In response to he who asked where to get tree flakes (ho scale leaves?) and the answer give by MR...
The LION has his own prescription...
1) Go out of the back door and take a few leaves off of the nearest tree.
2) Bake them in an oven at about 200 degrees until dry.
3) Put them in the food processor and spin them down until they are about the size you want.
4) If colored leaves you want wait another week or two before collecting them.
--> Disclaimer: I have never tried this, but LIONS like to try their own ideas first. After all the cat litter ballast worked out just fine.
ROAR
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I have used Heki leaf flakes in the past.
They look good in real life, but I was not impressed with how they looked in photographs.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I have collected lots of different leaves in the past and let them get brittle dry and then it was into the blender. It made beautiful ground cover.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Noch Leaf (flakes) flocking is excellent.
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
I guess I'm going to have to find an inexpensive blender to put into service in the train room, er, basement. I don't think using the kitchen one is a good idea. I'm not young, anymore. I used to clean car parts in the dishwasher It worked great, but it sure didn't make the little lady happy.
Marlon
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Marion,
I bought a flea market/yard sale blender for hobby use. It got "borrowed" by the kitchen operator. Not sure if I can get it back or not when I need it.
Have fun,
Richard
I seem to remember Ken Patterson did a video on leaves, adding water to the leaves in the blender.
Starts at 2:19
Warning Ken shapes his extruded foam with a chain saw. His tolerance for mess may not be your tolerance.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Lion!, ..You are a Trip
But that's why I've always liked you
TF
Medina1128I don't think using the kitchen one is a good idea.
It's all star stuff. If it is vegatables or leaves, what's the diff?
BigDaddyWarning Ken shapes his extruded foam with a chain saw.
That seems like a terrible idea. That would get bar oil all over everything, and I am sure that would attack the foam.
Medina1128 I guess I'm going to have to find an inexpensive blender to put into service in the train room, er, basement. I don't think using the kitchen one is a good idea. I'm not young, anymore. I used to clean car parts in the dishwasher It worked great, but it sure didn't make the little lady happy.
What the heck! She puts spiniuch leaves in there doesn't she. Lettusce and cabbage...
Carrats and onions.
It is just another vegitable!
And then she wonders why it doesn't work anymore while your unfastening the clamp on the discharge hose, Knee Deep in the water