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Or I could try and be helpful! Just had a look in Collins' Tree Guide (Johnson and Moore); they give Rauli as a common name for N. nervosa for which N. procera is a synonym. The leaves match - to 9cm - (alternate; blunt toothing distinguishes from hornbeam) and bark has long vertical plates. Happy days Yourn

Leaf it out! S'ornbeam I tell ya.

Yep. If the arctic melts the cold melt-water will push the gulf stream too far to the south to reach us and it is only the warm waters of the gulf stream that keep us warm in winter. Remember we are as far north as Newfoundland and Labrador; it is only the warmth of Gulf stream that gives us such mild winters and saves us from harsh Canadian-like winters. Witness when we have the occasional 'continental' winter come in from the East due to changing, temporary pressure systems: even with the gulf stream they are bitter cold. This is what we/our children can/could look forward to without the heated swimming pool of the gulf stream that the British Isles swims in.

No no no; Hornbeam, hornbeam for sure; definitely hornbeam. It's always hornbeam.

Excellent advice. The traditional english breakfast and a woody is a prolific killer.

Perhaps, because of all the disinformation put about, he was not able to use glyphosate, but had to use something harmfull. Er ... a feed and weed wouldn't be glyphosate would it??? Nearly got me there; well done

Here y'go fungus fans; found this on recently dead ancient oak: thought it might be of interest.

In this instance I use 'safe' as a shorthand for 'glyphosate is harmless to humans'

That glyphosate is carcinogenic, in this instance, was decided by a jury; which is a bad way to decide if something is carcinogenic. Coffee falls under the same category. It is, essentially, safe.

Yergo Did a google picture search on A. constricta which shows the pods not right - A.constricta pods being long and thin - it did however lead me to A. farnesiana (see linky) which is as good as identical but with pods as per the pic in the OP. Team effort!

Have a word with bmp01, see if you can borrow the electronic device he uses for zapping bats

Jonsered Service Locator Anywhere but west country by the look of it; unless by 'west country' yer man meant 'west of suffolk' Happy Days Yourn

Can only offer a single data-point m'afraid. Dickie Barker at Grayswood* was Jonsered. *Nr. Haslemere, S.W.Surrey.

they're gooder than good steve, they're excellent saws </chrismorris>

Ah! o.k. ta. I guess you just got to hope it never needs doing huh? To change belt remove steering column; to remove steering column remove engine. 'Sorry boss, cat, worms, vet; laters'. The mended tractor -mtd- has a slightly different arrangement: the steering mech is higher up and the belt goes underneath.

So back to the engine swap. Donor is a Hayter Heritage. After removing the engine I noticed this. Loop in front goes round crank-shaft pulley. All I can say is, "I'm glad I'm not replacing that drive belt". I mean, what sick mind thought of that? In other news, I can confirm rust on the fly-wheel doesn't matter*: bolted it to the chassis and jump started it. Him went chugger chugger vroom chugger! Very Happy Days Yourn *Does cause f loads of thick blue smoke to belch out the zorst on start up though

but as for the op, thers an old saying that I just made up: if you take a knife to a fist-fight be prepared to get stabbed to death. However you best hope with the air pistol is that the assailants will just laugh themselves to death.

1642 as said ...and 1688; that was pretty successful - and longer lasting, still living with the result of that one: gave us our constitutional monarchy, head of state a mere ornament.

"Experts have debunked that theory, though, saying that rust has no impact whatsoever on a magnetic field" A trusted source revealed recently

hi htb, thanks for that, but tis a field job not in a workshop and anyway don't have an impact gun cordless or otherwise. Starter motor is flimsy! But has given me the idea of wrapping a canvas belt around the fly and overlapping it back to work on the principle of an oil filter wrench which might work

Hey ho. As it says on the label, I'm swapping over an engine on a tractor mower both B&S one 11hp tother 13 but it's just a bit different to what I've met before so I need a bit of mind setting to rest please. Firstly does surface rust on the magneto rim matter? It's been stood outside and being iron has heavy surface rust. Should I clean this up with fine sand/emery-paper or does that make it worse? (grit in the works) Will it 'self-clean' with use? Is the magnetism not bothered by rust so don't worry? Also, I'm intrigued. Am I missing a trick? How do you chock one of these engines in order to remove (say) the fly-wheel nut? On the old engine that suffered a catastrophic internal disassembly I was able to remove the crank-shaft pully nut because the crankase was full of garbage and locked up easy. But on the new one, nothing to lock up! Normally I'd bung a load of rope down the spark-plug hole but these are L-Head? Flathead? Side-valve? what's the correct term for these? They have the plug in a small chamber offset from the piston and you can't bung em up. In the past on a smaller tecumseh, when I've had the head cover off anyway, I've simply taken it off again, slipped in a 22mm socket, back on, tighten up, flywheel off but on this briggs thers so much heat shielding and faffing I couldn't be doing with it. Again the old engine appeared to have a plastic ring gear (for the starter motor) and I thought this would be the same and that I couldn't sprag it; but when I took the cover off. lo! twas metal, so spragged the ring gear and the crankshaft pulley bolt slipped undone as if it was only done up yesterday; so bit of a result. But, just for future reference, how DO you chock it up for taking off the flywheel nut? And lastly, between the engine and the crank-shaft pully-shaft there is a bush/thrust bearing/spacer. One side is flat one side is concaved. Unfortunately it fell off and rolled away during the dismantle. Any idea which side is up? Thanks in anticipation Yourn

Mate! Bats are protected. You're not meant to do that.

Top post; enjoyed that.

Tother one tent it? Of the two likely candidates, Taxoddium distichium/ swamp/bald cypress has alternate foliage and Metasequoia glyptostrobus / dawn redwood has opposite foliage. I think. But juvenile foliage may be aberrant. Pologies for spellig and not botherin to look it up; I'm avin m'tea. Happy Days Yourn

Coupla paracetamol, yerl be fine. Other opinions may differ...