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Ah! See I did not realize you were using these knives for your work, imagining rather I suppose, that you would use a Stanley type "safety" knife for such duties. But surely it should be possible to donate the boxes of slightly used knives to the Norwegian boy Scouts?

Andy, explain why you dump lightly used knives, and by the boxful too?

I remember watching a programme about Liverpool Council's "Grand Vision" for replacing swathes of Victorian era terraced streets, which resulted in long-standing families being almost forcible re-housed in grim modern blocks of flats "but only temporarily", for years and years and years, while their former family homes sat in limbo. Simply the typical poor result of "decision by committee", and as portrayed by the TV programme, deeply unedifying. From a N Ireland perspective Mrs. Thatcher's right to buy scheme was driven by the staggering cost, inefficiency and corruption of our NI wide Housing Executive, unfortunately the nett result was that HE corruption was merely replaced by even more efficient private sector corruption, with the very same paramilitary organisations each controlling agreed areas divided up on sectarian grounds. By the way during, I guess the 60's and 70's, when the HE were building new "Council" housing stock, they were staggeringly grandiose withe their swathes of landscaping, resulting in very low housing density, and probably counter productive to the natural formation of new communities. Big "J" wife would be better placed to comment on this aspect of social or urban planning, but my simple observation of swathes of poorly cut grass, litter, broken trees and burned out cars was hardly a positive one, I suppose one could say these markedly large open areas were effectively "no mans land" and would have been better covered in medium density low-rise housing stock.

A magnificient specimen, but is there kangaroo breeding about the tail(from the TV image)

The only people who wont like the bed, will be the furniture movers!

very impressed Andy, presumably you based your footprint on a standard(=Ikea=sigh) mattress size?

I never used/use Facebook, I did not/dont use a Smartphone either, nor will I now I am retired, hence my presence on here. BUT! Having been very mildly involved with Forums over this past few years, I get the impression that "specialist" forums "wax and wane", and all its takes is the forum to be down due to software issues, and it can "die" inside of a month. Life is SO fickle.

Thanks all.

Thoughts? Incl pointers to best UK Forum? mth

As someone who has, bytimes "executed unorthodox operations", and survived unscathed, even I am VERY aware of the bomb-like nature of a mixture of Oxygen and Acetlyene, especially when under pressure. Presumably yer "professional" "borrowed" the mixture of gases from his place of work.

This was definately stupider. 2018 Darwin Award: Wacky Welder DARWINAWARDS.COM Darwin Award: Wacky Welder: The tale of Howard Miller, 39, professional welder, illustrates the pitfalls of ignoring high school chemistry with a time-saving invention. Miller spent...

2 Morso(e)'s fitted and fired up the backend of 1997, I have forgotten the models.

WTF, would anyone imagine, that the person who felled the trees, was somehow magically responsible for THEIR inability to cut the felled trees up. I shall therefore stick with the distillation of my observations across some 45 years. "Ye canny fix stupid" mth

Hang a few, and send the rest back to wherever their families emigrated from. No need for harsh prison sentences.

Some bugger went an outbid me!

What like the confused Cowboy who burnt his balls riding the Range?

I hid my Brattonsound gun cabinet keys (twice) before going on holidays, hid them so well I could not find them that is! Anyway I had to ask a locksmith's advice, a 10mm dia hole with a cordless drill and tap with a hammer on a drift (about 3 min per lock) and I was in. Scheesh! P.S. Needless to say I did not order a spare set of keys when I lost the first set, neither "mislaid" set have ever surfaced yet either, a good few years later.

I was annoyed I did not put the 255 tyres on, instead of the factory fit 235's, saw one that weekend with the 255's on and it looked SO MUCH more purposeful, I could hardly credit they were only the next size up.

Yup, I intend to put a BIG not 540 PTO/250 rpm only sticker on it. Though I am the sole operator.

Yup, though some o the 'Derry men were a little unamused, on the other hand the Dublin guys were highly tickled.

I replaced the factory 6.5" pully with a 14" pully, I could not handily get a 13" one for whatever reason. Means the wee Kioti can now run the saw blade at the correct tip speed, while ticking over, much, much easier on the ears and the diesel too. I was so proud of my handiwork, I fitted a see-through polycarbonate guard. Complete with the newly re-toothed and sharpened blade, humming nicely and cutting like a dream. Other taken in Donegal, during our June bank holiday "G" Wagen meet, overlooking Magilligan, simply posted here because I really like the image

It all depends, mostly on the integrity of the design, with some allowance for whimsy, but mostly on the suitability and excellence of the materials used and thoughtful construction. And "I just know" what I like, but my tastes are remarkably catholic.

Top pic is the Harbour Bar in Portrush, bottom one is between Portballintrae and the Giants Causeway

I believe Stubby already is . . . Then he uses the charcoal to cook with.

Apart from buying myself a 12V Panasonic drill/screwdriver way back in the late 90's, and being impressed by its versatility, power, durability and longevity. The absolute clincher was buying a 36V Bosch pneumatic hammer drill for work, prob in the early noughties, and standing near-giggling in wonder as it bored 20mm dia holes in basalt like it was cheese. P.S. Our local motor factors, Ffyes, had a £129.00 DIY package deal, which included 5 individually boxed Draper(some Draper Professional, some not) power tools, a cordless drill, angle grinder, orbital sander, jigsaw, and sommat else, at least a couple of which tools were cordless.