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Hi all, I've got what I believe is a Juniper tree in my back garden. Long story short, it's going to be coming down. a) Do we think it's a Juniper? b) Is there anything worthwhile to be done with Juniper wood (other than burning...) c) If there's anything to be done with it - what's the best...

I've had to do a couple of running repairs on fencing recently by adding some bracing struts, to anchor the struts I've used groundbolts (I first encountered them in Germany where they're Erdankers). For very quick secure fixing I can't recommend them highly enough, a few good belts with a lump...

For anyone that's interested, I converted my TS55R to use the dustbag from the TSC55, Festool Part 500393 "Festool SB-TSC Chip Collection Bag For TSC55 and HKC55" You also need Festool Part 10015824 Angled Piece to Connect Chip Collection Bag to TS55 Total cost of parts from FFX was ~£38...

Book on Amazon, also available from a diminishing number of high streets... as per Phil's post below. Edited to make it clear(er) that this is an excerpt from the BBC's Radio 4 website.

OK, I'd heard that where a rat's head can fit its body can follow, but I'd never seen it before, this video is grimly fascinating. :shock:

And today's entry for stuff you couldn't make up (SYCMU) is Female driver crashes while pleasuring herself with sex toy Static in traffic, or ecstatic in traffic?

Hi all, Well, as of this morning I'm the proud owner of a (new to me) Hegner Multicut 2S variable speed saw, 2003 vintage. It was almost an accidental purchase, I'd been watching it on Ebay and it didn't sell, so when it was relisted with a 'buy it now' I jumped in. Anyway, it seems to be...

Some 'highlights' from a rather grim fireworks safety video, which at first glance you might think was over the top, until you read about this poor 22 year old lad from Maine who paid a horrible price for a stupid drunken lark. Please keep any discussion respectful; real people were killed and...

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this but I suppose the recovered items have passed the 'waiting' period and the owners haven't bothered (or noticed...?) to report them as stolen. I suppose compared to the alternative of sending them to landfill/scrap it's a cost-effective way of dealing with...

This is what happens when people don't follow basic rules for guarding blades

Warning: this is a really moving story of one dog and his man, don't watch it you're prone to the vapours. Denali More blubber than whale fritters.

I use a Dust Deputy cyclone on top of a 60 litre blue food bin with my workshop vac. Today on removing the bag I had my usual wrestling match to get the bag out of the bin, the drum shape tends to make the bag wedge in place, so I end up inverting the whole shooting match into another bag and...

Has anybody got any experience of solar window film? We've got a few rooms that become overly warm on summer afternoons when the sun bears on the back of the house. I do want to have 'reasonable' visibility of the garden from inside; I'm not concerned about privacy, the cows in the field behind...

Context: I'm in the middle of laying a new floor, floating engineered wood type, throughout my hallway, stairs and landing. I don't want the solid expanse of wood up the stairs and will paint the risers white to match the existing rails, banister, skirting. I already have to hand a sheet of 3mm...

I hope I can make one of these dates for the last flying Vulcan. There's a page on why this will be the final flying season. XH588's Youtube channel

I was idly Googling to see what information I could find on using brass and stainless screws in Western Red Cedar when I came across this article on the Corrosion of Metals by Wood on the NPL website of all places, also an interesting article on the V&A website. It's all a bit over the top for...

For anybody interested in rendering their Sketchup designs, the Visualizer extension/plug-in is now available free of charge. Apparently they're now focusing their efforts on a mobile product so Version 13 is their final release for desktop and they're releasing it free. I was sure I read...

A couple of years ago my parents had an apple tree removed from their back garden, the tree had been in their back garden since they bought the place in the late '60s, it was a mature tree when they moved in. In the general run of things many might consider it a daft expenditure of effort, but...

You can rewind to the beginning for the full experience, but this is the money-shot, I particularly like the way he looks up to check how things are going...

An interesting community project using Sketchup to design a multi-purpose 'Maker Bench' that can be customised to suit a wide variety of users through 2 different heights and user customised tops. There's a Blog article introducing the project and models in the 3D warehouse