I've just got back from a few days up in Cumbria. I kept noticing a foul smell on the journeys there and back, that I can only describe as like the odour you get when following a vegetarian to the loo. I'm sure it wasn't muck spreading, as I got a good few whiffs of that as well. It definitely wasn't the car occupants. There always seemed to be a truck around when I smelled it, but then again there always seemed to be truck nearby all the time.
I was wondering if it could be the fuel additive used in diesel trucks (ad blue?). Does it work in the same way as EOLYS in diesel cars, such that it gives it a squirt of the stuff every now and then, or is it fed continuously?
As an aside, has anyone else noticed the stagnant water smell at J14 of the M1?
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If the smell is external the aircon recirculate button isolates the inside of the car from the outside air. Handy if you are behind a smoky or smelly exhaust.
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Smokey? Must have been following a travelling shoes salesmans wagon.
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Unfortunately, by the time you get the smell in a car it's too late to hit the re-circ button. You certainly don't want to trap the smell inside with you.
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Which reminds me, I wonder if the reason Bobby hasn't been around today is that he's been out buying some new shoes? Luck of the draw with Oxfam mind. don't always have your size...
:-)
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>> Luck of the draw with Oxfam mind. don't always have your size...
I've genuinely been out looking for a smart shirt today, but came back empty-handed for exactly this reason :(
Back on topic, muck-spreading seems to be pretty popular these days. A couple of nights ago there was an almighty stench across our whole street at sunset, which must have been caused by a farmer somewhere upwind.
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Sat 10 Sep 11 at 21:11
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Bit harsh, it might have been his dog.
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Dave,
Got a very smart shirt for a wedding for £8.00 from TJ Maxx - bargain...
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>> TK Maxx
That's like proper clothes-shopping... I agree they can have some bargains there but I glaze over after the first hour! The shirt isn't urgent, but I've had a couple of touches in charity shops this year (£50 RRP designer label for £3, good quality Gore-Tex raincoat for £10)so they're always worth a look.
Came away today with a toy lorry for kiddo (75p), a chess/draughts set with board for daughter (75p) and a new set of Trivial Pursuit question cards for £2. Bargain.
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Thats just reminded me of a pleasingly true story. I became friends years ago with a guy in Edinburgh who was severely disabled. Poor chap was wheelchair bound and his condition caused him to have speech difficulties. A wee bit similar to Stephen Hawking in general demeanour. This led some to believe he was a bit dim. On the contrary, he was highly intelligent and his job was designing missle guidance systems and heads up displays for fighter pilots so thick he was most certainly not.
Anyway, it was at the height of the popularity of Trivial Pursuit. My pal used to win money ( quite tidy sums ) on that game by simply buying any new issue of cards and commiting all the correct answers to memory !
Top bloke.
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For shirts go to Charles Tyrwhitt on the net.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the OP's nasty niffs were connected to sewage works near the motorway - best place to put them, away from residential areas mostly. I can think of a few facilities next to major roads offhand - A421 Bedford bypass, A507 at Flitwick, M4 past Reading, A46 north of Leicester. All of them can be a bit rich if the weather's right. ;)
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..., A46 north of Leicester. All of them can be a
>> bit rich if the weather's right. ;)
Think you'll find that smell is Leicester.
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>> ..., A46 north of Leicester. All of them can be a
>> >> bit rich if the weather's right. ;)
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>> Think you'll find that smell is Leicester.
think youll find that smell is wanlip sand pits, im 2 miles from it and it does pen and ink specially this time of year
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>> think youll find that smell is wanlip sand pits,
I had to collect out of East Goscote most days (until the redundancy, anyway) and run back down to Braunstone - I've seen the Wanlip sand and gravel place on the North side of the A46 near the roundabout but the smell seems to be after that in the dip before the next junction. It's so regular I now shut the windows and kill the fan in anticipation.
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Lorries carry all kinds of er..remains from abattoirs, you know which ones to avoid around here, and not to get up close an personal especially on the bike.
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>> I wouldn't be surprised if the OP's nasty niffs were connected to sewage works near
>> the motorway - best place to put them, away from residential areas mostly. I can
>> think of a few facilities next to major roads offhand - A421 Bedford bypass, A507
>> at Flitwick, M4 past Reading, A46 north of Leicester. All of them can be a
>> bit rich if the weather's right. ;)
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A338 going into Bournemouth:-
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/districts/bournemouth/9180419.Water_firm_spending___2m_to_address_Wessex_Way_whiff/
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The trucks you noticed didn't happen to be fairly high sided aluminium tipper style with folding lids did they, often have odd framework and underslung belly tanks, maybe not scrupulously clean but showing evidence of frequent high pressure chemical cleaning?
Offal carrier?...used to drive one, safest vehicle you could drive, 70mph no problem the old bill would disappear in the blink of an eye once they caught a whiff..;)
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>> Offal carrier?...used to drive one, safest vehicle you could drive, 70mph no problem the old
>> bill would disappear in the blink of an eye once they caught a whiff..;)
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Prosper de Mulder I presume? I used to dread getting stuck behind one of their bulk tippers running into Colwick maggot farm. The stench takes ages to clear out of your cab and air fresheners just don't touch it.
The clue is the sign on the back door stating "not for human consumption"; if you spot one of them, best advice is find a layby and wait five minutes rather than stick behind him, specially in warm weather!
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I used to be located in an office above a set of traffic lights. We would see those lorries occasionally. We'd be able to look down into their contents if they were stopped at a red light and watch as it slowly slurped backwards and forwards.
