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About two years ago I built a pair of Larch Picnic tables & gifted them to the village for the park down by the Vinney burn.
This is one of them.


A few weeks ago there was a flood & one of the tables got washed downstream & jammed against a bridge. The weight of the water broke the table. Now that I can live with, but when I saw what they had done with the table today I was a bit disappointed ( no I was flaming mad).

This is how they left the table.


Met one of the committee members that looks after the park & told her never to ask me to do anything for them again as they clearly have no respect for my gift.

Am I wrong?
 
Probably yes, the person who chucked it like that most likely didn't know any better and the 'committee' most likely didn't know at all.

If you ever do anything like that for them again, carve 'in memory of' someone and it may get better treatment.
 
ok, i'm confused - the table was initially broken by the flood and they moved the already broken table out of the way of the bridge, right ?

if so, i dont see an issue. yes your hard work got broken and i can understand your frustration, but it's broken - i would not have expected them to have put a broken piece of external furniture back where it was originally.

if i were you, i would have said "ah, looks like nature took it's toll on one of the tables i made for you - lets talk and come to an agreement about me replacing it for you" and gone from there.
 
looks like it only needs some screws put in it to fix it up, the only broken wood is the section where the seat attaches to the supports (does this make sens to anyone other than me?)

Could probably beinifit from being left somewhere warm and dry if it had been sitting in the water for a while
 
Charlie, I would be incensed too, as it looks to me like it could be simply repaired.
 
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looking at the first pic (before) and at the pic after the flood....can you make me one as good please
 
recrudesce said:
ok, i'm confused - the table was initially broken by the flood and they moved the already broken table out of the way of the bridge, right ?

if so, i dont see an issue. yes your hard work got broken and i can understand your frustration, but it's broken - i would not have expected them to have put a broken piece of external furniture back where it was originally.

if i were you, i would have said "ah, looks like nature took it's toll on one of the tables i made for you - lets talk and come to an agreement about me replacing it for you" and gone from there.
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The table will be easily repaired. What has got me bloody furious is the way the thing has been chucked up against that dyke(wall). There is nothing wrong with the feet of the thing. To me it just shows a total lack of respect or easy come easy go.
 
There seems to be a growing trend of people who have no respect for theirs or other peoples property these days
 
it could have been put there by anyone - clean up team members, members of the public. not specifically the people you made it for.

i think you acted while under the influence of the red mist. there's probably a real good explanation why it's there.
 
wouldn't it have been pulled out and dumped there by whoever pulled it out of the stream who was probably wet and cold and didn't give a **** about a table he thought was broken. If I had waded through a flooded stream to drag out a bench blocking said stream I would probably feel quite violently about said stream.

Just a thought, maybe they were very fond of your nice bench (and it is a lovely bench)
 
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