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Only in recent times. For more well over 30 years I was a shop and interior fit-out joiner, which means I have travelled way too many miles doing the job (and too many late nights in the shop building it first). But having been brought-up in the country I had the opportunity as a teenager and...

Yes, silly you! Ever heard of living within accessible distance of where you work? Ever looked at the numbers of buses/trams/trains in cities? There is very little real need for anyone to drive a car within cities. The fact that people do is often because they are lazy, or put their needs before...

I wouldn't. I think he is hilarious at times. But then I'm at an age where I feel no compunction to "go with the flow" any more

JC = Jeremy Clarkson, as in this clip

Where I work we'd say you are a natural banksman and station you outside the gate all day every day

I like the approach some of them have of crossing the road - walk to edge of pavement, balance kiddie chair on the back wheels, push front out into the stream of traffic and wait for assorted screechings of brakes, honked horns and shouted expletives before crossing - a whilst texting ane never...

Nah! Bamboo is technically a grass - so not wood at all JC would be proud of you!

As the late, great Spike Milligan said on his gravestone, "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite"

Did you go for a corded Bosch, though? (Didn't you quote the GKT55CE?) I was referring to the corded Makita (SP6000) not the cordless (DSP600/DSP601) which generally works out a tad cheaper than other makes simply because of the economies of scale - Makita is a very big player, far bigger than...

Maybe so, but they try to screw us at every opportunity in my experience

It was on the market about 8 or 9 years back in the UK. Seems to have disappeared here maybe 4 or 5 years back, although they are still available in Italy and Germany (e.g. SauterShop sell them).

I'm a subbie in the large build field these days. The contractors I work for in general won't increase what they pay us until they can no longer get bodies to work for them. My expenses getting to work are never in their calculations because we aren't paid to drive - we're paid to build

Yes, indeed. I well remember one firm I worked for in the 1980s where every week I travelled from Ormskirk to Reading to collect a works van and then spent the week working on jobs between Swindon and Bristol in the main whilst at the same time a colleague travelled from Basingstoke to Reading...

It doesn't work that way. The construction industry is a lot more about people working for main contractors on fixed-rate/priced-0measure schemes and where it is impossible to pass on that increased cost to the customer. If you want to see the issue first hand go and stand on an overpass into...

The thing that most peeves me is those morons who walk along staring down at their phones and texting as they go, expecting you to get out of their way, even if you are carrying or moving something heavy, such as a tool backpack and a drag-along tool box. I do find it amusing, though, if I halt...

RIVER DANCE And I DID just say that out loud

As a tradesman, I concur. My personal "environmental policy" is not to drive whenever I can use public transport. That means I won't work on sites with inadequate night security nor on sites where I can't get a secure lock box in a secure compound for my kit at night. The problem is that there...

I must be a super master carpenter in that case - I have corded tools by Hilti, Festool and Mafell... :ROFLMAO: Basically they are all just means to an end, though, nothing more. I read a recommendation for the DW622 somewhere on the net a few years back and bought one. A nice little router...

I have a DW745 - and yes, that type of saw is really noisy, but unless you have the space to set of a large (say 1.5 metre) run off table plus adequate side support tables even a cast iron table will be no good to you - to rip down an 8 x 4ft sheet on a table saw takes at least 22ft x 8ft, give...

Another Wera user. For DIY their Extra Hard are very durable - for heavy trade use the only choice is the diamond-coated Impaktor