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Basically the earth needs more trees and fewer people, but that is hard to achieve So we should give up trying? No, I still think the ideal is well regulated government run systems, we simply need to try harder.

Tulipwood sands much faster too being softer. We buy our tulipwood a few months before we use it and that helps. Apparently more northerly grown tulipwood is better, being slower grown and harder, available from Sykes. Best to machine the wood, leave overnight and any pieces which start to bend...

Privatised utilities is a nonsense in my opinion. This may seem a socialist view but it should be possible for state-run utilities to be well run and overall done for less. Just think how much money would be saved by absense of marketing and duplicated administrative systems...but there is no...

I have a small axe (pic below) but never used it for joinery, just a general garden-shed axe to split kindling or to hammer with on the blunt end, but hardly used anymore and rusty. Different shape, probably is intended for splitting kindling. The dynamics of shape and balance for different...

By the way when I was a nipper my Dad opened the pantry door one evening a rat was staring him in the face on the shelf in front of his face. He went to the kitchen, grabbed the biggest saucepan, tucked his trouser legs into his socks, went back, bashed the rat to death in one hit. The saucepan...

Apparently, spreading wood-chips (so presumably shavings) over sandy and clay soil over the years vastly improves the composition of the soil in gardens.

Always a shame to just burn a potential energy source to get rid of it. If it can generate heat in a workshop or usefully otherwise without smoke problems great. Otherwise, farmers - poultry in particular can make use of shavings and garages can use sawdust to soak up spills. Please find someone...

We don't have a tumble drier but in our old cupboard downstairs which used to house a boiler, I converted it to dry clothes using an air humidifier. So the water is collected in a container. It takes about 8 hours to dry a washing machine load of light clothes (maybe double for towels and jeans)...

Not easiest any more, I think the jigsaw has superceded it. Here is advice for anyone wanting to use a jigsaw for an accurate result: Position your work or template next to the wall absolutely plumb, temporarily fixing it if necessary so it is perfectly steady. Use an appropriate scrap with a...

Blum warn about small children losing the tips of their fingers in some of the wide opening versions of their hinges so please assess risk before use. Also make sure the bulkier hinge will not obstruct the drawer when closed. Should be fine if not too close to the front of the cabinet...

As Sean says, the base can be on supports, (the base could be tongued and grooved boards) so can rest on an 18mm square batten, which can be screwed to the lower edge of the side rails. Keep the strength of full material in the side rails, as grooving them would weaken the support they give.

There is no comparison between a school leaver and someone in their mid 20s. With a school leaver (in my experience and individuals vary very much) you spend a lot of time teaching them how to be a mature adult, as well as the skills themselves, lots of problems which cost time and money. Some...

I'm impressed!

Several years ago the pcb went on our record one but they were very good and replaced FOC. No problems with the replacement.

I have both the Record and the larger Jet one. Both good. Workshop is 60'x25'. The larger one is near the dust extractor to catch the dust caused by the shake-down etc. and it is where we do sanding and routing among other machine based work and the smaller one at the opposite end where we do...

That is more plausible. Or someone has made an error.

Have had my record power cast iron adjustable drill stand many years and love it, especially as you can put a really heavy duty power drill in it, much more compact and powerful than most drill presses which have a built in motor, and it can be carried around or even taken on site. I even have a...

I find it gives great peace of mind to be able to log in and see the live camera footage on my mobile phone any time day or night, after maybe a moth has fluttered in front of the lens and I get an audible notification. That assumes you have wifi or sim-card access of course with a reasonable...

Not just Covid. Brexit, shipping charge increases, HS2, scarcity and greed.

"I'm very cynical about new technology as a way of saving the planet." Sandyn, do you ride a horse or have a car these days? Could you imagine all the horse poo on the roads if everybody had a horse instead of a car ;) New technology is relative for each generation.