Testing Saws In The Summer

[Terry Syd]

In my area of Oz there are the occasional ticks, but when the ground is wet the bloody leeches will get you. Gawd, I hate those things. The slimy little buggers will get inside your clothes and latch on to you, and you end up with a something resembling a large ugly sausage or a parasitic creature out of a horror movie hanging off of you. I came home one day from cutting with one of them hanging off my ear lobe like it was some sort of ornament, the wife completely freaked out.

Plus, where they latch on to you itches for at least 3 days (after you nuke the bastard with a load of salt). I pick up extra packets of salt when I stop by McDonalds for a cup of coffee.

 

[merc_man]

When you bathe, use Irish spring bar soap. The original green one. The ticks cant stand the scent.

Got some to try.

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[Steve]

The blue still works but not as well as the original green. I like the blue over the green as it doesnt leave your skin so dry.

This is what you want for maximum protection!

 

[Al Smith]

I don't get poison ivy but for those who do an old cure .Buy a bar of old fashion fels naptha bar laundry soap .It will dry it up .

 

[Lightning Performance]

No chance testing anything here with 100.0 °F. Way too hot guys.

What ? You think it's any nicer here? GFY

 

[Czed]

The blue still works but not as well as the original green. I like the blue over the green as it doesnt leave your skin so dry.

This is what you want for maximum protection!View attachment 81233

Great I've been using Irish spring for decade's that's good to know.

 

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

It's been over 100 here in Southern Oregon, hell even when I go outside from the shop to test equipment they seem to not like to run. haha Yesterday it was 113 outside........everything I tuned ran fine for awhile...but then it seems like the carbs were vapor locking. Just to dang hot.

 

[Johnmn]

Wow 113! Here in northern MN it's been 85 and I feel like dieing! But it's what we get used to. We have extreme weather here it was 85 today it's now 49! Feels great except it's raining

 

[RandyMac]

The inland valleys of NorCal and SoOre are cooking, it is 67 here, go 15 miles east to find highs 90s, another 20 miles east are 110+

My blood is thin from getting old and living on the coast, don't care for being hot, wasn't always that way.

 

[Brush Ape]

One time a tick bit me and it got lyme disease.

 

[JT78]

Yeah been hot here too just don't feel like messing with any saws when it's over 90 and as far as ticks go yeah I try to use off but still got bit and ended up with lymes and a round of antibiotics winter time is so much better than summer in the south!!

 

[nickw]

I test saws here,

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I hate ticks,
I used that same product a few months back helping cut a ditch bank off. Qt size was only good for 2 changes of clothes but it got me through that job.
Other guy that was cutting with me had ticks on him every day, I didn't have a one.

I bought the industrial strength (36.8%) later and mix 2-3 oz/ gal of water and soak clothes in it, wring out and let dry. Good for 6 or so washings.

Where do you find the industrial strength stuff?

 

[Glock37]

It just makes my ass wetter. All that sweat just collects there.

Thats called Swamp Ass !


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[super3]

Where do you find the industrial strength stuff?

http://pestcontrol.domyownpestcontrol.com/search?view=grid&w=permethrin

 

[XP_Slinger]

Damn ticks actually get worse in the fall up here. I can't go hunting without spotting one on my leg or something.

 

[Mastermind]

Damn ticks actually get worse in the fall up here. I can't go hunting without spotting one on my leg or something.

Chiggers are like that here. It's as if they know they only got a little while longer to eat you up.

 

[XP_Slinger]

Little pricks like to try and ruin one of my favorite times of the year.

 

[Nitehawk55]

What the heck are chiggers , I don't think we get them up here .

 

[GCJenks204]

What the heck are chiggers , I don't think we get them up here .

We don't and I am very happy about that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombiculidae

 

[Nitehawk55]

We don't and I am very happy about that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombiculidae

Yes we are !! . look like nasty little critters

I recall hearing another term for a bug when I was touring around SC and area some years back and those were called "no-see-ums" , which they were because something would bite you and I never saw what it was