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My first question is do you own your house? if not I would check your rental agreement before anything goes any further. when I ran my own business I wasn't aloud to give my address as my business address as I rent my house so I got all my post sent to my parents. if you do own your house just send him a letter requesting him to stop been a ........ Twerp and suggest he relocates or mind his own business.

well as you got it on the first go I guess it turned out better than I thought.

Any one want to guess the make and model. not the sort of thing I would normally carve but hay hoe I gave it a go.

As Si has just said. 192 is a great saw but be careful buying off fleebay. TBH you are really going to need two saws one for blocking out and a detail saw. I use an MS 201 as my detail saw and an MS 231 for most of my other cutting. it really depends on your budget the 201 is a good saw but its bloody expensive. as a starter saw I would highly recommend the MS 181 its a little heavy but it rolls side to side nicely making it good for tip work. I used one when I was teaching people. the ms 150 is a little small to be your main detail saw. the ms211 is good from what I hear. if you have the funds I would recommend starting with a 181 as your detail saw and either a 231 or a 261 as a roughing saw.

I have done more a few shows now and the most important thing is to have a second person there with you as said by others. You need them to have basic knowledge of what you are doing but the main thing is that they will be able to keep an eye on your kit, sell your stuff and stop any one from entering your work area. make sure you rope off a big area to work in ( I always ask the organisers for at least 8m x 8m you will be amazed how much space you can fill. take a gazebo or other shelter for the person helping you to stand under and to keep your kit dry but have it within your roped off are so that people cant wonder into it. stuff your helper needs to know. Most important. where is the first aid post and event organiser in case any thing goes badly wrong. How to get your attention without putting them self at risk of you turning round and slashing them up. what kind of wood your using, people always ask. The Price of every thing. what you are carving on the day. do they need to treat their carving that they have just bought and if so what with. make sure you have business cards or your contact details displayed. have a photo album of your portfolio. I always have my piece im planning to work on roughed out so that when people start coming round there is something for them to see right from the start. you may think you have all day to carve but the truth is every time you stop to refuel there will be some one waiting to talk to you and the hours will race by. my general rule is for an 8 hour event I will look to carve something I know I can finish in 3hrs tops . make sure it is some thing that doesn't need sanding and lots of finishing off, so that if some one wants to buy it when you have finished it they can take it home with them on the day. I take a few spare logs just in case I need to bulk out my time and carve some small stuff. remember to take stuff for cleaning up after yourself. remember to take your PL insurance certificate with you as some organisers will not let you set up until they have seen it. have fun

im a fan of leaving the bark on it jus adds a bit more texture otherwise they need to be sanded smooth and thats a pain in the arse to keep doing. and make sure you dont get the stool and the shroom on the left mixed up as the result might be painful.

is the inside round or square?

there are lots of good books on building tree houses i have one called build your own tree house a practical guide. by maurice barkley. sterling publishing co.

My first tip is Put the F*&%£$G guards back on before you hurt yourself. if you are sanding using the edge furthest away from you the grinder will try to transfer the pressure point the the quater of the disk behind it then the quater closest to you in a split second you will have a speed wobble what will snap your wrists to the side and throw the tool out of your hands. the guard will bump off the wood helping to stop this happening. only sand using one quater of the dist against the wood at a time this will mean that the sanded strokes all go in the same direction so you wont get round marks on your wood. sand in the direction of the grain. if you go agaist the grain you will fluff up the surface of the wood. If you are wearing gloves which i would advise make sure they fit snuggly as loose gloves are more likely to get tangled up in the moving parts. and as Dave has already said if the wood starts burning clean up your diskc with a wire brush. Dave hope you heel soon and if you arnt going to us that disc again send it my way ill put it to good use.

