Todays ride

My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou

On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

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On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:45:57 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

The most usual white dust like stuff applied to fields is crushed
limestone, sometimes called aglime. It is used to neutralize acidic
soil.

--
cheers,

John B.

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 2:38:28 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:45:57 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

The most usual white dust like stuff applied to fields is crushed
limestone, sometimes called aglime. It is used to neutralize acidic
soil.

--
cheers,

John B.

I think you are right.

Lou

writes:

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 2:38:28 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:45:57 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the
obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit
chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On
todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from
behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor
that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white
itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve
opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of
chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it
blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km,
people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

The most usual white dust like stuff applied to fields is crushed
limestone, sometimes called aglime. It is used to neutralize acidic
soil.

--
cheers,

John B.

I think you are right.

Both chalk and limestone are mostly calcium carbonate, CaCO3. Once
ground into powder it would probably take a microscope and more
mineralogy than I have to tell them apart.

On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:02:22 -0400, Radey Shouman
wrote:

writes:

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 2:38:28 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:45:57 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the
obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit
chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On
todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from
behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor
that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white
itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve
opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of
chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it
blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km,
people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

The most usual white dust like stuff applied to fields is crushed
limestone, sometimes called aglime. It is used to neutralize acidic
soil.

--
cheers,

John B.

I think you are right.

Both chalk and limestone are mostly calcium carbonate, CaCO3. Once
ground into powder it would probably take a microscope and more
mineralogy than I have to tell them apart.

According to the Wiki "Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary
carbonate rock, a form of limestone" :-)
--
cheers,

John B.

On 3/31/2020 5:38 PM, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:45:57 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

The most usual white dust like stuff applied to fields is crushed
limestone, sometimes called aglime. It is used to neutralize acidic
soil.

--
cheers,

John B.

Thanks, they use white dust around my home also (Willamette Valley
Oregon), and I've always wondered what it was. Your answer seems
likely, I think the soil is naturally acidic around here.

Mark J.

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 3:44:58 PM UTC-7, Mark J. wrote:
On 3/31/2020 5:38 PM, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:45:57 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass.. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

The most usual white dust like stuff applied to fields is crushed
limestone, sometimes called aglime. It is used to neutralize acidic
soil.

--
cheers,

John B.

Thanks, they use white dust around my home also (Willamette Valley
Oregon), and I've always wondered what it was. Your answer seems
likely, I think the soil is naturally acidic around here.

Mark J.

You'd better be careful and keep those pictures. Frank may want you to prove you have a bicycle.

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 1:46:04 AM UTC+2, AMuzi wrote:
On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

Yeah I think is was. The stuff that you have to put over your lawn in the spring to restore the pH value. But I cleaned my bike right away when I arrived home and put my clothes in the washer and showered of course ;-)


Lou

On 4/1/2020 2:28 AM, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 1:46:04 AM UTC+2, AMuzi wrote:
On 3/31/2020 6:11 PM, wrote:
My cycling holiday to Spain was cancelled of course for the obvious reason but I still have this week off. Although a bit chilly and windy the weather is nice so I can ride bike a lot. On todays ride at a certain point I hear a tractor coming from behind and pulled to the right to let him pass. It was a tractor that had been dumping chalk over the fields all white itself. When he just passed me he went over a bump and the valve opened a bit and suddenly I was riding in a big white cloud of chalk covering my whole black bike and my clothes. some of it blew off but on the rest of my route, still had to go 25 km, people starred at me puzzled....;-)

Lou


Let's hope it was chalk...

Yeah I think is was. The stuff that you have to put over your lawn in the spring to restore the pH value. But I cleaned my bike right away when I arrived home and put my clothes in the washer and showered of course ;-)


Lou


More probably limestone (which isn't very different from
diatomacious earth)

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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971