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  1. All depends what sized wood you usually use. If 4x2 for framing/sheds/shed roofs is the biggest you do not need a slider, whereas if you are say building an extension and need to cut 8 x 2 joists the the sliding saw is handy. A sliding saw is also handy for angled cuts on 6 x 1 for example where the length of cut is 8 inches or more. For the odd longer/bigger cut you can still use a hand saw, they still work. You can also do a lot of these bigger cuts with a circular saw but if you are doing a lot of repetative cuts the sliding saw can be quicker. The slider does take up more space if this is a consideration. I can cut 4 x 4 posts on mine, I just need to turn them. I have become so used to where the blade 'lands' that it is almost second nature now.
  2. 7 world titles but promotes a racist organisation that stands for the destruction of society. Biggest chip ever seen on his shoulder yet he has been given every advantage consistant with his driving talent. George Digweed - 26 world titles Phil Taylor - 16 world titles Plus the other well mentioned motorcycle riders who take insane risks and also have overtaking in their races.
  3. I will also add that I have had poorly engineered sliding saws in the past at the lower end of the price scale and these have just been worse than useless with their inaccurate cuts which is why I went for simple and reliable this time round.
  4. Been using my evolution for the last couple of days, even managed to chuck it on the concrete floor a couple of times as I did not hang on to the handle at the end of a cut (trying to be too quick as usual), apart from needing re-setting nothing broke. Do not rely on any mitre saw markings, always check for square with a square in both planes before use. The only thing I do not like is that it does not quite cut right through a 6 x 1, but that is more than compensated for by it being small and lightweight and so far very consistant cuts after 6 years or so with no discernable wear/movement in the fulcrum. This is the one I use, only 60 quid https://www.screwfix.com/p/evolution-r210cms-210mm-electric-single-bevel-compound-mitre-saw-240v/7277p
  5. impersonating a police officer - tut tut tut - whatever next you should be bloomin grateful you had to prove your age, for many of us that is a distant memory
  6. A fellow beater was too slow getting out of the way of a panicking adult roe doe and received a similar blow to the above. Yes we all laughed. Apparently it was quite painful.
  7. Therein lies the problem with the EU and why so many voted to leave. The EU does do some very good work but it is so overshadowed by yet another layer of politics that folk are sick of. If a country wants to join, the EU should welcome them with open arms rather than imposing all sorts of conditions. The 'club' has become the worst kind of parasite on countries rather than developing a culture of fraternity. In true Orwellian style some EU countries are clearly more equal than others. There is so much good the EU could have done, such as bringing the car manufacturers to order over their inflated claims of fuel efficiency - no action and everyone in the EU buying a new car is affected by this. They have also blatently ignored their own laws (surely thereby breaking some law along the way) by not ensuring that migrants entering the EU have to register in the country they enter. A friend of mine I played golf with when I lived in Brussels was part of a 30 strong department in the EU studying 30mph/50kph speed limits - I have never seen the results of their work and I know he was on far more money than me. I have sat in Kitty O'Shea's in Shuman (that is a district in Brussels by the way just around the corner from the EU commission), having a pint with a welsh MEP who informed me that even if they did not fly home, all MEP's are given 1st class return air tickets home every week. These can be cashed in if not used. I am very glad not to be paying for these types of spending any longer
  8. It is possible that the EU would not let Scotland rejoin as NS would probably make a term of her presidency part of the deal. The EU should be enormously grateful to the UK for removing Bliar from that particular disaster also. I cannot say the exact connection but I know of a person who was an advisor to Bliar. They say he was the most obnoxious, self-centred, hypocritical politician they ever had the misfortune to meet and that Bliar was an entirely accurate description. This person has always kept to themselves about what went on with this one exception.
  9. I think the memories of those we wish were still with us always seem to hit home at some point at this time of the year. I lost my best mate at school to a speeding driver nearly 50 years ago, I still wonder fondly what sort of trouble we would have managed to get into. Send two rockets up.
  10. a priceless memory using an old friend for the day. Reminded me of waiting out for pigeons on snow topped sprouts in nothing but a parka with the only hammer gun I ever used, a 12g single bore Cooey. Every cartridge was a proper cost compared with pocket money income at the time so it did mean you took good shots.
