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There will always be the lazy and the feckless. Always. There will always be those that don’t want or can’t handle high profile jobs. There is mother’s, or fathers that don’t want to work full time and are happy with a job in Tesco’s. The reality is not everyone is interested, intelligent enough or driven enough to earn a position that pays the wages they command. When there is over 50% of the population on benefits there is plenty of scope to cut their benefits till working for a roof over their heads and food their and their kids bellies. No one should live life long expecting others to fund them. Putting menial jobs wages up simply does not work. 1. It’s simply not deserved. 2. Corps won’t make less profit, they just put their prices up and going from £8 to £12 an hour is cancelled out. So what will Labour do then? Oh I know! They’ll say higher earners need to pay their fair share, they are a broken record. Did the last Labour government do as you suggest? No, they where to busy starting illegal wars and bumping off Doctors. What Corbin proposes is sheer lunacy that their members are leaving in droves and telling people to vote Tory. Bottom line is life’s not fair.

A system that takes 40% of a slightly above average wage to top those up on minimum wage who pay no tax is socialism. It might not be an exact equilibrium but when you add all the other benefits together it’s not hugely off the mark. I do not wish to fund those that could not be arsed getting an education, be it at Uni, College or an apprenticeship. Thankfully I don’t as I pay my tax in Norway. ?

You lucky bugger! ?

What other options to non-trade guys like us have though?

You’re no joking! Brings a tear to my eye. A lad I know just liberated a near new £4000+ massage chair from the skip. Put it in the container with the approval of the rig. Changed a fuse somewhere and it was good as new. ?

We don’t donate or are allowed to give anything away. Insurance reasons. So in the skip they go. It would be far easier just sending the scouts money and they could buy their own knives.

Because its Norway? The cost of a Rig over a Well Template can cost upwards of £500,000 a day. The last rig I was on it was £800,000. Divide 800,00/24 thats £33,000 odd an hour. It simply is not feasible to spend time sharpening a £30 knife in that time. We must use 40-60 a trip stripping off plastic encapsulation from Hydraulic and Electrical Control Lines. Unless you're doing a good job of resharpening the Blade the small scores or knicks will longitudinally score the Control Lines. This will create weak spots in Contol lines that see 10,000psi. Get a Leak and the Well is kinda buggered. Hire an extra man to sharpen the knives on the crew? Thats an extra £4000 a day for that guy to be there. We'll maybe burn through £1000 worth of knives (I doubt we pay the full £30) Its just simple economics. We now have easy strip, with kevlar threads inserted so as to save on the use of knives, not for cost saving but safety. It cost maybe another £5000 for the Kevlar, but we hate it so use the knives anyway.

As I mentioned in the other thread my take on it is its forced socialism. In Socialism everyone (kinda) gets paid the same regardless what job you do. Or is that Communism? Same shit really. So if you're a Street Cleaner, or a Skilled worker or a doctor you get paid the same regardless what job you do. Now in the UK a Street Cleaner is on minimum wage, a Skilled Worker is on £45k a year and a Doctor is on £60-100k a year. But the Skilled worker and Doctors are repeatedly told to pay their fair share of tax. Which goes up and up every year. These skilled people on a higher, and justified wages are always the whipping boy each and every election, especially in Scotland where where's told to pay a fair share and a small increase each and every time. The Green Eyed voters think 'yeh, its not fair those bastards earn so much! '' So the skilled workers are taxed higher and higher. But those on minimum wage or under whatever the threshold is these days and get Tax Credit, Child Benefit, free School meals, free school music lessons etc etc. Everything the man paying over 40% tax is not entitled to. So in the end there is an equalizing. The minimum and lower wage guys end up syphoniong off the tax of the Skilled Workers. Its Socialism with more steps. Thankfully in Norway socialism is nothing like whats been fostered here in the UK and to a greater extent in Scotland. In Norway you pay into your own State Pension. Its capped, but at £10,000 a year (there abouts). Thats your own Pension pot, the more you earn is rewarded. (You have to earn about £100,000 a year to pay in £10,000 a year) Of course everyone gets a State Pension, but its the bare minimum if you pay in the bare minimum. Everyone gets Child Benefit regardless what you earn. So I get £100 a month for each kid. You wanna see a Doctor? Thats £30, each time. (capped somewhere down the line if your constantly there) Same with A&E, its £30, dont pay it seemed like you'd not get seen. Prescriptions are also £30 a pop. The list goes on and on. What we have in Scotland and in the UK seems more and more like a dytopian hell hole version of Socialism, but then Socialism never works anyway, theres only so long you can steal other peoples money and give it to the thankful and ungrateful.

I have a few of these in the drawer if you're interested? I use a couple of boxes of these each trip off-shore. They have been lightly used, they just end up in the bin otherwise. Classic Wood Splitting Knife – Morakniv MORAKNIV.SE

How much are you for a Belt Sander like yours?

Cutting a lot better now. Only done the one log so far though. Still need to dial it in tomorrow though. Ran out of time today.

It’s to flatten wide slabs that won’t go through a planer/thicknesser

Interesting, I thought the Plastic would slide easier. Same here. Yeh, my Saw Horses are designed to take a 2" x 4" and then a sheet of ply on top to make a worksite table. It was actually another Router Sled project I seen using this exact table in the US, so I ordered a set up. I also dont have the space to keep it permanently erected.

Damn! They’re really coming together! Cracking workmanship there.

Wish I could help, thats a stunning looking tree! Maybe post in the Milling Sub Forum here?

Yeh, all bolted up now and electrics ran yesterday. Some final fettering with adjustments now its on the Trailer today and Im good to go.

Ah ok, I guess it depends on the Woodmizer in question? I cant see a LT15 or the sizes around that being any faster than the Mill I have now. LT40's on the other hand with hydraulics then yes.

What Woodmizer do you have now? Is it so much different than the WM130?

Thanks for the offer. I've now ordered a kit from amazon. Hopefully it will have instructions.

Nicely summed up. That really explains the position Im in. Its not a job just now, actually helping another mate out who cant do the job. But the in-roads as mentioned make it worth it.

Damn, I really am underselling myself. Well its the first job and it will iron out any potential teething problems. Might open up more contacts and potential customers, one day I might need them. But good to know what others are charging.

Cheers. Ive messaged him now explaining this. I also added that a half day is minimum. But going forward what would be considered a fair rate? Im not really that fussed about getting any work just now as Im kinda snowed under with other things. Im really doing this job to get in his good books as he's a local guy who supplies a lot of firewood and has access to a lot of nice logs that hopefully going forward I can buy off of him.

Hey, I know Ive asked this before but I cant find anything looking back through the threads. Ive someone wanting some Oak Milled and Ive said £30 an hour to him and then never spoke to him again for a couple of months. Anyway, he called back and still wants me out to Mill this Oak. So I was really looking back again to see what I was recommended to charge. I'll stay at £30 an hour as thats what I told him, but as mentioned by someone before I'll tell him its a full day at £30 an hour. But there was mention of Blades and fair usage etc. So before I message him back any advice would be appreciated. Cheers.

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Thats a really good price!