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  1. Mick Dempsey!

    I cut myself..... with a stick. (warning: blood)

    It’s not ALWAYS when you least expect it, but it often is. Glad it’s not too serious.
  2. Mick Dempsey!

    climbing with big saws

    I haven’t opposed anyone’s lifestyle choice. People can live as they please. I tell you what though, out of respect, bearing in mind Stump Sprout lost a parent yesterday, we will park the discussion for a bit. It’ll pop up somewhere along the line I’m sure.
  3. Mick Dempsey!

    climbing with big saws

    So ignore it.
  4. Mick Dempsey!

    climbing with big saws

    You’ve always seemed like a nice guy on the forums, original and funny. But you haven’t transitioned from anything to anything, you’re an adult human male, you always will be. You can sew a couple of floppy ears to the side of my head, it doesn’t make me a cocker spaniel, no matter if I say so...
  5. Mick Dempsey!

    Would you climb these dead trees?

    I take your point.
  6. Mick Dempsey!

    DownRigger, Rigging Wrench (or Scarab, or....)??

    Nice try, but not taking the bait.
  7. Mick Dempsey!

    Would you climb these dead trees?

    Set a line as high as practicable and do a pull test. Then, yes.
  8. Mick Dempsey!

    DownRigger, Rigging Wrench (or Scarab, or....)??

    No my tongue does not get scraped. I had no idea it was a thing tbh. As for the downrigger et al, it’ll find its way from toolbox on the truck, to a shelf in the workshop, where it’ll gather dust till retirement for most. A solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
  9. Mick Dempsey!

    The most wrecked chipper knives I've ever seen.

    Hmm, not really, luddites destroyed machines because the technology was taking their jobs, hence its current usage as someone who is scared or refuses to embrace new tech. Saboteurs destroy as a way of hurting bosses or some other version of ‘the man’
  10. Mick Dempsey!

    The most wrecked chipper knives I've ever seen.

    Not luddites… saboteurs. The name comes from French workers throwing clogs (or sabots) in the machines to wreck them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage Having read the wiki link it appears I’m wrong!
  11. Mick Dempsey!

    Hiring a climber/ employee from out of area

    Trees are trees, they’ll soon pick up the local skinny. Just try not to micro-manage them too much……you know what you’re like Sean!
  12. Mick Dempsey!

    Work shirts with business logo?

    Get all cotton, you‘ll sweat a lot but the poly ones get a BO smell that the material mémorises, so 5 minutes after you put it on in the morning you reek of rancid BO
  13. Mick Dempsey!

    another ugly stump

    Why not cut it from ground level? drop it a mètre at a time.
  14. Mick Dempsey!

    Lets see some shit... Shitty tree work picks from other companies in your area.

    Meh, I’ve seen worse, from very close up…..regularly.
  15. Mick Dempsey!

    business value evaluation

    When I left the UK I tried to sell my business. No dice. I ended up giving my phone numbers to the girl who worked for me. Her husband is a climber, so they got a few jobs out of it till I ceased to exist in clients minds.
  16. Mick Dempsey!

    Overuse Injuries

    My knees have been giving me issues, so I worked out that dragging heavy loads of brash to the chipper is the cause. So I don’t do that anymore. I never found any aspect of climbing gave any issues. It’s always been ground work that gives me problems.
  17. Mick Dempsey!

    Dealing with different types of people in business

    If you’re busy its easy to get rid of clients you hate, in fact it’s a pleasure. If you’re not (and I’m not fighting them off with a shitty stick atm) you have to swallow it.
  18. Mick Dempsey!

    Throw bag hitting shingle roof...How bad?

    There’s always another tree. Winchman still has work to do!
  19. Mick Dempsey!

    Large, uprooted doug-fir laying into another doug-fir... thoughts?

    So you can use 1 GRCS to tighten up a rope, put it on a POW, then just move the GRCS to another tree and do it again ad infinitum? Hadn’t thought of that.
  20. Mick Dempsey!

    How's the work flow?

    Sean, I’m not hanging around outside of schools! The judge told me I’d go straight back inside if I did that again.

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