Bring your gon out here, we can fill it for you...
Talk about the stuff hitting the fan!
ROAR
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Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Well, when the Topic is modeling "Big Piles of Manure" WHY would THIS group drift from it??
Precisely!! If there's any topic that won't suffer from topic drift, it's this one.
And just to keep it (sort of) on topic, let me tell you about the trip home from an operating session last night. Going and coming, I have to pass Castroville, the self-proclaimed "artichoke capital of the world". I hadn't noticed anything on the way out, but the return trip was another matter altogether. Between the power plant at Moss Landing and the intersection of CA 1 and CA 156, I began to notice what was, in the beginning, a subtle tactical probe on my nose that rapidly turned into an all-out frontal assault. To quote the late Eric Lanal, in his pungent essay in RMC entitled "The Tunnel Through Mt. Nasty" http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/54472.aspx , the bouquet wafting through the air was "redolent of other than violets".
I'm not sure why the aroma was noticeable on the way home, but it could have been that there was a rain shower between the outbound and return journeys that refreshed the scent and gave it renewed power. There used to be a line of products called "Olfactory Airs" and one of those products was the aroma of manure. I think they went out of business years ago, but if one could somehow chemically simulate the subtle bouquet that did a D-Day number on my nose last night, I'm sure one could make a small fortune bottling it and selling it to those who model the transport of manure. The only caveat here is that to make a small fortune in this business, it would be advisable to initiate production having the advantage of having a large fortune.
Andre
I'm sorry, but I don't see any egregious wandering off topic, and the few anecdotal asides help to keep the topic flowing and interesting. Who the heck has a conversation that doesn't wander a little bit?
Wayne
A good manure spreader salesman never stands behind his product!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Have fun,
Richard
cowman A good manure spreader salesman never stands behind his product!
Ouch. That one stinks almost as much as the 1:1 prototype.
Seriously, as long as the color is right (straight manure or manure covered with straw), it really doesn't matter. Even in the larger scales, you're not going to be able to see the straw/undigested grass/etc.
Eventually rail shipment was embargoed due to spontaneous combustion.
Yup. All those bacteria gorging on all those nutrients create a lot of heat. If you've ever driven by a large pile of manure on a cold damp day, what you'll see is what Drew Carey once characterized as "a steaming pile of good news". https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-3143839-stock-footage-steaming-pile-of-horse-manure.html
True, horse manure doesn't smell as much early on, but once it has started to heat and gets some added moisture, it can be quite noticable. More likely to combust due to lower moisture content.
Do you have a dog? Depending on the dogs size, the dog turds should fit the gondola just right. And you would be getting a fresh batch every day for each of your operating sessions.
Jeff,
I got some real manure I could send you, don't think it would work to well.
cowjock
Do not feel like putting some old, dried, locally sourced Cat Poo into the junk coffee grinder.
Will stick with ground foam plus diluted latex paint.
After reading the last few posts I wonder if this was what Steven meant by staying on topic? Oh ya, this is the weekend and he is off so go for it! Come Monday I predict the thread will be locked, that is unless there are more posts actually related to the OP's question.
Its amazing how anything scatocological draws so much interest!
Please understand I'm not being critical of the comments. Quite the contrary, I think they are funny. Disgusting perhaps, but none the less funny.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!