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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    This thread is in a slump, more effort needed.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    I don’t like massive amounts of food being dumped on us. I feel like I’m rude if I don’t eat it, and very often I’m not hungry on a hard day. Bacon sarnies? Yes ok, just let us know when we turn up so I don’t eat my own sandwiches unknowingly.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Happy Birthday Pete! I’m only a few days behind you.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Really? Not my experience at all. They take a good hammering, weak attachment points on the regrowth, but redone every 5 years or so avoids any issues.
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    Ok, understood. You were a freelance climber (and without blowing smoke up your arse a very decent one judging by the vids) so once you lost the enjoyment and an opportunity to do something different came up you changed lanes, and it’s worked, so chapeau to you. I knew from the getgo I was going to do this job till my retirement one way or another. So being able to do my own climbing saves me a lot of money, and means I control my business on my terms.
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  8. Mick Dempsey
    Try and separate yourself from the spoon whittlers that occasionally contact me looking for wood. Ucoulddoit has the right idea, get a truck and take a bit of currency with you.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Poplar is planted and used extensively here, big pallet making mills and paper manufacturing plants. See lorry loads of it moving round the place. You would have no trouble moving it on over here.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Seriously though 41? Absolutely the perfect age, experience and physical ability.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Saturday afternoons I usually drive around pricing work. I don’t mind it, relaxed meetings with clients, a bit of flim-flam etc. Chance to look at things as I drive around. Heres a rather spectacular oak in the middle of the field, the river Vienne in the background. A habitually wet field I’m guessing so unusual to see a mature oak in these circumstances.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Why? Are you made out of cheese or something? You’re in your prime.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Zero degrees here. Just walked the dog, waiting for the wife to get up to make my Saturday breakfast of bacon sarnies. Then shopping, followed by pricing work this afternoon. Oooh the glamour!
  14. Mick Dempsey
    Yep, the months fly past these days. Standard day today hopefully, oak to re-juice. No dramas needed before the weekend.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I love the ‘I’ll pm you, lotta snakes on here’
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    https://fb.watch/oEsyry_kwr/
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    No jury in the land would have convicted you.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    What an odd passive/aggressive job ad! Seems like there’s a bit of a backstory here. Mine would be ‘Climber wanted, must be able to successfully perform his number 2s before coming to work’
  20. Mick Dempsey
    ‘I don’t drink coffee I take tea my dear’ Are you an Englishman in New York?
  21. Mick Dempsey
    A teabag and milk must never touch. Pulling a teabag out of a mug of tea where the milk has already been added is visually akin to the morning after a Barrymore pool party.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    I should have, after throwing it in her face.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    French often have a cold cafetière of coffee that the pour in a cup and microwave for you. It’s actually not bad.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    When they ask ‘how do you like your tea?’ I always say ‘whatever milk you put in, halve it and you’ll be right’ It turns up and it’s bloody awful, and I wonder what it’d be like if I asked for milky tea!
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Many years back, we were felling a load of oaks on a Saturday for a client. Big pressure on the job, 5 men on the job to ensure they were all on the floor before the planning officers got involved Monday morning. Anyway around 10.30 custy says ‘do you want tea?’ I say ‘ok’ a bit grudgingly but if it’s quick it won’t cost us any time. 20 minutes pass, then she comes out ‘ooh sorry I forgot, I was making tea wasn’t I?’ Another 20 minutes and out I comes, I take a sip…. tastes like soapy water..Earl Grey! I splutter ‘This is Earl Grey!’ She says ‘Don’t you like it? it’s all we drink’ We mutter, throw it on the ground and restart. An absolute disgrace 40 minutes x 5 men = 2 man hours up the spout for nothing.

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