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Enjoyed the video. Nice change to crash and bash heroics. More please.

I'm near Sudbury and won't be going miles out of my way. Delivery to Sudbury ish is fine. My mate is in Ipswich. Look forward to hearing from people.

I assume you mean what will he give for them. It's not a favour kind of thing. He'll be giving money for them. I'm hoping to hear things like, "Have got some boards like that; how does £X suit your mate?"

A mate wants to do a table top with oak boards and asked me to find some for him. Wants the boards to finish to: 1600 x 205 x 40 mm 63 x 8 x 1.5 inch Needs 4 boards. Anybody got anything?

Blimey. I usually only take half a thou at a time (not chipper blades). Never seen a set of chipper blades that need sharpening. How bad do they get? How much needs to come off? I'd have thought maybe 15 thou if they're just dull but if they have chunks out then I suppose they might need as much as 50 off! That *would* take ages...

Alternatively, something else is a few inches too long.

This wasn't just woodworking. Included stuff like what's best using for firewood, charcoal etc as well as stuff like young coppice poles being used for weaving and older ones being used for whatever.

How long does a pair take on the surface grinder? How much do you take off in what increments?

Sod a mini digger falling over. What's the story with your avatar?!

Surely?

Looking very crisp and square!

Is it illegal in any?

Someone must have seen it?

There was a link on here a few weeks ago to a site/document with a quite thorough list of uses for different kinds of wood. So for example you look up sweet chestnut and it tells you what you can use inch or two coppice poles for and also what you can do with a bigger stem. Detailed properties of the wood, so good for burning, making charcoal, building, whatever. Can't find it now. Can anyone remember the link I'm talking about?

That smacks of so much abuse of (perceived) power. Can you recall everything that was said to you by the police quite clearly?

Good points. Furthermore: His story Their story The truth

There are different kinds of pigeons but most can be destroyed/nests destroyed under the same rules that govern shooting. You've got to be doing it for the right reason, like the protection of crops, public health etc. I imagine it's all in the Wildlifeand Countryside Act.

Come on, RangerMatt. Be good enough to answer the man's question. Do you really want the chap put in prison?

Brussels?

Further to my post here I have received the following reply from my MP.

What do people think about the following points of view? 1) A helmet without a chin strap is useless because it be knocked off. 2) A helmet without a chin strap is worse than useless because not only can it be knocked off but it gives the wearer a false sense of security.

Drink driving is a reasonable example: Think of people you know. Has 1 in 7.6 of them been arrested for drink driving in the past year? Now take into account how many drink driving stops would not have been recorded/an arrest made because the MP does a deal with the policeman whos stops him. I doubt this particular statistic is as cut and dry as it might seem.

It'd be lovely but I can't see it coming off. As a country we're a bureaucratic bunch and it wouldn't be long before someone wanted a certificate of attendance. Then it wouldn't be long before some certificates of attendance became perceived as more valuable than others. At some point there'd be an argument over who knew best about something and before you know it there's a hierarchy. Perhaps someone tried to use a certificate of attendance to buy a new top handle saw from a dealer who would normally want to see an NPTC unit or two. More arguments, more ego, more officialdom. You could just as quickly end up with another line of certificates or a governing body struggle. Either the above or just nobody would be interested because it doesn't seem like as good value if you don't get a ticket from it. The people making the money on assessments do so because it is perceived that "you need your tickets" and they can charge what they want if people "need" what they have. I'd love to see more high quality, no vested interest, no need to be there, doing it purely because you want to (with no assessment or whatever to cloud the mind) training in loads of circles but it's not how the common bureaucracy craving British mind functions at the moment. I'm hoping there will be a general wise up in the area of "qualification" as it becomes obvious how useless 90% of post millenium graduates are.

I'd be surprised if those statistics are right but the point is a good one.

Not that my views are anywhere near as synchronised with current legislated reality as I'd like them to be, but what's it to you? Their tree. They can do what they want with it. I'd be pissed if my neighbour thought he could tell me what to do in my garden in exactly the same way I'd be pissed if he objected to a planning application. Long live classical liberalism and the free market economy! P.S. I hope you don't feel as though I'm being rude or speaking out of context but it was a good opportunity to make the point.