course it will! then in a few more years trim it again so the light can reach the house/pool/flowerbeds. If the regrowth is thick as it gets with certain species, then thin it as well. It's tree management....do you not get it?????!!!!!! :confused1::confused1:(See how annoying it is when people do that woodpecker on a keyboard stuff)
  13. Mick Dempsey
    That's what I tell my wife when she asks me to cut the lawn or hedge. "Don't you realise darling that'll cause reactive growth"
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Well if you met some people and heard it on the the Jeremy Vine show who am I to argue? Anyway tonight I'm just going to ponder long and hard about the crazy world we live in where you, of all people considering the last few days, can profess to find people's lack of ability to form a coherent argument and resort to nonsense and insult "pretty pathetic"
  15. Mick Dempsey
    You struggle to understand that if something is blocking the light ie the top section of a tree, by removing that thing you will have more light? Seems a simple enough concept to grasp. The inner canopy of thinned trees does grow back you know, with a vengeance in certain species. So any way you solution is not so much more light as "less dark"
  16. Mick Dempsey
    I don't know are you the child of first cousins? Anyway sure, some older guys can do it I'm 52 this year and still climb so you're no superman, but to do it 5 days a week, rain or shine, on the sketchy stuff that freelancers are usually called to do?
  17. Mick Dempsey
    Because all this talk disregards the most important factor in the equation. The happiness or otherwise of the client. In real terms the client is not happy with a lift and thin. They want it smaller so they get some direct and un impeded sun on their lawn/pool/flowerbeds/patio. And a lift and thin won't cut it. When I left college we were taught to "educate" the client towards the "lift&thin school" and dutifully I managed to persuade a few to have it done. They were almost always underwhelmed by the results far as extra light was concerned. Resulting in either a call back to reduce or driving past a year later to see some other firm had done the job the client had originally asked for. That beech and many others would support a reasonable reduction repeated every few years, the client would get his light, the tree would be fine, tree surgeons would get some work and the amenity value (presumably the motorists who drive past) would not be affected in the slightest.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    So any footballer over 40 not still playing is an overeating unmotivated pisshead? Twisting your words? Anyway I've heard your pseudo scientific quackery about this before. it's laughable.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    :001_smile:Back later, got to price a job
  20. Mick Dempsey
    My attitude to life and getting older? You mean that I believe that as we age our physical powers diminish? And that wear and tear over time reduces our abilities to do easily what we could when younger?That's not an attitude, that's fact. Your bizarre denial of the obvious is reminiscent of those religions that won't go to doctors because they believe the body will heal itself through prayer.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Thinning and lifting trees as a solution to shade is bogus college taught nonsense.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    I'll just qualify it a bit. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a freelance climber but it shouldn't be a end in itself, it should be a step towards owning your own business or getting experience to go abroad for a while. Edit, just seen your post Huck. Running your own firm is certainly the best and easiest option if you want to make anything more than a living wage.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    I'll address your first point, "why not?" Because it's a dead end, there's no moving forward in your career/provision for your old age. Mid 40s or earlier things are going to start aching a lot, you will be a lot more reluctant to go out in the rain and deadwood a line of spready oaks. Plus on 150 a day you'll struggle to raise a family and pay the mortgage etc. Also the spectre of the younger cheaper climber who is always phoning up your clients asking for work looms large So with nothing to show for it except a topper and some old ropes you'll have to think of a new plan. Not going to be everyone's experience but it's a real world scenario.
  24. Mick Dempsey
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Just keep fighting the good fight. Good Opening"essay" Will give a lot of people real pause for thought. I'm "lucky" I'm older so when I struck out there was less competition, plus it was the mid to late 90s cheap credit for vehicles and chippers, low house prices and good money to be made seems like a golden age now.

About

Arbtalk.co.uk is a hub for the arboriculture industry in the UK.  
If you're just starting out and you need business, equipment, tech or training support you're in the right place.  If you've done it, made it, got a van load of oily t-shirts and have decided to give something back by sharing your knowledge or wisdom,  then you're welcome too.
If you would like to contribute to making this industry more effective and safe then welcome.
Just like a living tree, it'll always be a work in progress.
Please have a look around, sign up, share and contribute the best you have.

See you inside.

The Arbtalk Team

Follow us

Articles

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

  I accept