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Message: [QUOTE="Colin, post: 162256, member: 5507"] Hi, Thanks Silentrunning. It's a good job they use Petroleum and paraffin and not diesel because otherwise here in the UK we wouldn't have timber preservative because our government are attacking anyone using diesel especially diesel car owners. How times have changed though over the last 50 years; as a child every home used DDT and Creosote; parents knew of the dangers so washed spills from skin and clothes and washed their hands after use; the children were taught to respect such chemicals so grew up with them unharmed; now everything is covered in safety stickers and if it carries on the way it is doing there won't be enough space to attach all the safety stickers on items we buy so what next; start issuing books to explain if we drop something heavy on our fingers or feet it's going to hurt? I started work aged 15 in a deep coal mine as an apprentice mechanical engineer where I was exposed to moving machinery that could and would tear me to bits given chance but right from the start I was taught safe working practices and if I was caught doing something unsafe I sure knew about it; here's a video showing the machinery drives I was exposed to; not in a saw mill but in coal mining; similar machine drives though with line shafts; fast & loose pulleys; huge flat drive belts and many big exposed gears; the H&S lot would close such a place down in a blink these days but why? Accidents were generally genuine accidents not down to operator failure but a machine breakdown of some kind; [MEDIA=youtube]idDUEYIyijQ[/MEDIA] During my time in the mine I only witnessed two accidents; we were using the cage to lower a big heavy roll of conveyor belt down the shaft when a guy trapped his foot but he was wearing madatory safety shoes; the second was a roof cave in where a guy became injured and we had to repair the damaged conveyor it was very unfortunate indeed for the cave in to happen just at that point. Mistakes these days though are a very lucrative earner for the government; long gone are the days of a good telling off from a police officer (I almost said policeman but even this could be regarded now as discrimination against women) no long drawn out court case just a good ticking off; now it's either an instant fine or if more money can be made it's a court case; I'm very old fashioned and find just getting out of bed these days I'm likely to be breaking some law or other. It's a good job Ian isn't keen or I'd get my legs slapped for wandering light years off topic? :) I'm not complaining about many of the changes because our lifespan is greatly increased to the point the government are now calling us pensioners as "A burden upon society" perhaps the likes of DDT and Creosote should not have been banned because we now live to receive a state pension? :( Kind regards, Colin. [/QUOTE]

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