whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote

I thought you also need to know what you are doing.

Depends on where the tree is.

Well it would normamly be on your own property
you just can't go on to someone elses land and
chop down a tree because you feel like it.

That's an entirely separate matter to what we were clearly
discussing, whether you need to know what you are doing.

There are plenty of trees on your own property where
you don't need to know what you are doing to cut it down.

Plenty of youtube videos of people ssaving money by cutting
therio own trees down and it ends up on their house or car.

And vastly more who managed to cut down
the tree without doing anything like that.

and even more getting a pro in to do it.

**** all are that stupid with the smaller trees.

If you have a brain you want to buy all the correct euipment

There is no "all the correct equipment", there
are plenty of different ways to cut trees down.

What does that mean ?

That there is a variety of equipment that
will be fine for cutting down most trees.

And you would need to either buy these tools

For peanuts from a garage/yard sale.

or rent them wouldn;t you.

Or just borrow them from someone who has one.

I lend mine to any of my mates that need to do that.

Ypu might also wan the PPE such as chain mail
trousers and other equipment the tree surgeons use.

Not if you use the less aggressive tools.

Bull****. I just got another electric chainsaw from
a garage/yard sale for just $20 and it works fine.

good for you. Doesn't mean you're
compendent to use it though.

You're welcome to get one of the other types of
saws that even someone as stupid as you can use.
Just saw one on one of the local facebook buy sell
swap groups this morning for just $20.

buying a saw doesn;t make you compendent to do the job.

This particular saw is a reciprocating saw that
even someone as stupid as you could use.

You don't need chain mail pants to use it either.

But of course you could break the H&S rules I suppose.

I broke no H&S rules except that in the summer I chose
to do it in just shorts and thongs, not even a shirt.

That's just one of the things that make you an idiot.

Nope, worked fine.

H&S isn't about whether or not something works fine.

It is for all but fools like you.

I bet you never even used PPE

I'm not stupid enough to use that.

course not, not even a hard hat,

I do have one of those but not stupid enough to use it.

Your skull is thick enough as it is.

Nothing is going to fall on it the way I build houses.

you just told me that your mates did it.

Can't manage even the most basic comprehension,
presumably because you are completely blotto, as always.

yuo told me yuor mates helped you build yuor house.

Only with the stuff that a single person can't do alone
like running the big J beams up onto the top of the walls.

were you just lying again

There is no again.

or do you forget your mates when it suites you.

Or you can't manage to work out the difference
between helping a mate when more than one
pair of hands is needed for a particular job
and getting the same thing with your place.

So you had a technoklutzes just going around doing the painting.

Nope. HE DID THAT ON HIS OWN HOUSE AFTER
HE GOT SUBCONTRACTORS TO DO ALL THE MORE
DIFFICULT STUFF.

So you didn;t help him then ?

I did on the design choices, how to use subcontractors
to do the work he didn't want to do himself, etc etc etc.

With another one, when the local council claimed that
the smallest bedrooms for the kids were smaller than
were allowed under the regulations, showed him the
bit in the building regulations where it said that built
in wardrobes are counted when calculating the size of
the room. That one was the one where we both worked
on both houses when more than one pair of hands was
needed with the roof beams etc.

in one case one of them quite literally painted
the outside of the concrete block place with a
broom and a bucket of paint.

That was HIS OWN HOUSE, not mine, stupid.

Well lots of people paint their own houses, but that's not building it.

Never said that HE built his own house, stupid.

I actually said

The worst of the technoklutzes just did the easiest stuff,

which means little.

You never could bull**** your way out of a wet paper bag.

Nope, I said

The worst of the technoklutzes just did the easiest stuff,

and there's more than one of them.

Nope, not with those that were infected with the new
house fad by me building my own house from scratch.

But any fool can build their own house, millions do.

**** all do all the design and building
work starting from a bare block of land.

No one else in here has done that.

But if you havent the land uhnless youm can hang it
from a cloud you can;t build your own home in London

Wrong, as always.

and that goes for most major cities.

Wrong, as always.

you said you built your own house,

Yes.

which of course any fool can do with help from others,

I didn't have any help from others in that sense.

We did a bit of helping each other with the stuff that
wasn't possible for a single person to do by themselves
like with getting the big J beams up on the roof and the
metal decking. We helped each other to do that stuff.

so where is this house ?

Australia.

HE PAINTED HIS OWN HOUSE THAT WAY, stupid.

why when you can do it yuorself.?

That is what I did, painted my own house.

They all painted their own houses.

That particular technoklutz chose to use a broom and
a bucket of paint WHEN PAINTING HIS OWN HOUSE.

So what is wrong with doing it that way.

It wastes a lot more paint than doing
it with a roller with concrete blocks.

So what did you paint your house with.

A roller with the blocks. Paint brush with the RHS.

Got the neighbour's little kids to paint the oregon
fascias with wood stain with paint brushes with the
timber all on trestles on the ground. Mission Brown,
little white kids turned into little brown kids |-)

I don't give a flying red **** what some H&S regulation requires.

I do what makes sense.

I got a licensed electrician to claim he had done the work.

So that was a lie then wasnt; it.

Ypou needed someone else to sign off the work you did.

Nope, to claim he did the work. He didn't.

So you couldn't sign it off yourself then why is that ?

Because that's what the law requires here.

I'll try again why didn;t you sign the work off yuorself ?

Because that's what the law requires here.

if DIY is cheaper.

No if about it.

Or why did you get him in when you could have done it youself.

Because I couldn't legally sign it off myself, fool.

Are you too stupid is that the reason.

Because I couldn't legally sign it off myself, fool.

Why did you need someone esle ?

Because that is what the law requires here, the electrical
wiring has to be done by a licensed electrical contractor.

Why didn't you become a licensed electrical
contractor if it's cheaper to DIY.

Because that requires years as an apprentice even
if you do understand the wiring rules completely.