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. We'd be able to look down into their contents if
>> they were stopped at a red light and watch as it slowly slurped backwards and
>> forwards.
That's triggered a memory Tom, those loads should have been sheeted though some fellows might have nipped out at non peak times without one, yes we actually had to physically manhandle a full size sheet onto the tipper body, a knack indeed if you didn't want to end up head first in the stuff.
Anyway one Saturday night whilst proceeding down the balls pond road, one had to stop at the lights outside the pub...a floating (long dead i hasten to add) pig used that opportunity to float to the surface and bob up and down as if peering over the top...the offal would of course swell during the warm weather and what started out 2 feet below the plimsoll line would be nearly over the top in a few hours, it caused quite a reaction from those stood outside enjoying an evening pint.
It wouldn't happen now thank goodness with sealed tanks.
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>>proceeding down the balls pond road<<
What, the one in Hackney, or you got a Balls Pond up in Notts?
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>> What, the one in Hackney,
Thats the one...so i'm told...;)
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>> It wouldn't happen now thank goodness with sealed tanks.
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Pity really. The reaction from the residents of certain parts of modern London might be quite amusing. They wouldn't know whether to steal the lorry or complain that it was insulting their creed.
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You presume correctly HM, good job in it's day mind in those days before limiters, we could get a serious move on without too much worry, and run on log books too..;)
Used to have to drive inside the plant where pig hair and feathers were cooked, the steam would settle on you, get inside your nose and i need say no more.
Not the worse smell i've ever encountered, i once followed an empty propane tanker that the driver must have left valve open after discharging, ended up stopping on the hard shoulder and throwing up, concentrated that is some serious stuff...i did wonder if enough was eventing to ignite.
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Thorpe Interchange for the M3/M25 is a good one. There's a sewage works just up the bank off the Southbound M3 carriageway. It's a delightful place to get stuck in traffic, especially on a hot day.... :-(
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You get this all in glorious High Def on a bike...
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>> Used to have to drive inside the plant where pig hair and feathers were cooked
I used to deliver eggs from a farm with half a million chickens in sheds, the lorries were kept in a yard next to a 20ft skip where all the bird carcasses were burned. Couple that with the ever-present flies and I used to hold my breath for the first 10 minutes' drive every morning :(
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Sat 10 Sep 11 at 21:40
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We used to live in't shoe box at the bottom of't slurry pit tha' knows...
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More like a McDonalds' box in a McFlurry pit....
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Meat processing is a big industry on Anglesey - also industrial scale chicken farms....all over the place....one reason I avoid supermarket meat...squallid...
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>> Meat processing is a big industry on Anglesey - also industrial scale chicken farms....all over
>> the place....one reason I avoid supermarket meat...squallid...
Remember 'Mick the Chick' who was buying old chicken carcasses and dowsing them in bleach to sell to the supermarkets later? Really fowl...
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I regularly travel down the M4 and I have notice a stench when I go past Slough.
Must be a sewage works, I suppose. (Unless it really is true what they say about Slough)
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No, that's just Slough ;-)
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>> No, that's just Slough ;-)
Its the Mars chocolate factory,.
Could tell you some tales about that place!
And the Walls sausage factory in Southall.
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"And the Walls sausage factory in Southall."
Not any more. It went years ago.
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>> No, that's just Slough ;-)
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Makes me think of a variation on the old joke:
"Kiss your girlfriend where it smells . . . . . . . . . take her to Battersea!"
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>> Meat processing is a big industry on Anglesey -
I assume you avoid the local Ruby and Chinky restaurants on the island then?
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In fact the Indians' source their stuff from the big Halal place in Gaerwen - that's a little re-assuring in a way. I haven't had one in ages.....mmmm there's a thought.
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>> I was wondering if it could be the fuel additive used in diesel trucks (ad
>> blue?). Does it work in the same way as EOLYS in diesel cars, such that
>> it gives it a squirt of the stuff every now and then, or is it
>> fed continuously?
Ad blue is now used in some cars...and is based on Urea (pee.)
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Had a neighbour up the road who had a Transit with box body. He used to get condemned meat from somewhere and sell it on.....maybe maggot farms or zoos. It stank and was always covered in flies in Summer but he managed to run a Silver Shadow on the proceeds. Fell asleep in his armchair with a cuppa one sunny afternoon a few years ago and never woke up.....wife found him when she came home......good way to go !
Bought a Willys-Overland-Crossley truck from a guy up in Whitworth. He had an old furniture van, drove it to some mill every week...they filled it to the roof with waste cotton. He drove it less than ten miles to another mill where it was unloaded for him. Made about £200 a week, week in and week out, not bad money 40ish years ago ! Scruffy git though, home was foul !
Ted
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I lived in Trowbridge many years ago when the Bowyers sausage factory and Ushers brewery were in full production. By memory the pigs were delivered on a Monday and the squealing could be heard all over the town, followed by the sort of smell that several hundred pig carcasses being processed can produce. The smell from the brewery came was thoroughly pleasant by comparison but never managed to drown out the dead pigs.
The other smell was from the cellophane works in Bridgwater - it was enough to make me feel slightly nauseous occasionally even on the M5 rather than going through town. How the local residents managed to put up with I don't know - their noses must have been cauterised.
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Yesterday (warm, and humid here) I drove several miles on various dirt (mud) farm tracks. On getting home I put the car in the garage. Anyone guess what my garage smelt like this morning? :-(
The car got a serious pressure washing this morning, and then the driveway!
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Ah Trowbridge - the county town of Wiltshire. Just down the road from us.
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Foul smells on major roads - Old Navy
