Glenn Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 All you really is two lumps for eyes on your snowman. (And two eyes made out of coal) ok, and some snow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 We tend to stack up large tumbleweeds out here as snow is a rare item... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Thomas- We always enjoy the tumbleweed snowmen when we are in Albuquerque visiting the relatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Found in my stocking a few years ago....I felt the love: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donniev Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 5 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: We tend to stack up large tumbleweeds out here as snow is a rare item... Can't say that I've ever seen one in real life, but I do live in Nebraska, so.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Passed a 5' diameter tumbleweed caught in a fence the other day would make a good start...I just don't want to scatter it's seeds in *my* yard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Yep Thomas, had a few green mumbling mumbleweeds on a small strip by the road - the biggest one weighed 30#. Stuffed a two cubic yard dumpster lickity-split. Best admired in "someone else's yard", you bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 NO Honey NO!!! Don't You Eat That Yellow Coal!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Actually my Father was one a Manufacturing Engineering Professor down here and as a class project they were once tasked with how to deal with tumbleweeds along the highways. The current methodology was to have folks pitch fork them into dump trucks and then drive them to a dump. Very inefficient as loading a truck "full" could be done in 5 minutes and then an hour drive to the dump and another back. They came up with basically a hammer mill that ran off the dumptruck's hydraulics. Now you could pitchfork tumbleweeds into the feeder all day an only need to make at most 2 trips to the dump... with *full* loads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Yup Thomas, that's the trick - neat that your father had his hand in the stickers, if you will. Almost would have to have a very long handle on that fork with a small counterweight to pitch those mumbleweeds all day . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 He had an interesting career, AT&T Bell Labs, NASA, AT&T joint venture in Europe, Cellular Systems, and then the Manufacturing Engineering Prof when he retired. Not a "theoretical Prof" he came at it after working in and then managing factories all over the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I don't understand why the hatred of tumbleweeds. They get to live a casual life in quiet contemplation and then end it by roaming the world in the wind spreading their seed at the end of their lives. Isn't that how most of us wish we could have done it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Oh Lou, it is hard to go against the grain of your waxing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcostello Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I must have been bad last year Santa showed Me My coal AFTER He burnt it up. Yep ashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 I would rather have clinkers and ashes than that awful nasty coal <wink>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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