Tape measure - Why the imperial???

[JMC Landscapes]

Imperial has it's place - it's easy to refer to timber in 4 by 2 , 6 by 2 etc but personally i find metric easier to get your head around.

Mick try a metre long steel rule if you haven't got one. You can flip it to get metric on the correct side. Great for accurate marking up.

[seanandruby]

i think it's for the wife because i have to convert everything into metric for her :laugh: tapes last five minutes in shingle when laying drains so i go for the cheap five fingered discount when in b&q :;):

[Carberry]

Imperial has it's place - it's easy to refer to timber in 4 by 2 , 6 by 2 etc but personally i find metric easier to get your head around.

Mick try a metre long steel rule if you haven't got one. You can flip it to get metric on the correct side. Great for accurate marking up.

to complicate things even further they don't even measure 4 by 2 or 6 by 2 though, that's the rough measurement before they are dressed so you end up with something a bit smaller like 90mm x 45mm.

[mickavalon]

I only buy cheap tapes as well, they last as long as the expensive ones and still give the same measure. Working outside knacks up all tools eventually, especially our climate. I'm looking at buying a load of new power tools but damned if I'm going for the top end stuff, the new fat max range is on offer at Homebase at the moment, £99.00 for a 18v li-on driver/hammer drill, looking pretty decent quality and I think they're made by Black and Decker who also make De-walt.
I know a lot of material is still in imperial, but I still work in metric. I do still obviously use miles for longer distance and I'm not against the existence of imperial measure, but I never use it, and nor do many builders I know. I probably look at the site LLL and still buy me cheap tapes anyway. I just like moaning.









































































:p

[mickavalon]

Oops!!

[lutonlagerlout]

a brummie that likes moaning????

never!!

since day 1 on site mill has been installed in me

everything is mill, 782 ,1250,3476
mill is king

LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

we are both

drainage always in inches been working on 3 10" pipes next to each other today all with holes in them fun wet job, factory ran new cables and spiked the old ones jus to be on the save side, these are like 3" electric cables of i mean 75mm

[haggistini]

I need 568ml of something...!

[Dave_L]

I need 568ml of something...!

Haha top answer Haggi :p :p

[mickavalon]

Haggi mate, a pints will always be a pint regardless.
LLL, I have chosen not to respond to that racsist slur and can only put it down to media stereotyping, but your details have been passed on to the BDL and I believe you will get a visit, as soon as they can get the Allegro started, failing that the Naval branch are setting of via the canal, but it could take a while.

[lutonlagerlout]

my bro and his lad live in brum Mick
longbridge
its hilarious for my ears when i go up and listen to the accents
got some great mates from the west country and they are funny as feck
LLL

[mickavalon]

There are a load of variances to the accent as well, depending on which part of Brum you live, suppose same as most big cities, but outsiders don't notice it. Mind you I live bordering the Black country, and their accents something again. They still use Thee and Thy.
It is amazing that such a small Island geographically has managed to produce so many dialects. I was up in Skye and Inverness over Easter, and some of the locals dialect sounded more like North Welsh than stereotype Scottish.
Not sure about you Luton lots accent, sort of cockney Farmers ain't it.

[lutonlagerlout]

to the untrained ear i sound like a cockney
but i was in SE london tonight and they spotted me straightaway as a carrot cruncher
personally i am not keen on the london accent and the brummie accent
no disrespect,just dont do it for me
i like the lilt of the lancashire accent and maybe some irish accents (not donegal)
haha
LOL
LLL

[mickg]

i like the lilt of the Lancashire accent
yeah we are the same

I got told yesterday that i sound like Peter Kay, not heard that one before ???

[mickavalon]

Personally I love all regional accents, both UK and Ireland, apart from modern Ali G style, any accent spoken by thicko's and middle class English, Tory style. The one accent I dread is the manc's, only because it's usually some donut trying to sell me something I don't want over the phone. How come they're always from either Manchester or Stoke?