Recent content by Mick Dempsey!
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What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?
Congratulations Sean, a stonkingly good piece of equipment. Well done!- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #447
- Forum: General Discussion
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Avant Thread!
I had it on my Multione a few years back, I was on full reach up high with a fixed grab angled up to pull a branch out of some bamboo. A fixed grab (150 odd kilos off solid metal) detached itself and rolled down the arm towards me in the cab, only the hydraulic hoses stopped it from squishing...- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #95
- Forum: Rubber hits the road!
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How do you turn down work?
I tell them I don’t want to do the job, or I just don’t put a quote in.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #17
- Forum: General Discussion
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What's on your mind? TCI Magazine wants to know
I use a Prussik every day, it ain’t how quick you get there, it’s the decisions you make when you’re there that determine if a job goes quickly or not.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #39
- Forum: General Discussion
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What's on your mind? TCI Magazine wants to know
True.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #32
- Forum: General Discussion
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What's on your mind? TCI Magazine wants to know
Yes, probably right, with NC rigging and stubs there’s nothing to sell.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #30
- Forum: General Discussion
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What's on your mind? TCI Magazine wants to know
Natural crotch rigging and climber lowering branches using stubs. Let’s not pretend it doesn’t happen, why not discuss techniques?- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion
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Do I have a problem?
Everyone has their thing, like Neil I have no yen for mechanicals, I’m happy with a prussik. Finding the perfect trim saw is my never ending quest. 2 x 2511s 1 x 201 2 x Husky battery saws 1 x Husky 540 petrol.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #9
- Forum: Climber's Talk
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trees and spirits and stuff
It was performative, in my opinion, ‘look at me, I really care about nature‘n’shit, I’m sooo spiritual‘- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #17
- Forum: General Discussion
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trees and spirits and stuff
I had a client (an American couple) who had a chateau type property. They hired me to take out 2 trees, a 40 year old Leylandii and something else smaller, days work. So we’re there at 9am, parked in front of the leylandii filling the saws up, and the husband comes out, and with an earnest face...- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion
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trees and spirits and stuff
Karma doesn’t exist, it’s a concept like the tooth fairy. I have no idea why some people just accept it as an immutable law of existence.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #13
- Forum: General Discussion
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Postcard mailers with photos, "creepy?"
Don’t hang around outside a school though:)- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #23
- Forum: Behind the Desk
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Industry related Spanish language podcasts
Ha ha, thanks.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #18
- Forum: Foro de cuidado de árboles (Tree Care Forum)
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Industry related Spanish language podcasts
https://www.facebook.com/reel/762740909979235/?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e Quite the situation here, anyone translate please? @Matias- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #16
- Forum: Foro de cuidado de árboles (Tree Care Forum)
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Postcard mailers with photos, "creepy?"
Yes, nice subtle touch.- Mick Dempsey!
- Post #19
- Forum: Behind the Desk
