Shear Pins have a specific function and are made a precise way. Not only shoud you not use a plain vanilla bolt, but you should use shear pins specific to your model of snow thrower. They protect your snow thrower and only cost 50 cents each or so. Like the previous guy said, buy a few extras for spare. Its a questions of when, not if you will need them. Pleanty of places to save money in this world, this is not one of them. Yes, when they break, part of it can be left in the shaft. Just take an appropriate size center punch and bang it out. Simple.

That is because of how the links work there. When you go to HMF and click on My HMF, you are redirected to your log-ed in page on HMF. It is the same generic link to every member and if you add that link to the forum, it will always redirect to your own page (or any other members own page, depends on who is clicking it). That's the link that looks like this: http://helpmefind.com/gardening/guest.php?tab=1 Now if you want to link to your garden so that other people see your garden, you have to log out, go to HMF member, Search your nick and then you will get the different link, that looks like: http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=99.377331 - that's unique member link. It's not very comfy way to link to the profile, and I could not figure the other way quickly, so searching member name is a bit easier imho. But maybe someone who had more coffee than me and does not have a whining baby and a whining cat, can figure that one out better. :P

Most wholesalers won't sell to individual accounts for many reasons, one of them being loyalty to the customers they supply on the wholesale level because it turns them into competitors. Secondly, it's the onsie/twosie issue. Wholesale accounts are usually non-taxable since they are for resale or for agricultural purposes. If you have a large number of accounts that are not subjected to sales taxes, making a few onsie/twosie retail sales isn't worth the acrobatics of what it takes to remit the taxes, so they don't do the sale. Your best bet is if you deal with a reputable independent local nursery and ask them when they do their orders to check their suppliers for that particular tree and if they don't have minimums on it order it for you. Do it early and I mean early if you want it for next spring. My orders were always in by August the year prior and you'd already be too late. I once succumbed to planting a novelty Bradford. I was blessed to have the power company come by in their crews and take it out before it ever reached maturity. Their crew chief was really savvy last year and when I mentioned the word Bradford, and how close it was to the lines he obliged. We're dealing with the seedlings from it now and having round-up parties. I don't know if I'd enable you to find one or not. ;-)

The Nordman Seedless Nagami kumquat I don't have any bud wood for so that won't be coming out this spring/summer. The other types and allot others should have been out but I'm way behind on my budding here since I can't find any help that truly knows how to do things. I have over 10,000 rootstock that will be getting budded and should be ready as liners this summer