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I can think of a lot of secure things than him chopping wood!

Two ways of looking at that. The older generation git free education. More generous state pensions etc. But just maybe they didn't contribute enough to sustain this so the younger generation pick up the pieces. So I have a friend who has nearly finished a 6 year stint in further education to become a junior Doctor. Nearly 100k in student debt and the government has cut junior doctors wages to 22ķ a year . Somewhere around £11 an hour. At the same time the mps agree a pay rise up to 79k if memory serves. Where is the balance or fairness in this system. People new what to expect and where they were heading then the goal posts move and taxes go up. People need to adjust there spending and this will take time. It's not there money they're not giving us. It's our money there taking more of . It's important to remember that we need workers doing menial jobs. We can't all be tradesmen. We don't however need workers doing menial jobs for next to no reward. We should look at equality and living wages. So people didn't need tax credits.

I don't expect the state to pay for anything for me. I take what they offer for sure. But on the other hand I don't expect those at the top to put the working classes in a position where they need to work 3 jobs to make ends meet while they sit back counting coins.

It's stresses me to listen to all of you guys who think people should simply work more. I work to live , not live to work. I'm fortunate that me and my partner can both work part time and live a good life. The rest of the time I spend time with the kids . Work in the veggie garden. Look after the animals we rear for meat. I choose to work for myself not for others , so when I'm not out earning I'm still bettering myself. What part of this life did people decide it was acceptable to work 60 hours a week . Never see their kids. Never spend any time doing what makes them happy because there chasing more money to spend on consumer junk and working harder to put more money in the peoples pockets who are making you poorer in the first place. If we were on an even keel nobody would need to work 60 hours. I did when I was young till I realised that the only thing I got for work was money. I prefer to earn a better quality of life, and I don't think you can work harder and then buy it. James

I'd be interested to see some pics. Can they be milled at your yard?

Lovely porch. Not so sure about the house!

Top work . Lovely oak

Would of been buy your too late. I decided to order one last night. With new handle and brake band it owes me £65 so not too bad. Just got to decide what do with it now.

That can't be worth 25k can it?

Yeah chain brake is pants for sure.

Picked up an echo cs350t yesterday at an auction. Reasonably good nick. Runs lovely .needs a new brake band . Wondering what people thought of the saw and if it's worth keeping or selling. I don't climb so have no real use for it. What do you think it's worth when fully fixed up? Cheers

You beat me by a second

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=92743

Lovely froes. Pm sent

I could mill them all up for you in around 3 days with my lucas. Would cost you around 1k and you would have so much oak you wouldn't want it. Alec advice is sound. If you were closer id have a trailer load off you. Just try to sell them as saw logs as there very nice looking sticks and it's a shame to log it.

Buyer protection with paypal. So they pay you then claim they never received the bike, open a case and more often than not paypal refunds them and debits you. You don't know who they are so they have your bike and money.

How are these people exploited?

But I wasn't gambling just working.

So we agree. Any way The point being I've had a lot more out of them than they have had out of me, and my biggest win to date £25

Both the projects I worked on were for environmental charities, well actually environmental not for profit. If they hadn't got funding from the lottery, they wouldn't have got funding at all, then the small difference that these projects make/have made wouldn't have been possible. I agree that they probably support less worthy causes but some they support do make a change.

That all depends on your world views and wether you think it's worth changing people's mentality towards its destruction.

I occasionally buy a lucky dip, maybe a ticket a month , but I have been awarded building contracts twice which were purely funded by the lottery good causes fund. So I don't mind giving a little bit back. Some of the causes they support wouldn't get funding elsewhere.

Great job. Very impressed. There's a special feeling when you build something that you have taken from a tree to a finished product.

I was milling some oak today for a client and my c scope cs4pi found some metal buried 12" in the tree. When you do some experiments and practice you can work out how to adjust the sensitivity of the detector to tell the depth of the metal. I managed to mill within 1" of the metal ad cut it out. no blade damage. they pay for themselves quickly. Problem with fitting something to the carriage is the carriage is made of metal and it would always detect the carriage.

i have a lucas mill and cover the london area. contact me if it helps you. Unfortunately i dont cover the south of france unless the moneys really good. A basic lucas mill starts at around £20k + vat these days. This is why no one lets them out of there sight. James