I think it's something to do with being a forester
Well, obviously the chainsaw is. I meant more the ability to cause hideous injury with total oblivion to pain.

The ex-Mr Rakky is a forester. He once, while staking out holes for some fencing on some kind of Scottish Forestry trust land, smacked a six foot metal pole straight through a power line. The resulting explosion luckily blew his hands clear of the pole (while still attached to his body), but also sent him a good 10 feet across the ground. It also took out the power supply to the whole of the south pentlands area for a while. he just got up, dusted himself down, had a cheese sarnie and carried on.

To be fair, scottish power had provided him with a map of where the cables were, which was wrong, so he can't be entirely blamed!

*clicks*
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 14:28, Reply)