Mick Dempsey
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Bang on, sore back yesterday. Normally the flail would be advancing into and reversing out of thick bramble which is easier on the back than traversing fields. Looking forward to vids of the roboflail in action, especially in different types of brush.
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Wow! Tree work aside, that first image is a great photo.
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Behave Mark! The way you’re going the only crane work you’ll see is when the cut a hole in the roof of the house to crane your enormous bulk out.
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I don’t mind a bit of this, I upgraded the flail because I can see a bit of a niche for me doing this as I enter my dotage, jobs too small and inaccessible for the farmers with hundreds of hp, and too big for the gardeners.
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More flailing. Forked out for a heavier duty Avant flail, ‘L’ hammers and more poke from the pump. Hurts your back a bit bouncing around across fields. Got to sell the Multione flail if anyone is looking… IMG_3106.MOV
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I admire your attention to detail on these matters, I am much more a fly by the seat of my pants sort, which does me no favours. Interesting info and sounds like a plan.
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Not that I’m saying you’re an influencer or anything. But it reminds me of this daft mare getting all done up in make up, designer wellies etc. carrying a signboard telling us some aspirational crap while her husband takes a photo for the Gram. (Again not you)
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Agreed, was watching a little thing about GPT, I still don’t understand it of course, but his posts do smell of it.
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Ho lee Fook! medical science is amazing. Best of luck going forward.
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Thanks for the follow up, nice to get closure for the family.
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Pretty sure Hedge Mong was joking, the whole thread had descended in farce and he was playing along.
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Re-pollard horse chestnut
Mick Dempsey replied to Jim Curtis's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Thanks for your honesty, re. doing it yourself. HCs tend to rot quickly from the pollard heads, so that’s something to keep an eye on. That will probably do for the tree in the end, but no harm in carrying on for a few cycles. I would reduce to 5’ above the pollard heads, so it’s easy to reach. Try to take it back to a leaf node or bud or whatever not leave a ‘blind’ stub, whilst keeping a nice shape. Late autumn/winter is best. Opinions may vary. -
Dunno tbh.
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No I haven’t heard of it happening but I don’t think they just shrug their shoulders. For the Irish passport, yes, but it’s not simple, you have to fill out paperwork to become a Citizen of Ireland then after a while. (Year or two you’ll have to check) you can apply for the Irish passport.
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What's your favourite sandwich filling?
Mick Dempsey replied to Darrin Turnbull's topic in The Lounge
Tramp’s dick cheese and leopard’s fanny batter. -
You get your passport stamped (and dated) when you leave. So they don’t come looking for you. But they’ll catch you coming back.
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How he ever got to be the boss of CI5 escapes me!
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Weren’t they taken and shot in a field with the others?
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Thing is, you’re not really off duty if someone is at your clients, using your machinery with your reputation at stake. What happens if they hit underground services, break down or the client is unhappy with the finish? Give yourself at least one day totally free of the job.
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I used to stump grind my jobs on a Saturday (when I was in the UK) do 4 or 5 jobs of trees I’d cut during the week. Easy work, lots of cash.
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Just take the weekend off.
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Best we ever got was 100mph up Rudgwick high street in a rover 3.5 P6. Easier up the hill than down as stopping would have been an issue!
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Ps, The ‘backbone’ never really caught on did it?
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Quite pleased with this. 6 steel screw gate steel krabs for €6.50 each from a local agricultural dealer. Zipline worthy.
