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| Thread ID: 126160 | 2012-08-11 06:24:00 | Pine Forest Dust | coldfront (15814) | PC World Chat |
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| 1294054 | 2012-08-11 06:24:00 | Every year at this time and one the reasons I moved from Taupo is the amount of yellow polen dust from the Pine Plantations. Not only does it coat everything in a yellow dust it also has a sulphury smell.....wait for it! This year it is being associated by people in many parts of New Zealand as Volcanic dust and gas from Mt Tongariros eruption :rolleyes: So if you can smell something eggy and you have not farted and you find a light dusting of yellow dust ask yourself if you have seen this before and then think how far from a pine plantation you are! I would bet many of the reports of sulphur are from people within 20kms of a large pine plantation? |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1294055 | 2012-08-11 08:37:00 | Just up the driveway from me there is a huge Wattle tree in full bloom. I suspect this is the cause of most of the pollen on our drive at this time of the year. Everything goes yellow. (Does not smell like fart though) LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1294056 | 2012-08-11 08:41:00 | I think we should introduce a new Tax to deal with this problem. | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1294057 | 2012-08-11 08:43:00 | Yes we get the pine pollen dust here every year as will. Nothing to write home about. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1294058 | 2012-08-11 09:27:00 | Get it in Nelson too but not until September. Don't know now that I'm in Antartichurch | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1294059 | 2012-08-11 09:36:00 | I agree with you Trev but I only mentioned this after reading an account from the paranoid skitso posters on Trademe claiming a yellow dust film on a pond and on cars in Wanganui is from Tongariro. Lakewoodlady pine dust does have a bit of a sulphorous smell to it larger the concentration worse it smells under the right enviroment. If you visited a saw mill you will notice it! It struck me tonight all these reports of sulphur fallout in parts of the country from this single event and yest I am pretty much at ground zero and the only smell we get is actually nearer to the volcanoes. Even with the wind now blowing in our direction! The dust is actual grey not yellow. Lot of misunderstanding going around! Actually getting a waft of the sulphur gas nearer to Tongariro actually clears my nose, eruption has done me a favour. |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1294060 | 2012-08-11 09:42:00 | Pine pollen, yes, it does like strikingly like suplhur, even after the rain has washed the bulk of it into the gutter, the residue that remains looks strikingly like sulphur. Good call by the OP. Changing back to the issue of volcanic ash fallout, does anyone know how abrasive the stuff is to a windscreen when the wipers are in use? |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1294061 | 2012-08-11 10:32:00 | very I should think and from what I have heard before | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1294062 | 2012-08-11 11:15:00 | I agree with you Trev but I only mentioned this after reading an account from the paranoid skitso posters on Trademe claiming a yellow dust film on a pond and on cars in Wanganui is from Tongariro. Lakewoodlady pine dust does have a bit of a sulphorous smell to it larger the concentration worse it smells under the right enviroment. If you visited a saw mill you will notice it! It struck me tonight all these reports of sulphur fallout in parts of the country from this single event and yest I am pretty much at ground zero and the only smell we get is actually nearer to the volcanoes. Even with the wind now blowing in our direction! The dust is actual grey not yellow. Lot of misunderstanding going around! Actually getting a waft of the sulphur gas nearer to Tongariro actually clears my nose, eruption has done me a favour. Yes, we get the pine pollen here too, being completely surrounded by pine forest in Taupo. Also can smell Kinleith when wind is from the right direction! Having lived in Ohakune for much of my life, sort out got used to it I guess. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1294063 | 2012-08-11 12:23:00 | Pine pollen, yes, it does like strikingly like suplhur, even after the rain has washed the bulk of it into the gutter, the residue that remains looks strikingly like sulphur. Good call by the OP. Changing back to the issue of volcanic ash fallout, does anyone know how abrasive the stuff is to a windscreen when the wipers are in use? Cheers for that :) How abrasive is it! Can be very abrasive not good for the air intakes and corrosion points either. I was driving through the stuff on Tuesday, ikept fingers well clear of wiper button unless the windscreen was wet, luckily only a short section of road affected. Essentially lots of water to rinse off the worse of it. The ash on Tuesday was not to bad because it was resultant from steam eruption so none of the volcanic glass fragments that cause the real problems. Still was a pain to rinse off the sludge that built up underneath the wheel arches. Actually you got just as much chance scratching your windscreen with grit from roadworks or on a gravel road if you wipe dry. I got my experiance of ash from the 1996 Ruapehu Eruptions that stuff was abrasive was not very good when it got sucked into the carbie either, especially when the accelerator wont release on a corner. Got a respray out of that not just because of ash damage...lol |
coldfront (15814) | ||
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