WaltA wrote:
On 19 Oct 2005 20:54:23 GMT,Nick Maclaren wrote:
Be sure to buy a few spare legs, the odd spare arm and a spare
neck
or two.

Rubbish, pandering to legislators, do-gooders and cotton wool
manufacts.. !

Well, not having a machismo problem, I prefer do-gooders to
do-badders, any day. There are far too many of these do-badders going
round interfering with my peaceful way of life.

Plus the odd gallon of blood.

Sell it to H. F-W to make TV programmes about blackpuddings.

It is AMAZING what you can
cut through with a chainsaw.

It is AMAZING what the incompetent can do with allsorsafings,
including zippers on trousers

Precisely. And till one's had the ATB or comparable training, one is
incompetent: that's not an insult, it's just a neutral fact. You and
I were an incompetent drivers till we'd had lessons, too: I hope you
don't think driving licences are an evil government intrusion on the
liberty of the citizen. People don't all know intuitively which side
to start a cut, or when the saw's dangerously blunt, or when the
chain's worked loose, or how to strip the machine down and do a
service.

I was self-taught when it came to zippers. Fortunately, the first
and -- so far -- last error didn't leave a scar!

Alternatively, you could go to an agricultural merchant or GOOD
garden centre, and buy some hand tools (shears, a billhook and/or
machete, a sickle (not a grass hook), a hand axe

Mon dieu, u canna be serious ! u can remove a finger, or hand ,
with
one of they ! (Or, if ingenious some other part of one's anatomy)
[...]

Yes; but they stop cutting after the first bite, and stop moving when
they hit the ground.

--
Mike.