On 10/12/2016 12:35, Richard wrote:
"Nightjar" wrote in message
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On 10-Dec-16 10:50 AM, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Xmas tree trunk is too big to fit my stand. Ways of reducing the
diameter,
please. Tree is too big to clamp in my vice so will have to be done
outside freehand, as it were. Not really used to working with raw
timber,
and don't possess an axe. Just the usual workshop wood working tools.


I would have thought that the trunk being too large to fit into the
stand might suggest that the tree is larger than the stand is designed
to support safely.

And the person acquiring the tree is just trying to impress. FFS, would
you post to a newsgroup if your stupidity put you in his position?


I'll see if I can put him in touch with that receptionist that gave me a
hand job in the pub car park on last years Christmas works do.

The clumsy bitch removed a fair bit of bark from my trunk.

--
Adam