Lobby Dosser responds:

Please could you tell me if this is true or not..


I can't tell you if it's true about licensing and age for bandsaw use
in the UK, but it sounds like complete BS. The bandsaw is slightly
easier to use than the tablesaw, and a good deal less dangerous, so if
the law exists, it's idiotic.

It may. I think you need special dispensation or something to use a
chainsaw now in the UK.


Quite a difference, though. A chainsaw is one of the most dangerous portable
power tools around, while a bandsaw is not particularly dangerous (given,
though, that anything with a blade with teeth and a motor driving it can cause
considerable damage).

Charlie Self
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would
promise them missionaries for dinner." H. L. Mencken