  11. grating fresh horseradish is a challenge. Have a load to do tomorrow, think I am going to try my paint spraying mask and a pair of swimming goggles. For this evening though the horseradish dip for the various nibbles is helping the prosecco flow and I have more brownie points Happy New year for later all as I am anticipating a good evening
  12. It is good news but I would not get too excited, 2024 is the projected timescale to produce enough, assuming no further mutations which is quite a supposition. I have not yet heard of any significant plans to ramp up production facilities to a level whereby we can get ahead, which is somewhat surprising.
  13. Another excellent video, I thought it flowed well. Better a bit late and still top quality as it will not be late next September. Looking forward to the next one.
  14. 243deer

    Tier 5

    Tier 27a is being planned now. It will be 100% effective and see us covid free in 3 months. It will include closing all ports and all shops so you need to start panic buying at least 1000 toilet rolls and 4 freezers each to tide you over. It is time to get on as nothing has worked so far and it will be years before there are enough vaccines, assuming it does not mutate again. Like the common cold and flu this may just be something we all have to live with
  15. yes they are, including the UK, but it is the EU now childishly insisting on rabies passports for UK dogs travelling. As the EU wish to be treated as a whole why should we disappoint them?
  16. if England offered 5 billion a year for someone to take Scotland off our hands we would be 5 billion + per year better off, but then money is not everything and I have a fair few friends in Scotland who do not exactly agree with the idea of independance
  17. at the very least I would recommend a rabies and malaria vaccination, after all the EU has both
  18. Evidence on using lead from New Zealand and Norway is being ignored by the main shooting organisations including BASC, the NGO and GWCT despite their somewhat dishonest claims that they are evidence based. Connor and Terry you both have an agenda to try and help large number driven game shoots survive which I understand because it benefits shooting in general and I certainly do not want to see all the woodland designed for shooting disappear for either intensive arable nor housing use. However chucking .410 pest controllers under a bus because it suits you is not acceptable. The arguments being presented to our politicians are not balanced and not evidence based by the shooting organisations. My mrs recently did a survey of ASDA, Tescos and Sainsburys in Swaffham and not one game bird was for sale. Regardless of what it was shot with I cannot see a miraculous change in the British housewife resulting in sudden game use and that is in one of the foremost game producing areas of the country. I personally have processed nearly 200 game birds this season for mine and friends use, birds that were free because they were not wanted by large number shoots. I have no problem with non-lead (everything is toxic to some extent hence I did not use the phrase non-toxic) shot for game going into the human food chain but why have you even suggested the ban on lead for vermin in .410's or not suggested an exclusion as New Zealand has?
  19. I heard that the Daimlers were better, I was on first name terms with the AA man, I guess gramps was unlucky except the litre Granada that replaced it never broke down. I did manage to get its computer down to 3.2 mpg though going up a steepish hill after filling up with fuel (the speed cop on the bike used to wait on the top of the hill so I went past him as though butter would not melt, older and a little wiser now).
  20. For me whether to get a thermal is more philosophical than anything despite current budget constraints. I managed for years with fieldcraft during daylight, then succomed to long distance white light and the different coloured filters for rabbiting and foxing. Now have a Yukon for rabbits and the odd fox which is highly effective. I am resisting thermal despite friends telling me it is a game changer for munties especially. Not sure I want my shooting to become an electronic game.
  21. all of you that remember early Range Rovers were the lucky ones, Gramps bought an XJ6 or 12 (cannot remember) Jag in the 70's just because he always wanted one, the number stood stood for the number of months spent back at the dealers trying to get it to run. It had 2 fuel tanks, one for getting to the end of the road and one for getting home.
  22. if anyone deserves independance we in Norfolk do, after all most would be pleased to dis-associate - we have Cromer crab, plenty of turkeys (except the ones we had to cull due to foreign avian flu) and most of the country's sugar supply, happy chrimbo everyone, nothing seems too serious at this time on Christmas day when the yardarm was particularly low.
  23. beautiful guns but beyond my pay grade. Good that some folk can afford them and keep the skills alive.
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