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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: kennym on October 22, 2016, 11:37:00 AM
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How's the best way to get em out, short of sitting and picking one at a time? :banghead:
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I found they come out easier if you freeze them. Maybe a dog hair brush would help.
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Thanks, anything has to help with the dang things!!
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Burrz-off (sp?) It's a type of stone, works great. Also a tick comb works well.
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Buy good wool with a tight knit. Fewer burrs stick to it and they come off with the metal dog comb.
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I find my KOM ,doesn't collect too many of them and they come out pretty easily.
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Wool and cockleburs were made for each other. i should change my handle to Johnny Cockleseed, there is a huge patch that i think I am responsible. It is where I pulled cockle burs off when I got to my favorite valley. It pulls off of whipcord better, but burs will stick to anything. Now those nasty tiny tick sized buggers that come off on a single thread sized stem. They have pretty little flowers in the summer that turn into little devils in the fall. I have given them many names, I am sure none of those names are the correct ones.
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Maybe Tick clover/Tick trefoil Pavan?
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Hate all those things! They do occupy my first 30-45 minutes of light in the stand though.
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Get a dog or cat ( i prefer the cat, its smaller with smaller teeth) curry comb, that thing that looks like a hacksaw blade bent in a near circle. I use that all the time.
CHuckC
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I just walk around them and problem solved :laughing: if it was only that easy! I usually just end up picking them off one by one.
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Got the wire dog brush and a table knife, now to get it done before it gets cold....
I try to walk around them but never succeed at it.LOL
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I wear gaiters to help below the knee. Then use a barbers comb (the small teeth to get the rest). and it works good.
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Kenny, Darrell said he just left his in from last year so he don't have to pick them out again. Maybe he has something there. Don't know. :knothead:
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LOL, tell him we will find him with his pants legs stuck together and will have to haul him somewhere to get surgically worked on so he can walk again...
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The Burrs-off stone works really well and lasts forever.
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Another burrs off fan. I have had one for years, they work great and are cheap... like me!
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Will the Burrs off work well on Berber clothing?
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Anyone? Thanks
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Originally posted by kennym:
LOL, tell him we will find him with his pants legs stuck together and will have to haul him somewhere to get surgically worked on so he can walk again...
Not sure if it's a good Dad thing to do but I'm still holding out for my 7 year old son to get in trouble good enough to make picking those things out his punishment. :biglaugh:
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LOL
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I gave up wearing my wool pants in the woods around here. I will carry them to my stand Kenny and put them on there but this time of year no way. Still wear it on my top half and get a few but not a big deal, usual don't need it till we hit the 20's anyway.
Tracy
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Legend has it that cockleburs and wool socks were the inspiration for the invention of Velcro.
:dunno:
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Furminators (a fine comb used for removing hair on cats and dogs) works pretty good for getting burrs out out of hunting clothes
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I just pull them off with my fingers. As a measure against them --- I mark them In the fall with flagging tape and then go back in summer and hit them with glyphosate. (Round up). Gotta nip it in the bud Andy.
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Dendy, we would have bare hunting areas if we sprayed all the burrs! LOL
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Wet them down and scrape. Dry I use the burz off stone. Works well. It does remove some wool too
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Everything I tried was taking off more wool than I like or not taking off any burrs. So the tried and true method of hand picking was used.
Had a pile of burrs and wool about the size of a small rat. LOL
I am so glad to not be a sheep! :laughing:
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Just wondered if you tried putting in a garbage bag, and then in the freezer. Something about cold makes them release, at least for me.
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Kenny, in prep for my up and coming hunt I wish you would put that wool back on and walk several times to the spots I usually hunt. What ya say?
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
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OK , if I can shoot the buck I got tied up for ya.... :D
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:nono: