Woodsie
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Post by Woodsie on Jul 26, 2015 13:09:39 GMT -8
I went on a 2-night backpack trip this week (see Trip Reports). Today I have been cleaning up my gear, and ended up with pine sap on my hands. I washed them with soap and water - sap remained. So I pulled out the jar of peanut butter and rubbed some on my hands. It worked like a charm! I've always heard that peanut butter is good for sap removal, but never tried it until today. Now I need to figure out how to get the sap off my rain poncho. I don't really want it to smell like peanut butter... |
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tigger
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Post by tigger on Jul 26, 2015 13:16:57 GMT -8
Vegetable oil also works
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Post by zeke on Jul 26, 2015 13:55:36 GMT -8
Put the coat in the freezer. Break off the frozen sap. Scrape off the remaining sap. After all of that, oil may help with the residue.
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Post by desert dweller on Jul 27, 2015 6:35:25 GMT -8
This has nothing to do with sap or peanut butter.
But, for those who work on vehicles, keep some cheap vegetable oil on hand. Before you try to clean your hands with Goop, or whatever, take the vegetable oil and work it into your grease/oil stained hands. The grease will dissolve into the vegetable oil. Then wash your hands with dishwashing detergent like Dawn. 99 percent of the black grease will be gone.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 27, 2015 7:34:10 GMT -8
That's a good tip, DD. I'll try to remember it next time I'm working on my bike. I have a tendency to do that just before School Board meetings, and show up with grease still in all the little cracks and wrinkles on my hands! I never remember, but I've also read the recommendation to drag the fingernails over a bar of soap first--then the gaps under the nails can't get full of grease, and the soap of course washes right out.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2015 7:58:32 GMT -8
Ah, thanks for the home remedies. Got any ideas on how to cure old age?
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Post by desert dweller on Jul 27, 2015 8:13:04 GMT -8
Ah, thanks for the home remedies. Got any ideas on how to cure old age? Beer, bicycling, attitude. |
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 27, 2015 16:19:26 GMT -8
Ah, thanks for the home remedies. Got any ideas on how to cure old age? Beer, bicycling, attitude. Yeah, that. A LOT of attitude. |
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Post by Grizzly James on Jul 29, 2015 19:24:26 GMT -8
Well I'll be...
Now before I get to the heady matters of peanut butter and hygiene, (howdy woodsie), I must belch forth the following - "Where in the heck am I !?"
I know I've been absent a bit, or maybe even more than a bit, but I've finally managed to find my way over to these new digital digs. Not too shabby. And a functional pixel ghetto to be sure. Anyways...
So you're saying when sapped up, wash thy hands accordingly in peanut butter...Yeah, nothing quite so fine in grizzly country as strutting about your encampment smelling akin to a jar of extra chunky skippy. Even so, I'll have to try it sometime and see for myself.
Anyways, speaking of peanut butter. It was a routine fart, I swear. I know stories that start out with "it was a routine fart" seldom go any place wholesome, and I doubt this one will either, but here goes regardless. It was routine, at least that's how it started. A simple popping sound, followed nicely by a soft, sustained flutter. I thought nothing of it. I was in the office managing a bit of papers when it happened. But lo, something felt off, and I wasn't sure what. That is until I got up to check the fax machine, and noticed then, much to my dismay, that my boxer shorts weren't dropping as I was accustomed to. Gravity, it seemed, had pardoned me this moment in time. An eyebrow raised, as well as my inherent curiosity on the matter. My eyes darted about the office like a bad puppy. So I sidled nonchalantly into the rest room, avoiding eye contact with any body or anything. And there in the privacy and such I took a gander in my shorts... Yup, reminded me of peanut butter, the smooth kind, tho a might ranker. A humbling divot of it residing point blank in my boxers. The ones with a photo of Ben Franklin imposed over a hundred dollar bill. I liked them shorts too. And now they had gone afoul. It was bad enough, in point of fact, I just had to go home and take care of it. Old Ben was disgraced, as was I, finally tossing the under garment into the trash.
Take from this what life lessons you will.
Toodaloo
-GJ
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Post by llamero on Jul 29, 2015 20:27:05 GMT -8
Well done sir. Nicely told story with vivid imagery. Probably won't be having any PBJ sandwiches for a while.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 29, 2015 21:48:47 GMT -8
GJ! Great to see you made it! Your voice has been missed.
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Post by Grizzly James on Jul 30, 2015 6:25:22 GMT -8
rebeccad! Thank you kindly.
llamero, come on, hang in there, and let not vivid imagery squelch your love for pb&j! Or hundred dollar bills for that matter.
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Post by llamero on Jul 30, 2015 7:10:06 GMT -8
I adore $100 bills. Lately I've been handing those out like Halloween candy.
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