Prince William rolled up his sleeves as he was put to work during a visit to a community centre on Thursday. The Duke of Wales used a hand drill to chop wood as he met with organisations who are tackling rural isolation and loneliness. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Very nice to see you. This is your men's shed, right?
00:06Yes, yes, yes.
00:07Fantastic.
00:08This is the building we came for.
00:10Every men's shed smells of carpentry.
00:12Absolutely.
00:13You can smell the carpentry.
00:14Yes, yes, yes.
00:15These are some of the things that we do.
00:16These are some of the things that we do, yes.
00:17Some of the larger things that we do.
00:18Some of the smaller things that surround the corner here.
00:21Right.
00:22But we're going for a cup of tea.
00:24Fantastic, yes.
00:25Yes, OK.
00:26After you, Finn.
00:27After you.
00:29Yeah, yeah, Nathan's right.
00:31There's two John's in the front, I know that.
00:35And have you all been coming to Men's Shed for quite a while?
00:38I've been seven years.
00:40Seven years?
00:41Seven years.
00:42It was five years in Arbroath, Men's Shed, and then I came here.
00:46This is a better shed.
00:47A better shed, is it?
00:48It's much friendlier.
00:49OK.
00:50Nicer atmosphere.
00:51So I've been here two years, the total of two years.
00:54OK.
00:56Saw off the ground, sort of started.
00:58Not quite, no.
01:04He's occupational.
01:21You're looking good, David.
01:22Yeah.
01:23Looking strong.
01:25And have you only been here a few times?
01:27About four times.
01:29Yeah, yeah.
01:30Do you like building stuff?
01:31Building tables, making things?
01:35Oh, OK.
01:36Yeah, good.
01:41You're looking good.
01:42You feeling strong?
01:43Yeah.
01:44It takes a while, doesn't it?
01:45It does.
01:54Once.
01:55Once?
01:56Yeah.
01:57Was it for me?
01:58Yeah.
01:59Yeah.
02:00This is for you, David.
02:01You've come up quite a few times?
02:02Yeah, yeah.
02:03Good.
02:04I think that the Men's Shed gives an opportunity to let you come out and engage with people
02:06and get back to people.
02:08It's important to stay connected.
02:10Yeah, yeah.
02:11Doing stuff and seeing people and being there.
02:14And the crew should listen here.
02:16Oh, yeah.
02:17No.
02:25David.
02:26Oh, OK.
02:27You were born in Birmingham?
02:28Yeah.
02:29Right.
02:30Yeah, yeah.
02:31OK.
02:32Whereabouts in Birmingham?
02:33Erm...
02:34Oh, God.
02:35Erm...
02:36Can you do the first wave then?
02:38Erm...
02:40No.
02:41I'm headed a certain way here, David, because you said,
02:43I was born in Birmingham.
02:44You said, I enjoy watching football.
02:45Yeah.
02:46So I'm going to ask you another question, David.
02:48Who do you support?
02:49What football team do you support, David?
02:52Curling.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Erm...
02:55What's the rigour?
02:56Yeah.
02:57OK, yeah.
02:58What football team?
03:00Yeah.
03:01Which football team?
03:03You haven't mentioned it.
03:04All you said here is you enjoy watching football.
03:06Erm...
03:07Do you support a football team, David?
03:09I don't know.
03:10I don't want traps in the Men's Shed.
03:12We'll soon find out.
03:13This is Alec.
03:14Hi, nice to meet you.
03:15And Alec's going to show you how to build a tree hugger.
03:17A tree hugger?
03:18Yeah.
03:19OK, brilliant.
03:20I'm going to put a plate there, if you follow that,
03:22Alec, I'm sure, will help me.
03:23This is like a bit of pizza, Alec.
03:25Here's one I made earlier.
03:26Look at that.
03:27Did you make this one?
03:30It's quite a big bit of kit to make.
03:34Look at that.
03:35OK.
03:37This could take us a while.
03:39Yeah, go on.
03:44Here we go.
03:45Right, Alec, I'm in your hands.
03:48Make sure I don't lose your fingers.
03:54One in there.
03:59OK, are we in the right spots?
04:01Yeah.
04:05I'll try not to take your thumb off my fingers at the same time.
04:18These are for, like, bird boxes, aren't they?
04:22Do you screw them into the tree?
04:24Yeah.
04:37There you go.
04:38Good brute force.
04:39Perfect.
04:42Brilliant.
04:43Is that in?
04:44That's it.
04:45Brilliant.
04:46Brilliant.
04:50Brilliant.
04:55Very good, Boris.
04:56Yeah.
04:57That's when it comes off when it's on the tree, Alec.
04:59That's the problem.
05:00There's a bird nest in it and the whole thing drops off.
05:04I made a quick and easy thing.
05:05Yeah.
05:10Happy that's in?
05:11Yeah.
05:31And then the birds nest in here.
05:33Brilliant.
05:36And then that's it.
05:37Clearing it out.
05:38Brilliant.
05:39You just tie them round the tree and you can screw them in.
05:41Just tie them round the tree.
05:42I'll just show you.
05:43Just for a quick handout.
05:45Thank you very much.
05:46Brilliant.
05:47And it's not falling apart.
05:48And it looks roughly the same.
05:49So I think it's a success.
05:50It's worth it.
05:51It's worth it.
05:52I'm sorry it's not the villa colour.
05:53That's all right.
05:54It's good.
05:55It's close enough.
05:56Close enough.
05:57Close enough.
05:58Thank you very much.
05:59You're welcome.
06:00Right.
06:01First, thank you very much on behalf of our lovely venture.
06:06I feel so privileged.
06:08I really do feel so privileged.
06:10I hope you get on very well.
06:11Lovely Sundays.
06:12Yes.