happy birthday jmb.
have a drink tonight. dont forget your keys , or at least leave the car open this time

LoL. Cheers 

JMB,

Happy birthday, did I miss something what have you done to your hand ?? Its just over a year since I had my surgery on my hand.

We saw those lights at the toolfest morning the Festool rep threw one across the yard to start his demo. A few scratches but it still worked. I just couldnt justify that much money for a little light we use the 110v plug in jobs anyway £15 each lol

Cheers dude!


How is your hand any way?   Mine ain't as bad didn't need surgery only 7stitches.    

I agree they are costly BUT the 110v are good for a job your on a for a few days set up but for traveling around job to job all the time they are awkward to transport as they can easily break during transport.  Having two festool lights on hand iis perfect for me they are bright enough to light up a Large room and work in easily.  If I go to another room I can take the light with me unlike I 110v halogen unless u have more set up you have to have a long lead so you can move it about.  

Im Working on this job which is a Large house with no lights at all!  Annoying thing is I'm working all over so need light everywhere but I'm only doing 1-2 days a week for that job  so I ain't going to bring all my halogens onto the job set them all up to leave on the job as it ain't my problem really der are no lights on the job.  

Their are 3 joiners on that job every day  so they should be arranging some lights not me. So selfish me will now just turn up with my festool lights to light just up my area to work in!

   Der are 2 joiners aged 23ish and one 50/60years old on the job every day  I can only be on the job once twice a week as I have other jobs on the go and I'm considered head joiner for that job haahaa lol   I do all the intrecate work and I have been told by the clients to take control when the stairs come and need to be fitted.   Love it really don't need to do shitty skirting and architrave they are doing all that!  I just build stuff!   I gotta hurry up and make all the architrave soon for that job so they can start fitting it!

Jmb


Jmb

Nice my fav car!  Pictures??? I would of taken pictures with me standing next to it at least! 

100 people man sod da i like working with people but not da many I would be to wary of my tools  thinking some one will take something all the time. Sounds like a site job


Jmb

Not festool BUT in a Snowboarding world Libtech is like Festool!


Just showing off my new  Lib-tech Banana Magic  I picked up yesterday and gave it a spin in Chill factor!! With a new Burton bag and Burton Cartels bindings!  All I got was £10 discount! If it was not for how rare this board is in the UK I would of walked out of the shop and gone else where!  

Just like festool its unfair!  This board in USA is $696.96 Dollars and that works out to be £438 pounds!  But like everything in UK we pay over the odds compared to USA and this boards costs £620 here in the UK

Do we have any snowboarders here on FOG?!?!??!?!?!

 Link

Having broken my tailbone skateboarding, completely dislocating my knee and breaking both my wrists kickboxing, not to mention breaking my nose. I'm done with action sports!! Looks fun though

Luck has nothing to do with it, crazy does.

Lol I ain't crazy just normal lol  that's y I aint broken anything yet touch wood!

Jmb

Snow boarding holds a special place in my heart.

I got 'into' boarding about 12 years ago while living in Utah. Never got any where close to good at it but I always had a good time. When I my son came to visit, I took him. Although it was rented gear, it was his first time on a REAL board, not some Walmart wannbe POS. It completely changed his perspective on boarding. Over the years since, he collected some `real` gear and boarding became one of his loves.

When I moved back east, we often talked about going again, together. All to often I suffered from the money/time dilemma... you guys know the one,.... not having BOTH at the same time. In Feb. of last year, he put a deposit down for a new board which he was supposed to pick up towards the end of March. He told me that I could have his old (current) board so we could start going again, together. Fate had other designs.

Tragically, I ended up with that gear. Last season, I was able to get three days of boarding in on that gear before everyplace closed down and I greatly look forward to the upcoming season. I know he is with me as I make my runs, even if it is only in spirit.

Peter,

I saw on the news yesterday/today that the guns have been turned on at some mountains of this week. Some of the resorts have scheduled openings for Thanksgiving weekend, although they admit that they are being somewhat optimistic. My memory tells me that in these parts, winters that are late to start more than make up for it in depth .

The Halloween storm was a fluke, as we have had 50F+ weather virtually everyday since.

Sad story Harry I had read about your loss before all the best mate.

My son has just started skiing lessons with his new school just on a dry slope , we dont always have the luxury of real snow here  . He is off to Jasper in Canada next April sadly I couldnt afford to go with him but maybe the next time if he likes it and maybe my younger son will be into it by then. Last time I went skiing was over 10 years ago and I tried snowboarding out for the first time and loved it might give it another go one day. I was very lucky to get some tips from the son of one of my friends at the time he was a pro snowboarder (british champion at the time). I fealt very comfortable on a board the boots are way better than ski boots  

yeah show me some vids dude of some of your moves lol

Flow bindings!!  Nah I dont like them they are heavier and just aint a fan of flow bindings! I know the ratchet are a bit slow but I prefer them always have.

I have done snowboarding for 13years and skiing for 21 years I prefer snowboarding.


JMB

Peter,

All too often it seems that I need little more than 30" (the distance from my board to my backside) 

get that van tidied