Michael Elwyn Turner Woodcraft

https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/245548

I & over 450 thousand citizens of Wales support the removal of the 20mph limit, & No to any more tax wasting assembly members, we have 60 too many as it is,

Petition: We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law The new 20mph law is coming into force on the 17th September and it will mark the end of having socialism in power in Wales. Welsh Government claim to have supporting evidence stating that reducing to 20mph EVERWHERE saves lives! Yet we get flyers merely claiming that it will, and opinions from doct...

A sad shout out by Justin Perry a hard lesson as to why we never ever wear gloves on rotary power tools,
I broke the number one rule when using a jointer and I paid for it. No push stick and wearing gloves. I've got hundreds of hours on that machine and in less than a second I have a permanent reminder of being dumb. Gross pic in the comments.
EDIT: Clarification was requested so here it is. I had a stack of hard maple and walnut that i slabbed from two trees i fell a year ago and they are dry enough to just clean up and stack better. I had already flattened the whole stack but there were two small basically junk pieces there so i decided i would just hit them before i quit. I was going pass after pass on this one and it had to remove so much that my glove tip eventually got to where it was just dragging the bed without me knowing and boom. In less than a second it snagged it and pulled it in.

NEVER WEAR GLOVES ON THESE MACHINES AND USE A PUSH STICK EVERYTIME!

An interesting job, a campervan fit out, sink cooker unit & signature doors, very pleased with the turn out.

A lovely pair of gates for a good friend, Swedish red pine, coated with Ebony Saddolin, gunstock joints on the head, very pleased with the way they turned out.

This is a protest from Small businesses in Wales, if the 20 isnt plenty was about safety we would have a national campaign for the green cross code & bicycle proficiency tests, in every school in the land & adverts flooding media & social media, that has not happened this is not about safety, this is about criminalising motorists, this is about getting people banned out of cars vans lorries delivery people, this is an attack on anyone who needs a vehicle for work, what happened to Welsh labour standing up for the rights of the workers, those workers & businesses whose transportation costs are about to rise, lower speeds in hilly Wales, lower gears equals more fuel & more pollution, longer commute times, longer working days, longer delivery times, equals more standing, time less production & lastly a massive increase in costs to the taxpaying consumer, we workers, motorists, taxpayers & small business object & do not consent to this ill thought out scheme, 20 isnt plenty being forced upon us taxpayers, with very poor democratic consultation, with very little benefit to safety & health, but plenty of negative socio economic disadvantages, to Wales all small business & ultimately the taxpaying customers. WALES DESERVES BETTER.

Stop the 20 isnt plenty, no more new assembly members,

Saw this had to laugh, it sometimes happens, 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

HOW TO ENGAGE THE SERVICES OF A TRADESMAN

-Call the tradesman after lunch on friday or during a bank holiday weekend.

- Hassle him to fit you in.

- Estimate the time and ease of job. (They like that) explain that it is a five minute job that you could do yourself if “only you had the time.”

- Negotiate the smallest most inconvenient window of booking opportunity. (I have to go to the gym or some other more important engagement than your s**t job, will smooth this over.)

- Ask for a fixed price. (Even the cause of the problem and fix is unknown) When the tradie refuses to be nailed down, some jovial comment like “I should have been a carpenter” will keep the negotiation nice and light.

- Tell him that you will run it by your wife and call back in five.

- Call ten other builders and then phone back. If he answers the phone again and arrives be sure to be in the shower or on the way home.

- Show him the job which does not vaguely resemble what you described.

- Ask him to move his van. Someone needs to get their car out and it clearly cant wait the “five minutes”.

- Show him where the problem is. Explain how you cant find the key to the side gate and he will have to lug his equipment around.

- Now is probably a good time to point out that the problem appeared on Monday.

- Embark on a long winded story involving names of people he could not give a toss about, and every completely unrelated event leading to this moment in time.

- Share your half cocked theory on what is going on. (“Air in the pipes” perhaps?)

- Apologise for the mess and kids you’d left lying around where he will be working. Explain how it is someone else’s fault. It will make it more palatable.

- Tell them one of your close relatives was a builder. (He will be extremely interested and it will create a sense of kinship between you)

- Explain that you would be quite capable of doing the job and that you have done heaps of diy in the past. (He will love to hear that his knowledge, skills and necessary equipment amount to being a glorified handyman.)

- Tell the tradie that normally you use a different guy but he was not answering his phone.

- Wait until he is nearly finished and ask him if he has time to embark on “small job” that in reality is a days work. There are no sweeter words on a Friday afternoon at 3 pm than “while I've got you here”

- Watch the job closely. The skills you gleaned from your family member will place you well to critique his every action.

- Pull out some parts you picked up from B&Q 10 years ago. (No sense wasting huh?)

- Keep locking the door. It may be a minor inconvenience for the workman to keep having to ask you to unlock it whenever he needs to go to his van, but home invasions are on the rise.

- Complain about the invoice and whinge to all your mates about the price and unpleasant demeanour.

- Call a week later and say “Ever since your guy was here, the refrigerator light isn’t coming on”

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