New German Plough Gauge

[Leela Valley Leather]

Thank you,

no unfortunately it does not always work out cheaper in the end. We must pay tax on all goods with a customs value (goods included shipping/ handling on the Norwegian border) more than 200 NOK ( 36 US$). In addition we must pay the postal service to declare the goods for us, its a minimum fee about 100 to 150 NOK. This brush alone would have been tax-free. However, I do not have to buy much before I pay extra tax on it. I have to pick it up myself on the post office too, because they alway claims your mailbox is full or the packet to big.

When this is the same story with almost everything I need for my leather work, then I am easily tired of it. They came up with this rule to protect the Norwegian marked against cheap Internet shopping/ shopping in our neighbor countries. Especially the food trade, most Norwegians go to Sweden to shop to a third of our prices. The government want to keep Norwegian farms even when they cannot compete with foreign. They also tell us foreign food is dangerous, especially meat. The problem is that it is the other way around. And in my case where they want to protect goods who do not exist here, all the tings I want to buy do not exist here. Soon I will have my own shell in the post office, I am there nearly everyday.

Thats why I want the dealers to step up to their responsibility. If I was a producer and somebody want to sell my stuff they had to sell it all, not only the the goods that suited them the most. This is something I do not like about Norway, others things are very good here and makes it worth living here.

Thanks

Tor

Holy crap! I now have a new definition for the term "protectionist"!

OK It's an "out there" suggestion, but is it feasible to be come a distributor/reseller for the items you most want and are not available? (was once a distributor for Sennheiser office communications products as there were no local sources)

[Trox]

Holy crap! I now have a new definition for the term "protectionist"!

OK It's an "out there" suggestion, but is it feasible to be come a distributor/reseller for the items you most want and are not available? (was once a distributor for Sennheiser office communications products as there were no local sources)

That is the right term. We are outside the European union. However, inside it with one leg because we need to sell our oil and fish to them. Right now it seems like our policy has kept us out of trouble, the economy crises never hit us and we are one of richest countries in the world (if not the richest). Now a lot of other Europeans want to come here for work. Nobody want to be a craftsman any more, everyone want to sit in front of a PC. Immigrant from eastern Europe do the manual labor... you can see where it all going to end. The shop only carries goods the gray middle class "Ola Norman" wants. In my eyes we are getting poorer this way. Its a good thing that the currency is strong, even when they devalues it all the time to ensure customers for the oil. When the world do not need gas and oil anymore, we are done. Thanks for the suggestion, I do not have the extra energy to take on more work. I guess I have to keep on feeding the customs and postal service.

[oldtimer]

Tor, many from your eastern neighbour country also does your labor ! :-)

Those wealthy norwegians! ;-)

/ ha det / Knut

[Trox]

Tor, many from your eastern neighbour country also does your labor ! :-)

Those wealthy norwegians! ;-)

/ ha det / Knut

Hei Knut, yes they do. The wealth is for the people who works with oil, mostly people from the western parts of Norway.We have poor people here too. General, with economical growth it rains on everybody. 30 to 40 years ago it was Sweden who had the money. I am afraid whats going to happen when we cannot use more oil, Norway have not prepared them self for this.

[oldtimer]

Hei Knut, yes they do. The wealth is for the people who works with oil, mostly people from the western parts of Norway.We have poor people here too. General, with economical growth it rains on everybody. 30 to 40 years ago it was Sweden who had the money. I am afraid whats going to happen when we cannot use more oil, Norway have not prepared them self for this.

I spent a night at a hotel in Norway in august, and paying the bill felt like being robbed in the streeet, with the exception that I could keep my smartphone! hahaha

[Trox]

I spent a night at a hotel in Norway in august, and paying the bill felt like being robbed in the streeet, with the exception that I could keep my smartphone! hahaha

Yes Knut, the prices are criminally high. I cannot afford to stay in hotels here, I use my lavvo tent or rent a cabin. I mostly go on fishing trips anyway and in the summer time. If I go anywhere in the winter time my bearing is south to south east, ha ha.

[compound]

Hi all

I have two several tools-we say strap cutters. one 10 and next is 15cm. One is equipped with "table adapter" and wedge but this adapter is suitable for both tools even from different producers

I think that i know wedge purpose.

My english isn´t good, so i hope my pics provide more iformations

Martin

Edited February 27, 2013 by compound

[bruce johnson]

Martin,

Thank you, NOW that makes sense! And now one other question. Who is the maker of the plough gauge with the tassle looking logo on the bar? I have or had one and don't know.

Thank you,

Bruce

[Trox]

Thank you Martin, Of course thats the purpose. Who makes your ploughs, strap cutters? I do not recognize any of the makers stamps.

In advance thanks

Tor

[compound]

There is nothing to thank. Marks on my tools also do not know.

Tassel brand is still on another old tool - round knife , rein rounder and oval puncher. Therefore I think that it was a manufacturer with great production. Another brand-Horseshoe with star-is only on this tool. I asked my colleague from the University of Tomas Bata. He is an expert on the history of saddlery and leather work and waiting for an answer.

Martin