Not just me, then? Especially anything I find parked on the pavement - but the passenger mirror, so that the driver has to get out again.
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I leave the passenger mirror alone. Reason being they wont use it, too lazy to get out and correct it down here. Driver's side is still enough of a pain, esp in winter when they wind the window down to push it back, car gets cold, they get cold.
david1701
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Indeed, which is where H&S desk jockeys good intentions come unstuck. If you are allowed to take "rope knives" onto site, you will start to use them for cutting the plastic ties around pallets, for which they work quite well. Then you'll start to use them for slitting open plastic bags, for which they just about work. Then you'll start to use them for cutting cable ties, which they don't really do very well at all, and they have become more dangerous than the knives that they replaced.but thats a rope knife - it will only cut rope- HnS can be retarded
david1701
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guessing they'd have a heart attack seeing me using a big knife to cut open hay bales in the dark
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I work in catering, so I can get away with using knives.
In fact I often use knives to cut open boxes, etc. Sometimes they go blunt, so I sharpen them on broken plate. H&S would go mental. I suppose you just have to be sensible.
In fact I often use knives to cut open boxes, etc. Sometimes they go blunt, so I sharpen them on broken plate. H&S would go mental. I suppose you just have to be sensible.
david1701
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do broken plates work as knife sharpening then? I suck at keeping knives sharp 
Rhythm Thief
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I suck at keeping knives sharp
Well, there you really are running the risk of injuring yourself ...
david1701
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lolololol
crikey - youth of today! What's wrong with a hand auger?
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do broken plates work as knife sharpening then? I suck at keeping knives sharp
Its a very simple skill to learn once you realise how to do it. My workmate is the best at sharpening knives. He's a chef and uses japanese stones.
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They get 'em started young nowadays ...
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Fiona N
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Knife sharpening is sort of my 'house present' when I stay with people.
So often their lovely kitchen knives are 'blunt enough to ride to Edinburgh', as my Mum used to say, and thus very dangerous. I can usually borrow an oilstone from somewhere and sharpen the lot in an hour - something I learnt to do when I worked in a butchers as my Saturday job while at school.
At home I've two Japanese double stones (coarse/med and med/fine) and use a ceramic 'steel' in between proper sharpenings so my knives do tend to scalpel-like. The only accident we've ever had was when a guy dropped a boning knife he was abusing and then tried to catch it*
You never do that - just jump backwards fast.* Nearly severed his thumb - there was so much blood it looked like a particular nasty murder scene.
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I'm pretty good with chisels. You could shave with my chisels. I use a British carborundum stone I inherited from Grandad, come to think of it 2 of my best chisels were his including a morticing job that I didn't appreciate till I started doing oak_framing. It's a beast.