i work in a pharmasutical plant and we spend alot of time in air suits ( big yellow rubber suit with a clear plactic hood and detachable gloves. it is a given rule that if any one laves their suit you swap th gloves to the wrong hands or if they are working in it you fold their air line so they steam up. our other favorite is to fill peoples lunchboxes with shite out the bin orput their lunch box in the freezer in the canteen all morning then replace it to their bag just before lunch. one of the guys i work with likes to sneak up behind me anmake me jump so i spend my life looking over my sholder. to get my own back i do things like shred the news paper and feed the bits through the gap in his locker door. staple the bottom of the legs on his overalls shut and last week unrolled several condoms poke each one trough the round vent holes in his locker and spray expanding foam into each one before knoting the ends and letting them fill up the locker. another bloke spent months telling us about the new car he was getting and thn it got delayed by a few weeks ad we got told every datail of why it was delayed. when he finally got it he still didnt shut up about it so i phoned the garage he bought it from and got them to send me a brochure which came with a letter. i scannd the headed paper into the computer an made my own letter informing him that de to the problem with his breaks which had cused the delay in his delivery his car was been recalled nd he souldnt drive it untill he had contacted customer services. i gave the customer service phone number of a supermarket in the townwhere he bought his car. he walked to work in the poorng rain for three days before i told him what id done. after the initial rage he laughd and said he wondered why the woman from customer services kept sayingbut sir we dont sell cars. the following day i took a needle and tread to work and threaded two mentoe sweets onto a bit of thread and after he had had a drink from his coke bottle and put it back in the fridge i undid the lid put the mentoes into the top ofthe bottle whilstholding the thread so they didnt fall into the juice then screwed thelid back on and snippd the thread. when he opened his juice at lunch timethe sweetsfell ito the coke and the whole lot erupted allover him. i thoughthe was going to kill me for that one. my grandad use to smoke rollups and would get me to roll hi a load each day using his rollie machine. i would occasionally put the banger out of a party popper in one to make him jump. the very best practical joke i have ever heard of was some one sent the undertakers to someones house at 2 in the morning and ask for the blokes wife.

i have finaly finished the second thistle of the pair te second one took longer to carve trying to match it to the first.

like these. did you have to stop and have a think about what you were carving or dare i say Paws for thought

Bugger the HMRC tey rob us enough without taking extra money off you. i started off selling my carvings at carboot sales and what is the difference in the money i was making selling crvings and the person next to me selling their junk. i dont do carboots sales now because im so busy with commisions i dont declair it as its a hobby that covers its costs and a bit more. a friend of mine makes and sells kids hair clips and bows and she got a visit from hmrc and they said as she i only ran i on a small scale the wernt interested in persuing her for tax. so i say dont bother declairing it until someone comes asking.

this chipper bagger doesn't seem to compact it very much so surely it would burn rather quickly. you need one of the small straw balers like what the little old MF tractors towed just beefed up a bit. having said that as soon as the strings on a bale melted through the whole bale would twang undone anyway.

My mate got on as an upgrade he has gone back to his iphone as the sony is so bloody big. i have a motorola defy and like it think i wil just get a new one of them when i replace my phone.

Some nice stuff there dude. i like the way you have done the coal in the train and the fish in the pond is a nice twist on the classic leaping salmon.

Simon you are an arse!!!!! i will just have to hope he doesn't figure out my technique of drawing my design onto a sheet of clear polothene so it can be flipped over.

will see what i can do

The honest answer is i dont know. i was using it for about an hour and a half but obviously it wasnt running continuously.As far as i know the smaller version will do 150 cross cuts of an 8" log so i should think this one will do atleast the same in not more.

i was in the "Toy Shop" getting chain oil this morning and the owner gave me the new Sthil MSA 200C battery powerd saw to take away and try for the day. I had tryed the smaller one last year and wasnt impressed with it but this new one was a whole different story. it has an AP 180 Lithium Ion battery and a 14" mini rollomatic E bar. it had a nice weight to it. but for people who want it lighter it can be fitted with an extention leed so that the battery can be worn on a belt. the battery life was about what i expected and there is a power indcator on top of the battery pack. it obviously didnt have the punch of a 2 stroke but once the motor was up to speed it cut well when cross cutting an 8" log and was great for working on the predetail part of a carving. If it was with a dime tip bar i think it would be alost as good as my MS201 for detailing. My main concern of owning one would be remembring to fill the chain oil. it also had a funny smell when using it but i think it as the chain oil warming up which would normally be masked by the exhaust fumes. it was a bit noisyer than i thought it would be but still quiet enough for sneeking into the local community woods to do a bit of covert carving or half inching a bit of fire wood. defo one to put on th wish list.

The funny part is having had a look at several of the carvings he has done you can tell wich side has been copied from photos on my FaceBook as the sides he ha had to make up himself as even worse than the side hes had a picture to copy.

Nither did i Dave until bad ripoffs of my work started poping up here and there. theres even on at the far end of my street.

Due to some shmuck locally riping off most of my best selling designs i have had to up my game a bit. this is my new thistle design. this one is one of a pair the other is going to be a mirror image and they will stand either side of a garden gate.

Englebert Strauss when i did pestcontrol i lived in their "Image" clothes they come in every colour and are indistructable.