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Dimensionaly the drawer sizes aren't too bad, I've made bigger, but the material sizes are way over the top, not surprising the runner's...

Fauteuil en bois A chair designed by Ettore Bugatti based on the Adirondack Like the Adirondack it's surprisingly comfortable Made in...

Not sure, but I believe the reasonable force to protect your property applies. Did you enjoy your trip into the swamps. In 1987 we did a...

Maybe but much worse has happened to thieves around here, we have many kilometres of logging roads around here. The perp will not be found.

@Dr Al I would be right chuffed if I could even make them in my fully equipped workshop.👏

A set of four boxes, all made with hand tools only (although some of the timber had previously been resawn on a bandsaw). They were...

I love his admonition about the bat as a potential weapon, and promptly advises best use !! Of course, you only have it beside the door...

On a slight tangent regarding police intervention, two of our fields are separated by a unused rail bed. We have about 7 acres fenced in...

I worked with someone who could never resist stealing other people's food. One day he ate a whole bar of laxative chocolate that had...

My mother advised by a senior copper years ago to keep a few masonry nails and a claw hammer on her bedside table. She was going to...

Regrettably police don't respond to minor/property crimes here either. And to make matters worse, law abiding citizens have no means of...

As I recall, Michael Bloomburg cut crime in New York by not ignoring the little stuff for those very reasons.

And then the police will take an interest.. and you and your wife will be prosecuted. Freind of mine plagued by robberies at a farm...

It's the wild , wild west out there unfortunately the victims seldom get justice. Back in the Spring there were a series if brazen...

Afflicted!