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Mick Dempsey

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  1. 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"
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    :001_smile:Back later, got to price a job
  6. 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.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    Thinning and lifting trees as a solution to shade is bogus college taught nonsense.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
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  11. 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.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    House repo, that's sobering.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Being a freelancer as a way of filling in whilst you start your own thing, ie saving for a tipper/chipper is fine. Just doing it as a rock star thing has no future.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    No, and I never said that, there are many councils now that won't sanction any reduction purely because a HO wants more light.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Great post There will be more and more "mysterious sudden death syndrome" if this policy of no reductions continues.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Elaeagnus, small hedge/shrub, firewood? I suppose it'll burn.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I know, it's crazy, no reductions allowed, obviously 5mtrs is too much but stopping reasonable reductions to relatively young garden trees is stupidity. So it comes back denser? So what? Do it again and again on a 5 year cycle.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    Nice easy morning on the Rayco.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    That hedge gives me the jitters. What a gruesome job! Like you say the width of those that can give you a cold. Bet you're glad to finish that.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Is it an invisible owl? Ok I see it now.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Glad you cleared that up.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Ok Jon, the first sentence, I can't understand it.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Clearly.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    I'm not moaning or telling you what to do. But I can see why he Mesterh posted that. He has a point.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Ha ha, that really made me laugh! I know what you mean, it's gone a bit nuts lately,

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