[SEL] Welsh pithead

[Bruce Younger]

>http://quercus.livejournal.com/122977.html
<http://quercus.livejournal.com/122977.html> 

>Photo blogging of a walk around a Welsh Valleys pithead and an

>unrestored beam engine.

>Dave Croft

 

Thanks, Dave - great pictures. Enjoyed the stonework and what we saw of
the engine; who's going to free up that 30" diameter piston?

The "Larch Woodlands" - last shot, I believe - illustrates a tree very
different from what is known as larch on this side of the pond.  Our
larch is also known as bois d'arc (bo-dark), horse apple, hedge apple,
and osage orange.  It appears the usage of "larch" stateside may be
colloquial and local.

European larch:  http://www.2020site.org/trees/larch.html

North American larch:  http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/54097/

The wood is orange in color, incredibly hard and long-lived, difficult
to work, and burns very hot. In short, sounds ideal for engine trucks!

Bruce Younger 

05G HHC 313 RR Bn 3/67-4/68 

Lenexa, KS 

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