I managed to (temporarily) break my bandsaw this week.
I was using it to sharpen garden stakes when a tiny wedge of scrap got itself jammed between the blade and the guides. Instantly halted the blade, which in turn stretched the tyre on the drive wheel.
New tyres are easy to get, fortunately.
![Cuffay spent the rest of his life in Tasmania. Before his arrival, his name was well-known to many Australians, because a number of reports on his trial in British newspapers were reprinted in the Australian press. When he landed on 29 November 1849, his arrival was reported in several newspapers, including The Courier in Hobart.[22]
Though he was pardoned three years after his conviction, Cuffay elected to stay in Tasmania, working as a tailor and involving himself in local politics. In 1851, Cuffay was involved in a "public meeting of the free trade unions", to further the aims of the Anti-Transportation League, and to stop the use of convict labour in public works. Cuffay campaigned against the Master and Servant Act in England, and continued that activism in Australia.[23]
In the early 1850s, Mary Cuffee applied for financing to enable her to travel to Tasmania, and join her husband, which she did in 1853.[24]
Cuffay's transportation to Australia did not end his political activity. He continued to organise and agitate for democratic rights in Tasmania.[25]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cxoluysu6i76gjnz6364kabn/bafkreibowxnaf2qzhjahs6p4w3epxgwfwn2m4tfxzbn7ct5vrvixyno4gm)
