Something buzzing in my lawn!
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"Frozen sausages buried in your lawn make a buzzing sound when they thaw out"
I'm actually rendered almost speechless by that statement. So many questions.
Why would you bury frozen sausages in your lawn? did the dog do it ?
Why would you attribute a buzzing sound to a lump of frozen meat defrosting? my hung over engineers brain is struggling to work out a mechanism that would cause that to happen. The only thing I can think of is some stresses being caused by differential thermal expansion going on.
Are we talking Chipolatas, Lincolnshire, cheap Tesco/not much meat sausages or posh Waitrose apple & organic free range Ostrich meat Sausages?
Does the percentage meat content affect the frequency of the buzzing?
Should the sausages be cooked or raw?
What depth do they need to be at?
What density/type of soil do you need?
Should the soil be dry or wet?
Are the sausages still attached to each other?
Apologies for all the questions, I have spent most of the Easter holidays "encouraging" my eldest with his GCSE revision. I'm in the groove now.
Anyway, it's probably just an alien probe assessing whether you are worth saving or assimilating when the invasion comes. Have fun.
I'm actually rendered almost speechless by that statement. So many questions.
Why would you bury frozen sausages in your lawn? did the dog do it ?
Why would you attribute a buzzing sound to a lump of frozen meat defrosting? my hung over engineers brain is struggling to work out a mechanism that would cause that to happen. The only thing I can think of is some stresses being caused by differential thermal expansion going on.
Are we talking Chipolatas, Lincolnshire, cheap Tesco/not much meat sausages or posh Waitrose apple & organic free range Ostrich meat Sausages?
Does the percentage meat content affect the frequency of the buzzing?
Should the sausages be cooked or raw?
What depth do they need to be at?
What density/type of soil do you need?
Should the soil be dry or wet?
Are the sausages still attached to each other?
Apologies for all the questions, I have spent most of the Easter holidays "encouraging" my eldest with his GCSE revision. I'm in the groove now.
Anyway, it's probably just an alien probe assessing whether you are worth saving or assimilating when the invasion comes. Have fun.
Tempest_5 said:
"Frozen sausages buried in your lawn make a buzzing sound when they thaw out"
I'm actually rendered almost speechless by that statement. So many questions.
Why would you bury frozen sausages in your lawn? did the dog do it ?
Why would you attribute a buzzing sound to a lump of frozen meat defrosting? my hung over engineers brain is struggling to work out a mechanism that would cause that to happen. The only thing I can think of is some stresses being caused by differential thermal expansion going on.
Are we talking Chipolatas, Lincolnshire, cheap Tesco/not much meat sausages or posh Waitrose apple & organic free range Ostrich meat Sausages?
Does the percentage meat content affect the frequency of the buzzing?
Should the sausages be cooked or raw?
What depth do they need to be at?
What density/type of soil do you need?
Should the soil be dry or wet?
Are the sausages still attached to each other?
Apologies for all the questions, I have spent most of the Easter holidays "encouraging" my eldest with his GCSE revision. I'm in the groove now.
Anyway, it's probably just an alien probe assessing whether you are worth saving or assimilating when the invasion comes. Have fun.
You're right to ask. A study was done across the UK on various ground types to get a better picture of this phenomenon. The study found that the buzzing noise was indeed the thawing out of the frozen meat. It concluded that only on sausages with a meat content over 40% would the buzzing noise happen. The break down of the meat to breadcrumb ratio from frozen to raw whilst held in a steady state of 12 degrees allowed the molecular structure of the sausage to vibrate as being buried (tight structure with no lateral movement) created this very rare occurance. I'm actually rendered almost speechless by that statement. So many questions.
Why would you bury frozen sausages in your lawn? did the dog do it ?
Why would you attribute a buzzing sound to a lump of frozen meat defrosting? my hung over engineers brain is struggling to work out a mechanism that would cause that to happen. The only thing I can think of is some stresses being caused by differential thermal expansion going on.
Are we talking Chipolatas, Lincolnshire, cheap Tesco/not much meat sausages or posh Waitrose apple & organic free range Ostrich meat Sausages?
Does the percentage meat content affect the frequency of the buzzing?
Should the sausages be cooked or raw?
What depth do they need to be at?
What density/type of soil do you need?
Should the soil be dry or wet?
Are the sausages still attached to each other?
Apologies for all the questions, I have spent most of the Easter holidays "encouraging" my eldest with his GCSE revision. I'm in the groove now.
Anyway, it's probably just an alien probe assessing whether you are worth saving or assimilating when the invasion comes. Have fun.
MDMA . said:
You're right to ask. A study was done across the UK on various ground types to get a better picture of this phenomenon. The study found that the buzzing noise was indeed the thawing out of the frozen meat. It concluded that only on sausages with a meat content over 40% would the buzzing noise happen. The break down of the meat to breadcrumb ratio from frozen to raw whilst held in a steady state of 12 degrees allowed the molecular structure of the sausage to vibrate as being buried (tight structure with no lateral movement) created this very rare occurance.
Yes that was it .! That's what someone once told me .
The question is do you have an internationally recognised standard sausage to gauge it against ? Does it conform to the requirements for SI units?
You'll have the weights and measures people around if they find your sausage isn't up to standard.
Best to leave it in the ground and ignore it. You can always dig it up if you run out of food at the next barbie.
You'll have the weights and measures people around if they find your sausage isn't up to standard.
Best to leave it in the ground and ignore it. You can always dig it up if you run out of food at the next barbie.
MDMA . said:
You're right to ask. A study was done across the UK on various ground types to get a better picture of this phenomenon. The study found that the buzzing noise was indeed the thawing out of the frozen meat. It concluded that only on sausages with a meat content over 40% would the buzzing noise happen. The break down of the meat to breadcrumb ratio from frozen to raw whilst held in a steady state of 12 degrees allowed the molecular structure of the sausage to vibrate as being buried (tight structure with no lateral movement) created this very rare occurance.
What sausage has a meat content under 40%
t from the same source.WelshChris said:
This thread is a huge disappointment to me. I was expecting at least a "thirty-pager" with regular updates including pics of trenches dug into the lawn etc. German tunnel mark 2. Hopefully the buzzing will start again soon and thorough investigations will take place 
Dig a hole and fit a pool (in 3 weeks). The boiler noise should block out the buzzing.funkyrobot said:
spangle82 said:
Was picking a few bits of twig out of the mower when I heard a faint buzzing sound. Traced it to an area of lawn about 3x3" - defo buzzing! Got a small trowel and started investigating, dug around to about 2" down but didnt want to be too rough in case I killed whatever it was. Kept poking around, still a definite buzzing but stopped before I damaged the lawn too much. It was a bit lower than mains hum so I'd say about 40Hz, and quite constant. Any ideas please?
You don't use a mower to trim trees.
(I thought it was funny anyway).
Lemming Train said:
funkyrobot said:
spangle82 said:
Was picking a few bits of twig out of the mower when I heard a faint buzzing sound. Traced it to an area of lawn about 3x3" - defo buzzing! Got a small trowel and started investigating, dug around to about 2" down but didnt want to be too rough in case I killed whatever it was. Kept poking around, still a definite buzzing but stopped before I damaged the lawn too much. It was a bit lower than mains hum so I'd say about 40Hz, and quite constant. Any ideas please?
You don't use a mower to trim trees.(I thought it was funny anyway).
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