Has anyone found a use for crushed pecan shells in scenery?
Seems I have a lot available from this fall’s crop. Seems a shame to discard.
Hey ya might want to save them and maybe give WS a run at the scenery side of the hobby! I would just toss them if I were you… Kevin
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Wash them off, grind up in a coffee grinder to a number of sizes, and color with Rit dye similar to the old saw dust method for ground cover.
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Grind to a fine consistancy, mix with matte medium or plaster and use as a filler for molding compound.
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Mix with charcoal, place in an old tomato can with mesh on the bottom, tape a hose on the top and make a home made post apocalyptic gas mask…
Ground to the proper size they might substitute for walnut shells for light weight balast or gondola loads.
Geohan.
I would load them in an open-topped gondola car and route them to a plant very clearly labeled “XYZ PECAN SHELL PROCESSING PLANT #1”. Now if you really have a lot of pecan shells you could run these in 100 car long unit trains.
You could crush them, paint them, and use them as scrap metal loads…
I like no. 3; may be useful after eating too many pecan pies.
I may have that many if I ever get all of them shelled. Quite an unusually large harvest this year. Problem is I don’t have 100 car long unit trains nor space for them. But I like the way you think…I think.
I might just see what I can do with them; maybe eventually have something worth showing, maybe not.
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