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I really have to learn some basic metalworking skills...
 

oldwheels

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Ragwort growing on my local fields.
Good for the Zinnerbarb moth and their caterpillars.
Supposed to be poisonous to horses and I think cattle. Called Stinking Billy in Scotland because it was introduced apparently by William of Orange to cause damage to natives livestock.
Don’t know if it still applies but landowners were supposed to kill it off in the recent past.
 
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