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    My personal wool go-to has been a "stanny" ( https://stanfields.com/collections/m...ht-wool-henley ) and have been wearing the same one for 10 years now for bush work, chainsawing etc - it's the logging/fishing go-to clothing in West and East coast Canada. It's getting a bit see through after 10 years, but it's tough and warm. Takes a lot more abuse than my other knitted garments, don't know what makes it special.

    Have been thinking giving it a lanolin wash - spoke with a traditional cowichan sweater maker who had a lot to say about minimally processed wool and keeping the lanolin in the wool, or washing lanolin back into commercial wool to keep water resistant. Having worn a traditional cowichan sweater out in the rain I'm inclined to agree that lanolin does wonders for keeping wool from getting wet, but haven't gotten around to experimenting yet. Anyone wash lanolin into their wool stuff?
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    And I thought I had put the painful childhood memory of the white woolen short-sleeved singlets that I'm pretty sure were made of sandpaper, that my mum made me wear to primary school, behind me. I reckon if it was in modern times I could have reported her to Oranga Tamariki for child abuse...... Bloody itchy, scratchy shit things!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bumblefoot View Post
    And I thought I had put the painful childhood memory of the white woolen short-sleeved singlets that I'm pretty sure were made of sandpaper, that my mum made me wear to primary school, behind me. I reckon if it was in modern times I could have reported her to Oranga Tamariki for child abuse...... Bloody itchy, scratchy shit things!
    obviously a north islander
    down here in the south we wear barbed wire undies !
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    I bought raw lanolin grease, diluted it in white spirit then dipped my swannie, beanie and Norsewear fingerless gloves In the ‘soup’ then air dried them.

    Absolutely brilliant results for outer-layer clothing. Definitely shower proof and I felt the swannie held onto less water in a downpour too - but it would still be bloody heavy. Absolutely hell to wear next to your skin lol.

    I tried sourcing raw lanolin a couple of years back and really struggled to find any. It’s all exported and sold back to us as exhorbitantly-priced beauty products
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    I've got 50 bales in the shed you can have!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by gonetropo View Post
    obviously a north islander
    down here in the south we wear barbed wire undies !
    is that to repel unwanted attention from your uncle's?
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevodog View Post
    is that to repel unwanted attention from your uncle's?
    dont worry if your parents get divorced, they will still be cousins

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rangidan View Post
    I've got 50 bales in the shed you can have!!!!!

    Now you made me feel Guilty
    Wool should have a future use - why not use for insulation etc etc

    It is in my view still (like cotton) the best natural fibre on this Planet
    I even topped the Napier sale one year with my hogget clip (3.92kg per hogget) with exactly $4 per kg
    Robert Muldoon had topped it up with 24% SMP but !!

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    I often go to the saleyards and hear drystock farmers saying that people should be wearing more wool. While wearing their farm fleece tops......
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    @Sarvo Back in the day before witholding tax they reckon Muldoon was an expert possum trapper because every invoice receipt filled out by the fur buyer for the trapper was for Rob Muldoon.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by bumblefoot View Post
    @Sarvo Back in the day before witholding tax they reckon Muldoon was an expert possum trapper because every invoice receipt filled out by the fur buyer for the trapper was for Rob Muldoon.......
    I did a few in his name too
    Also C Cash was a fav

    " I love you Mr Langy - eah eah eah"
    Still my fav PM
    Shit-- that should fire up the WOKE brigade
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    Yeah, wool used to reign supreme. Back at the end of the century before last, just before the large Aussie sheep stations came on line, our wool was fetching $65/kg equivalent. Back then if you wanted to be warm, wool was the only option. That's why sheep farmers used to walk the fencelines picking the wool stuck on the barbed wire off and sticking it in their pockets. It was just worth so much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarvo View Post
    I did a few in his name too
    Also C Cash was a fav

    " I love you Mr Langy - eah eah eah"
    Still my fav PM
    Shit-- that should fire up the WOKE brigade
    i met rob muldoon once, he was the narrator in the nz stage version of rhps.
    he was damn good at it too
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    Quote Originally Posted by gonetropo View Post
    i met rob muldoon once, he was the narrator in the nz stage version of rhps.
    he was damn good at it too
    He was and still to this day the best
    He took no Prisoners

    I also still remember his final walk around the Beehive with a reporter
    He saw "exactly" what was coming and made no bones about women influencing Politics
    Oh - Oh - how right he was !!!!

    Flame away oh WOKE one's !!

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    Wool products should almost be free
    Our last shed full of wool sold for $1.18/kg
    Thats a new low

 

 

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