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| SwarfnStuff:
--- Quote ---Your shed must be one of the lucky ones. Each one I have visited has been overlorded by the Insurance co's and OH&S Nazi's :Doh: agree teach those who wish to use the equipment and do things but not waste 6 months with classes and not go near anything. I have found a number of forums great this one moved to the top of my list a while ago. --- End quote --- Yes Ginger this is a great forum. :mmr: As to "my shed" Perhaps I gave the wrong impression. I am not involved in the Mens Shed movement but some of the chaps in my model engineering club are, so my information comes from them. I guess, since most Mens Sheds have machinery for members to use there must be some OH&S but as you said some people try to be the overlord. Our model engineering group does not have communal machinery so the OH&S bogies don't get a look in. As for the overlords, our club constitution limits office bearers to a maximum 3 of years then they have to step down. :hammer: A bit like our government for which we must vote tomorrow. :bang: John B |
| Jo:
--- Quote from: JD on November 26, 2014, 06:15:44 PM ---about this movement and it does work plus no women are involved :thumbup: :clap: :med: --- End quote --- No problem: us women have our own sheds full of lathes and mills to make swarf in :dremel: Jo |
| awemawson:
Been trying to get my other half involved in the workshop for years but with no joy so far, other than I did actually get her into the woodwork shop last week to turn a new handle for her spade which she'd broken. |
| mattinker:
I think the idea is great, but, I was disappointed in the film as it kept saying the same thing and didn't show men in sheds doing anything! The men they showed really made it look as though they were babysitting old men! To show men doing things in sheds would have been far more to the point! Regards, Matthew. |
| S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: Ginger Nut on November 27, 2014, 09:44:00 PM ---Insurance co's and OH&S Nazi's --- End quote --- Yeah that's something I was wondering about when watching the video and reading about the sheds. I tried get involved in volunteering stuff in the past (selfishly, I just wanted to use the big machine tools!) and while there were alot of cool people there happy to let me have a go and get involved, there were a few boss types patrolling the place making sure nobody had too much fun at the expense of safety. I was lucky at a certain local railway museum since I joined up when the boss was away on holiday and had a fantastic time. But once he came back... It's funny because he still let me climb about the front of a moving locomotive (as it was passing along a gorge) to reach the other side for drive-by pruning, because they were insured in the event that i'd slip off and get crushed. |
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