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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Not really Les, rather than start a new thread, I searched some key words and this apposite thread popped up, so I thought ‘there you go’ and here we are. Tell us about your plans for a fun packed Friday night on the internet,
  2. Cheap for a reason then? Oh well, like you say, still good business.
  3. Why don’t you want to top them?
  4. Not illegal if you have a showman’s licence or something like that (don’t know the details)
  5. If you don’t want to top them, and they don’t want them out completely you’re out of options.
  6. Dear client/customers, If you want to pay cash (with the vat on of course) at least get it out of the bank in advance, I don’t want to go round your house again later on,
  7. Without wanting to sound arseholey, you must be quite new to the process. These sound like 2 jobs that other firms have turned down because they are a nightmare. Do the clients want to keep the screen of these hedges? If the answer is a firm yes then your problems are just beginning.
  8. Work on a few out here, hard pollards order of the day, 1 year later they’re right back.
  9. Take out the lesser half and a hard prune, they’ll come back from any sort of hacking. Then repollard every few years.
  10. Agreed, a topper for instance, 35cc, flat out a lot of the day, day in, day out, can last years, amazing really.
  11. That’s more of a motto for life!
  12. I have a new transit arriving in the next couple of weeks. Single cab, twin wheel tipper. Maximum capacity for chip. I will die on this hill.
  13. Here, the petrol stations run credit card pumps a lot. So you can go out of hours with no one there. They don’t give a toss anyway, only issue I’ve had is when there were riots in the major cities about baguettes or something. They wouldn’t let you fill a can in case you were making firebombs. All forgotten about the next day of course.
  14. I love how in almost every image of the asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs, there’s nearly always a T-rex looking up thinking “shit, this doesn’t look good’
  15. Didn’t know about a tensioner or greasing. Have to check that!
  16. Mine (Schliesing 485) has the hydraulic clutch, but it drives the belts, which drive the flywheel. So the OP says the belts are turning, but not the flywheel, so I don’t understand how that happens.
  17. You mean they’re locked solid? Cos if the belts turn but the wheel doesn’t … Can you move the flywheel by hand?
  18. This guy did it once, on his time, you were saving on buying equipment by regularly using stuff the taxpayer paid for.
  19. Or as Gloria Hunniford’s mother said ‘always buy good shoes and a good bed, because if you’re not in one you’re in the other’
  20. Planted a hedge of Photinia at the beach house, wanted to prevent the hoi-polloi from gazing over the fence at us gilded people! Igor making sure no working class sorts (more specifically their dogs) dare raise their eyes in our direction.
  21. No rope is going to break unless you cut it, even diy store blue three strand is strong enough to tow a car. I like a thicker rope, easier on the hands. It’s an orangey colour don’t know it’s name ‘Thor’s Underwear’ or something.

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